About HEAR, EAT, HOME
Directed by New York–based Taiwanese filmmaker Hsuan Yu Pan over the course of ten years, HEAR, EAT, HOME follows international artists and musicians in New York City as they navigate turbulence and cultural displacement. Through music, food, and collective memory, they reclaim and redefine the meaning of "home" in a foreign land.
More than a document of resilience, this film is a love letter to everyone keeping their cultural roots alive.
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Artists & Collaborators
Syrian Clarinetist & Composer
Kinan Azmeh
Syrian-Armenian Visual Artist
Kevork Mourad
Japanese American Musician & Composer
Kaoru Watanabe
Ukrainian Visual Artist
Irina Sheynfeld
Ukrainian Pianist & Composer
Alex Pryrodny
Lebanese Musician
Hadi Eldebek
American Percussionist & Composer
Shane Shanahan
Taiko Community Supporter
Mari Nakano
Master Shinobue Craftsman
Ranjo (Ransho)
Taiko Artist (Miyake Taiko)
Hidenori Tsumura
Former Drum Leader,
Chichibu Yomatsuri Kamimachi Yatai-bayashi Preservation Society
Toshio Takahashi
Armenian-American Musician & Artist
Anaïs Alexandra Tekerian
The Brooklyn Nomads
Founders| Hadi Eldebek & Mohamad Eldebek
Kinan Azmeh CityBand
Kinan Azmeh, Kyle Sanna,Josh Myers &John Hadfield
Director & Producers
Director
Hsuan Yu Pan
Executive Producer
George Hirose
Producer
Nancy Wolfe
Producer
Julie Ø. McElmurry
Associate Prodcer
Fung Chern Hwei
Associate Prodcer
Mitsuhiro Honda
Executive Producer, The Other Side of the Sea (Ukraine Chapter)
Jocelyn Hudon
10 Years of Journey
Production Team
DP
Hsuan Yu Pan
Christopher Bye
Michael Capasso
Simon Yu
Tariq Khan
Additional Camera & Behind the Scenes
Mitsuhiro Honda
Ken Arakagi
Chen-Yi Wu
Emmanuel Alexandre Jr.
Production Team
Sound (Field Recording)
Kip Sturm
William Hsieh
Simon Yu
Production Assistant
Noriko Sakamoto (also DIT)
Amogh Agarwal
Associate Producer (Development)
Nicky Ruan
Intern
Tristan Isaiah Flores
Post Production Team
Editor
Hsuan Yu Pan
Additional Editor
John Murchison
Animation
Peter Parlegreco
Puppetry
Spica & John Wobbe
Title Animation
Kevork Mourad
Title Design
Hong Da Guo
Sound Designer
Chou Chen
William Hsieh
Color
CY Chu
Consultantion
Creativity
Yoni Golijov
Martijn te Pas
Paradiddle Pictures
Impact & Outreach
Lisa Allen
Peter Forbes McDowell
Show & Tell
Funding & Support
Grants Received
NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts)
NYFA (Queens Arts Fund, administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts)
Fiscal Sponsor
Women Make Movies (WMM)
Special Thanks
Title (English)
Hear, Eat, Home by Dave Eggar
Title (Japanese )
煙立つ、
耳を澄ませるとき、
そこにわが家を認めるby Mitsuhiro Honda
George Hirose, Jean Huang, Julie Ø. McElmurry, Greg Mocker, Shihan Kai Leung, Morgan Neville, Frank Scheffer, Hiroko Suda, Jeff Strickland, Sabi, Birgit Nagele, Emilia Bajkowska - Quinn, Yoanna Davinci, Li-Yung Huang, Szu-Yu Pan & family, Yonghu Chang, KC Trommer, Lorena Galliot, Atu Ram, Pitayaporn Rodriguez, Dr. Steve Gettinger, Ssu Han Wang, Dominic Wong, and many more.
A Collective Memory of Diaspora Communities
Community Gratitude
Silkroad, Razom For Ukraine, Kai Leung's Shotojuku, Taiwan Center, Taiwan Union Church, BRIC TV, FilmShop, Asian American Documentary Network, Brown Girl Doc Mafia, The D-Word, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Café Philo ＠ NY, Healing Arts Network, The Brooklyn Nomads, Tea, Art and Culture, Immigrants Act Now, ARTTEN GALLERY, Sahara Shisha Cafe, Soap Box Gallery, Veselka, Forrest Park Qigong, Taiwan Pen Club, 世界台灣文化論壇， and many more.