Photo: Peter Dowling
I had a great time interviewing local filmmaker, photographer, and community builder Pete Lee for Issue 3 of New Life Quarterly. Check it out in print or online.
Sometimes, Pete told me, he needed to ask his crew, “White people also do this, right? And they’d all be like, ‘Yes.’ As an Asian-American filmmaker, you’re very wary of someone not getting your culture right.” Pete didn’t want to turn around and do the same thing even if, we agree, white people are over-represented in popular culture. “I still feel like I have a responsibility to reflect things honestly.”
