Movie

It Smells Like Springtime (2022)

• September 30, 2022
• 16m

Overview

Through family conversations, home movies, and portraiture, It Smells Like Springtime explores the complexity of Asian-American identity and experience in dialogue with the artist and jeweler Ada Chen and a riotous cadre of kids. Together, they grapple with their ties to their families’ homelands, the paradoxes of representation, and their sense of belonging.

Director

Mackie Mallison

Writers

Mackie Mallison

Starring

Ada Chen, Zoë Tam, Gene Chen