Director Felicia Lowe in Person For two consecutive evenings, PFA presents a program of recent films and videoworks by Asian-American mediamakers, selected by the National Asian-American Telecommunications Association. There is no singular voice that could be termed "Asian-American," but rather a multiplicity of voices capturing the concerns, heritage and richness of diverse cultures. "Asian-American Film and Video" brings this cultural diversity to the fore through a cross-section of documentaries, dramatic films, and personal essays. Pak Beung on Fire, by Supachai Surongsain, explores dilemmas typical to the experience of immigrants-the questionable rewards of assimilation and the yearning for home and family. Here, two Thai students, one bright and dedicated, the other, succumbing quickly to the surface of consumer culture, struggle with their ambitions in a strange land. Director Surongsain keeps the American dream always just out of reach. Felicia Lowe's Carved in Silence takes us to San Francisco's Angel Island and its infamous days as an immigration center. Through archival footage, interviews, and well-detailed re-enactments, this documentary describes the plight of Chinese immigrants, denied full citizenship and harassed by discriminatory immigration policies. Carved in Silence suggests that the Chinese Exclusion Act was no match for the tenacity of those who wished to immigrate. Plagued by tuition problems, the foreign exchange student in Keith Lock's Brighter Moon is desperate. His family in Hong Kong has been tapped-out and his busboy job pays a pittance. The financial woes only aggravate a deeper trouble; shy, lonely and at odds with crass American culture, this young student yearns for the values of hearth and home. Tempered by a bittersweet romance, Brighter Moon offers no easy answers.