“we are young / so let’s set the world on fire / we can burn brighter / than the sun”

[larryhammer]

So last night, our local Chinese Cultural Center screened four short films by Asian-American makers, including the premiere of Young Lions, a documentary about Eaglet’s youth Lion Dance troupe — focused on different aspects of carrying on the tradition, with the hook of the challenges of reconstituting after a two-year pause for Covid-19. The interviews are with the leaders and teachers, but Eaglet appears in training and performing scenes, ETA: and in the credits.

Here’s the poster, which includes Eaglet’s partner as the boy in the lower right:



More information. No information yet when/how it will be available for a wider viewership.

It was filmed two years ago, so Eaglet looks so young to me now, but it was still way cool to watch.

---L.

Subject quote from We Are Young, Fun. feat. Janelle Monáe.