{"id":13409,"date":"2022-11-13T20:47:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T01:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13409"},"modified":"2023-12-12T06:32:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:32:49","slug":"david-siev-bad-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13409","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Video Interview: \u2018Bad Axe\u2019 Director David Siev Documents His Family\u2019s Struggles during 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out more video interviews on our YouTube channel<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t get much more personal than David Siev\u2019s documentary, <\/span>Bad Axe<\/i><\/b>, <\/span><\/i>named after the small town in Michigan where his family lived and ran the popular community restaurant, Rachel\u2019s. Things took a drastic turn in 2020 when COVID-19 hit the country, and then-President Donald Trump used his platform to target China, which in turn, began anti-Asian hatred cropping up across the nation. Michigan is a swing state, but Bad Axe, Michigan is very much Trump country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even before that, David\u2019s family \u2013 led by father Chun, who managed to escape the killing fields of Cambodia, and his Mexican mother \u2013 had to buckle down when COVID made it difficult to keep Rachel\u2019s business afloat. Things got even worse when they started to experience pushback from the Siev\u2019s once-friendly neighbors, many who didn\u2019t want to follow COVID protocols, like wearing a mask inside their restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad Axe<\/i><\/b> is an incredibly powerful and moving cinema verit\u00e9 film that creates a surprisingly effective cross-section of the events of 2020, though seen through the eyes of Siev\u2019s Asian-Mexican-American family. It\u2019s a highly relatable story that\u2019s particularly enlightening for those of us that live in more liberal areas of the country.<\/p>\n

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This past weekend, Siev won the Critics Choice<\/a> Documentary Award for First Documentary Feature.<\/p>\n

CinemaDailyUS\u2019s Edward Douglas spoke with Siev recently, a video interview that you can watch above.<\/p>\n

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Bad Axe<\/i><\/b> will open in select theaters on Friday, November 18 following its recent New York premiere at <\/span>DOC-NYC<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The summary of the film:<\/span><\/p>\n

After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of Bad Axe, Michigan, at the start of the pandemic, Asian American filmmaker David Siev documents his family’s struggles to keep their restaurant afloat. As fears of the virus grow, deep generational scars dating back to Cambodia\u2019s bloody \u201ckilling fields\u201d come to the fore, straining the relationship between the family’s patriarch, Chun, and his daughter, Jaclyn. When the BLM movement takes center stage in America, the family uses its collective voice to speak out in their conservative community. What unfolds is a real-time portrait of 2020 through the lens of one multicultural family\u2019s fight stay in business, stay involved, and stay alive.<\/p>\n

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Check out more of Edward Douglas\u2019 articles.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n