Exploring childhood memories of a movie theater in San Diego that once screened films for Chinese American moviegoers in the early 1990s, GOODBYE FIESTA TWIN CINEMA weaves together family history and personal trauma with meditations on loneliness, haunting, and the power of cinematic image.

Goodbye Fiesta Twin Cinema
Directed By Danielle Seid
USA | Documentary | 15 min
World Premiere
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English
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World Premiere
2024
15 minutes
Experimental
Documentary
USA
Danielle Seid
Born and raised in southern California, Danielle Seid now resides in Honolulu, where she is an assistant professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her scholarly interests include Asian and Asian American film and television, popular culture, and queer and trans media. Currently, she is completing a monograph on Asian American women on network television from 1950-1995, and beginning work on an experimental memoir that combines personal writing with historical research on Chinese American girls and women during the exclusion era.
Danielle Seid
Danielle Seid
Danielle Seid