CAAMFest 2024: Out/Here Shorts Program

Out/Here has been a vital institution celebrating queer stories and storytellers at CAAMFest for over a decade. This year, we’re thinking about the social and emotional landscape of gender. How do our experiences of gender shape the relationships with ourselves and others?

Expected Guests in Attendance: Director Emory Chao Johnson (默 (To Write from Memory)), Director Hao Zhou (Wouldn’t Make it Any Other Way), Marc Marcos (Wouldn’t Make it Any Other Way)

MOONCAKE
DIRECTED BY RRAINE HANSON
A theatrical and collagic exploration of childhood fantasies set in Manhattan Chinatown.

SQUEEGEE BOY
DIRECTED BY CHUNG-WEI HUANG
A trans Asian American preteen finds friendship among squeegee boys, with whom issues of race and gender collide.

默 (TO WRITE FROM MEMORY)
DIRECTED BY EMORY CHAO JOHNSON
A mother’s alienating treatment of her child’s transness serves as a soundtrack to the rituals of daily life for a young person growing into their adult life.

THE PERFORMANCE
DIRECTED BY CLAIRE ZHOU
In a coming out of her own, an immigrant mother navigates her religious community’s disapproval of her child’s gender expression.

RETRIEVAL
DIRECTED BY FATIMAH ASGHAR
In a soul retrieval at the threshold of fantasy and reality, a young woman retraces a moment frozen in time to recover her past self from sexual trauma.

WOULDN’T MAKE IT ANY OTHER WAY
DIRECTED BY HAO ZHOU
The colorful queer life of a sewing virtuoso in Iowa is punctuated by their return home to Guam.