PJ Raval (he/they)
Associate Professor of Film Production, Department of Radio, Television, and Film
This conversation took place on October 20, 2023 at the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas in Austin, TX. At the time of recording, CAAS was located in Bellmont 220.
Additional Resources
Baldoz, Rick. The Third Asiatic Invasion: Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1898-1946. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
Kramer, Paul. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. Durham: University of North California Press, 2006.
Meissner, Nico. Independent Filmmaking in South East Asia: Conversations with Filmmakers on Building and Sustaining a Creative Career. London: Routledge, 2021.
Okada, Jun. Making Asian American Film and Video: Histories, Institutions, Movements. New Brunswick/London: Rutgers University Press, 2015.
Raval, PJ, director. Who We Become. Unraval Pictures, 2023.
Asian Relations is a series of conversations recorded in the Fall 2023 semester at the Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) and the Asian American Resource Center (AARC) in Austin, TX. Led by CCI researcher Dr. Allison Kim (she/her), these conversations follow the stories of nine UT students, faculty, staff, and alumni concerning their identification with and connection to the AANHPI communities. This research-based project is conversational in tone, leaning into subjective experience and drawing out the relational moments between individuals.relational moments between individuals.
