Where You From?: The Search for a Filipino-American Identity

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ALEJANDRO FILMS’ DOCUSERIES PROJECT WHERE YOU FROM? IS SELECTED TO BE A PART OF THE CNN ORIGINAL SERIES + FILM INDEPENDENT DOCUSERIES INTENSIVE.

Title: Where You From? The Search for a Filipino-American Cultural Identity

  • Writer/Producer: Dani de Jesus

  • Director/Writer/Producer: Leslie Alejandro

  • Logline: The rise and fall of Filipino gangs. Overshadowed by the Crips and Bloods, Filipino Americans had a defining cultural moment in 1980s/90s Los Angeles. This series is an intimate look at how the youth of an immigrant community—the Filipino Gangs of Los Angeles—were simultaneously rebelling against the Asian “model minority” myth while struggling to create their own cultural identity as Americans.

Read the announcement here.

Dani de Jesus