For Monday: Meet the Filmmaker and Watch Footage from the Upcoming Jazz Documentary, FRED HO’S LAST YEAR

LECTURE AND SCREENING

Students interested in ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES, JAZZ STUDIES and DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING should attend this event.  

Experience a unique chapter in the history of Jazz, learn about the struggles and victories of an Asian American artist with advanced-stage cancer, and get a first-hand understanding of how a documentary filmmaker overcomes technical and legal hurdles to bring an archival research project to the screen.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Less than a year ago, filmmaker Steven De Castro came across Fred Ho’s autobiographical book, Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior, at a local bookstore.  Steve called Fred for an interview, having met him many years before. First motivated to chronicle one man’s struggle against cancer, Steve got more than he bargained for: a story of an asian american artist who refuses categorization, and destroys your preconceptions about life and death, art and love.  

As a result of his research at the University of Connecticut, Steven De Castro completed production on a new feature-length jazz documentary entitled FRED HO’s LAST YEAR.

This documentary is part of a transmedia project, DISCOVERFREDHO.ORG.

This lecture is made possible by the ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE, THOMAS J. DODD RESEARCH CENTER, FRED HO FELLOWSHIP, and the STROCHLICH TRAVEL GRANT.