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HEAR, EAT, HOME
Online & In-Person Exhibition
Summer 2024
HEAR, EAT, HOME is a (work-in-progress) documentary film project that creates common space and harmony with our neighbors


Director: Hsuan Yu Pan

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Story

Hear, Eat, Home features several creative musicians and visual artists from diverse backgrounds who have made a living in the USA. With composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh as the film's spiritual center, they explore themes of conflict, displacement, and identity through their poignant art and expressive collaborations. They also bond over homemade food from their homelands, creating a bittersweet collage that reflects the human experience in an increasingly challenging world.

“Individual stories change people’s views.”

-Deema & Farrah, Co-Founders of Immigrants Act Now-
 

Key Message
Communicate and collaborate with your neighbors. Let us share immigrants’ hopes, dreams, and challenges in the US and remember their cultural identities through family stories. We want to help immigrants build self-esteem so they can care for themselves and look out for their neighbors regardless of the differences in cultures, religions, and everything that divides people.

Key Participants
Left to right: Kinan Azmeh (Composer & Clarinetist, Syria), Kevork Mourad (Visual Artist, Syria), Kaoru Watanabe (Composer & Musician, USA) Irian Sheynfeld (Visual Artist, Ukraine), and Alex Pryrodny (Composer & Pianist, Ukraine) 
Key Film Team Members
Left to right: Hsuan Yu Pan (Director & Producer), George Hirose (Executive Producer), Nancy Wolfe (Producer), and Greg Mocker (Producer)

Director Bio

New York City-based Taiwanese American documentary filmmaker Hsuan Yu Pan loves to explore human stories through her lens. She is a segment producer at BRIC TV, a community TV station in Brooklyn, from 2011 to 2020. While making her first feature documentary film HEAR, EAT, HOME since 2017, she has directed more than 4 documentary short films that tell immigrant stories. They were selected at numerous film festivals nationwide and internationally. Pan continues to make films and tell immigrant stories to raise awareness of immigrants’ rights.

Director Statement 

Regardless of where we come from, living in NYC makes us neighbors, and we can engage in conversations and discussions to find solutions and harmony. I hope that HEAR, EAT, HOME can bring immigrants from diverse cultures together and amplify our voices to improve our society.

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Screeners

Hear, Eat, Home is a project that includes several short documentary films and one feature-length documentary film.

The short films were free to watch in person on June 14 & 16 and online before August. 

They are currently available for rental online. Kinan's Vision is free to watch online for a limited time.
The work-in-progress screening of the feature film was in person only on June 15.

Please contact us if you are interested in hosting screenings.

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Short Film Filmography

The Other Side of the Sea  (2023)
Immigrant artists and musicians in New York City collaborate in actions to respond to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Izmir International Refugee Film Festival   Turkey 2023
Taiwanese American Arts Council FROM  ISLAND TO ISLAND   NYC 2023      

Crafts that Unite, Heal, and Last Exhibition at Livrustkammaren, Stockholm Design Week   Sweden 2023

Hear, Eat, Home:  Kinan’s Vision  (2020)
Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh shares his idea about home and identities.

Lower East Side Festival of the Arts NYC 2024 

The Très Court International Film Festival France 2024  

Taiwanese American Arts Council FROM  ISLAND TO ISLAND NYC 2023  

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) 10 Minutes Film Festival  NYC 2022      

Filmfest Bremen   Germany 2021 

MINIKINO FILM WEEK   Indonesia 2021
 

My Mother’s Table (2019)
Kurdish refugees, a mother, and her daughter, introduce their hometown, Aleppo, Syria, with their passion for cooking.

American Documentary Film Festival   CA 2020
Sunnyside International Film Festival   NYC 2020 

Seoul International Food Film Festival   Korea 2020 
SorsiCorti Short Film Festival   Italy 2020 

Izmir International Refugee Film Festival   Turkey 2020  

Shinobu (2018)
Shinobue (Japanese flute)-making master Ranjo and musician Kaoru Watanabe share their stories about the joy of music and life while making the flutes.

Ocean City Film Festival   MD 2020
MINIKINO FILM WEEK   Indonesia 2018   
SPLICE Film Fest   NYC 2018  

Barcelona Planet Film Festival   Spain 2018
Portobello Film Festival   UK 2018  
     

Behind the Scenes (2016-present)