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“If you do not look at where you came from, you can never reach your destination.” #TheAListHBO: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas premieres tonight on @hbomax .

[UPDATE: SOLD OUT] Join us and @hbo next Wednesday, May 13, for a special screening of "The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas." A moving installment in "The List" documentary series, this film brings together a tableau of voices to explore the themes of #representation, belonging, and what it means to be #AAPI in America. The screening will be followed by a moderated discussion led by award-winning journalist Richard Lui (@richardlui ), with Director Eugene Yi (@anothereugeneyi ), Executive Producer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (@tgs ), and film participants DJ Rekha (@djrekha ), and Madelyn Yu. Spots are filling up fast! Register at the link in our bio! 🎥💙 #aapiheritagemonth #aapirepresentation #asiasociety

Hey LA! May 1 at 6pm will be the Los Angeles premiere of "The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas," at the Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival. All tickets are available online only, so please grab yours at /2026/ This year's festival is dedicated to cultivating joy and wellness within ourselves and our communities, and that theme aligns beautifully with what we hope our film does as well. Making the film has been an exercise in community building, and we hope that comes across to you all as well! The entire slate looks incredible, with more than 100 filmmakers' work being screened. Come through to as many as you can! And a huge applause to the whole team at VC, for carrying forward the mission of an organization that means so much to us all. festival.vcmedia.org/2026 #LAAPFF2026 #LAAPFF Portraits by @tgs | Courtesy HBO

Fifteen stories. One shared humanity. From director Eugene Yi and Executive Producer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, #TheAListHBO: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas premieres May 13 on @hbomax . Portraits by @tgs

Opening night! I’m overjoyed and humbled to share that “The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas” will be opening this year’s edition of CAAMFest. Every exercise in list-making is not just about who’s on the list, but who gets left off. We tried as best we could to be mindful of past erasures in creating our group portrait, knowing that we could not help but create new ones as we went. It’s the nature of the exercise, and we strived to tread carefully. So it’s a tremendous honor to have our film be invited to open up CAAMFest. The festival is near and dear to my heart, having had the fortune to screen past work there. And it’s gratifying to know that our work passes muster in our communities. The community, in the end, is the most important audience for any film, and this one in particular. So it’s an honor for Don Young, CAAM and the team of brilliant folks there to honor us with this slot. And I have to thank the 15 amazing individuals who shared their time with us, and told us about some of their best days, and some of their worst. Their trust is what gives the film its heart and its soul. DP @naushero Editor Johanna Giebelhaus Music by Gene Back Producers Chad Thompson, @alphajada , myself EP @tgs Associate Editor Anita H.M. Yu Consulting Editor @jeantsien ACE Arhicval Producer @tamtam.chu Additional Photography @jucliu Unit photography @unknown_reflections Executive Producers for HBO Nancy Abraham Lisa Heller Tina Nguyen Studio portraits by @tgs

More festival updates! "The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas" will be screening at the Milwaukee Film Festival. 4/18 Downer Theater - North Cinema at 7pm 4/19 Oriental (!) Theater - Herzfeld Cinema (East) at 4:45pm Link for tickets below. I'll be in attendance, so I'm excited to share these amazing stories with folks in Wisconsin! One of our interviewees grew up there, and so it'll be an especially meaningful time there! /films/69b4328108e40294f2a6a56b/ Portaits by @tgs of course!

So, in other news: another film I directed, “THE A LIST: 15 Stories of Asian and Pacific Diasporas” will be premiering at @docnycfest next month! 7pm NOV 17 @ifccenter 9pm NOV 19 @villageeastbyangelika Tickets on sale now! /websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=521974~bd725d56-8b11-414c-8cda-9ccb2ad3128d& I’ll be at both screenings, along with executive producer @tgs , producer and interviewer @alphajada , and other members of the filmmaking team, so come through and say hi! The film is the latest in the “List” series, created by EP @tgs , and features short profiles of 15 remarkable people from the communities that get lumped under one of the many umbrella terms that have been applied to us: Asian American, API, AAPI, AANHPI, APIDA, and more. Some of our participants are well-known, in the public eye; others, a bit less so. But they all have a story to tell, and we’re honored to share them. When we put this film together, we couldn’t have imagined all that would be going on now, in the country and in the world. But it’s made me all the more grateful to the 15 remarkable people who shared their stories with us. It reminded me of how important our stories are, now more than ever. And all the thanks in the world to the talented list of artists and creatives, many from AANHPI communities, who helped bring the film together. I really treasured the collaborations in this project, and I’ve listed them below in comments, because of character limits! Studio portraits courtesy of @tgs