Project Proposal

Perhaps my project should focus more on the way history is taught and why I feel excluded from parts of the American timeline simply because my immediate lineage is not involved in it. Is there any way in which I could set up a creative program for Americans to interact with history which they may feel excluded from simply because their skin color or immediate culture does not reflect what has occurred in our collective history?

1. Mission Statement/ Point of Departure

To explore the differences in American history and what ties all of us together with a special focus on the shared history of Asian Americans

à point of departure: what truly separates each individual, how is their personal history a smaller part of a greater schema, how do their emotions, actions and heritage effect every other American? Is there a spiritual journey which mirrors the historical facts of American history? How do I tap this spirit and see how it wraps around Asian American film? A creative film project which would be shown at a series of random areas to help educate and change perspectives.

àQuestions to answer: Who am I? How do I encounter history?

2. Master Calendar

February: Begin filming

March 1-8: write narration and begin to edit film material

March 10-22: come up with formal presentation of the film and how this concocted project could be implemented in today’s society

April: presentation

3. Post Completion

This project will fit into a life-long study of humans, their social interactions as well as the shared history of all Americans. To effect change, you must first change people and in order to do that, the mentality and mindset of each “individual” heritage must be laid to rest if cultural unity will every overcome the common American. We must stop thinking of ourselves as separate pieces of a whole pie

à also the effect that this education will have on my life will change my perspective and the way I treat/look at other people from different backgrounds from myself.