First-generation Cambodian-Mexican-American filmmaker, David Siev, captures a real-time portrait of 2020 during the pandemic in his first moving film, BAD AXE.
This post was written by Meagan Keane and originally appeared on Adobe Blog on Jan. 19, 2023.
The documentary portrays an Asian American family in rural Michigan fighting to keep their restaurant and American dream alive. They reckon with a global pandemic, racial tensions, and generational scars from Cambodia’s “killing fields”, a number of sites used for mass executions and burials of people killed by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s.
With the help of co-producer and editor, Peter Wagner, and editor Rosie Walunas, Siev showcases his family’s resilience against adversity during a historic time in United States history. We sat down with Wagner and Walunas to learn more about the film’s editing process using Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects as well as their experiences getting to where they are today.
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