My Chinatown, With Aloha

Directed by Kimberlee Bassford · 2022

A fourth-generation Chinese American filmmaker traces her family's ties to Honolulu's Chinatown and compares the 1899 plague with the COVID-19 pandemic.

A personal documentary linking two epidemics a century apart through one Honolulu neighborhood.

Fourth-generation Chinese American Kimberlee Bassford explores her family’s relationship to Honolulu's Chinatown and examines the parallels between the pandemic and the 1899 plague, and how the crises transformed the nei

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