Angeline Gragasin
Angeline Gragasin is a Filipino American writer, filmmaker, and artist who tells stories about ecology, memory, and power. She has been a finalist for the Tribeca Sloan Award, the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Sundance New Frontier Lab, and the Borscht Corp “No Bro Zone” grant. Her short film “Yanvalou” (2017) has screened internationally at BAM, Cucalorus, Clermont-Ferrand, Zinebi, and Jumping Frames Hong Kong, among others. She was recently interviewed for the podcast “Asian, Not Asian” where she discusses growing up as a 2nd generation mixed race Asian American in Wisconsin, and was commissioned by The Creative Independent to write an essay on her creative practice, forthcoming Fall 2019. Gragasin lives and works in New York City where she writes regularly for Screen Slate and is the Co-Founder and Executive Producer of Happy Family Night Market—an annual festival that celebrates the Asian diaspora through food, art, and education.