First Vote

Asian American Voters in Battleground States

Overview

A soon-to-be first-time voter, the filmmaker’s thought-provoking journey into the Rust Belt and South captures four Asian American voters’ ardent first time grassroots political participation ignited by the 2016 rise of “Chinese Americans for Trump.” FIRST VOTE is a character driven cinema verité style film chronicling the democratic participation of four Asian American voters from 2016 through the 2018 midterm elections.

Production

Ford Foundation - Just Films, Open Society Foundations, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), ITVS, C35 Films