WINNER of the Courage Award at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival

This award recognizes the filmmaker’s courage in examining her own family’s history. [Director Crystal Kwok] uses this uncomfortable history to disrupt racial narratives and encourage allyship across communities; to dismantle white supremacy and to elicit a more compassionate country.

english language media

“The Empowerment Zone” Podcast Interview (2023)

“A Really Good Enough Parent” Podcast Interview (2023) “Dr Crystal Kwok shares her working mother of three insights about the job she loves the most.”

RTHK Radio 3 Interview (November 29, 2022)

University of Hawai’i News: (November 3, 2022) “$10K fellowship for women awarded to 4 UH Mānoa doctoral candidates”

Blurring The Color Line reported on NBC Bay Area: (October 26, 2022)

The World Interview (July 20, 2022)

“She Has The Mic” Podcast Interview: (June 27, 2022)

Center for Asian American Media: (May 11, 2022) “San Francisco native Crystal Kwok examines the Chinese experience during the Jim Crow south in Blurring the Color Line”

The Hustle and Soul Magazine: (April 29, 2022) “The 2022 Harlem International Film Festival Announces Line-Up For 17th Edition”

Vimooz: (April 24, 2022) “17th Harlem Intl Film Festival Announces Lineup with 3 World Premieres on Opening Night”

Hawai’i Public Radio: (April 8, 2022) “Documentary screening on Oʻahu shares the lives of Chinese communities in segregated South”

NextShark: (March 1, 2022) “Did Chinese people sit in the FRONT or BACK of the bus during Southern segregation?”

Roar Magazine: (June 2021 issue) “I hold my power in a blurry place, a place that crosses boundaries, entangles different ideas, disrupts binaries…”

Center for Asian American Media: (July 6, 2020) “CAAM IS SUPPORTING 11 NEW DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN 2020”

Georgia Asian Times: (June 30, 2019) “Filmmaker conducts documentary sneak preview on Chinese women in segregated South”

South China Morning Post: (April 11, 2019) “Director Crystal Kwok on Jackie Chan, sex talk and where Asians fitted into segregated US South”

RTHK Radio 3 Facebook Live Interview (July 6, 2020)

RTHK Radio 3 Podcast Interview (April 12, 2019)

chinese language media

Oriental Daily News (July 12, 2020)

HK 01 Chinese Interview (February 8, 2020)