Steven Raven Liang & Patricia Lee, in partnership with SFFILM Makers, brought together directors, actors, and screenwriters for scene studies. This workshop was participatory, and incorporated dramatic & comedic improv, warmups, and scene studies. It was an opportunity for Bay Area directors to work with actors and vice versa on craft, and screenwriters to evaluate and receive feedback in real time.
Steven Raven Liang Wins the California Arts Council Reentry Through the Arts Grant
Steven Raven Liang wins the California Arts Council Reentry Through the Arts Grant to create Filmmaking Workshops that dignify, humanize, and de-stigmatize the Asian American reentry community.
Reentry Through the Arts supports arts and culture programs for adults who have been incarcerated within correctional institutions.
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Steven Raven Liang Quoted in the New York Times About Nan Goldin & Social Media
Nan Goldin Wants You to Know She Didn’t Invent Instagram
Nan Goldin’s “Ballad of Sexual Dependency” on view at the MoMA, New York City.
Steven Raven Liang Cast in 'From Number To Name'
Directed and devised by Kristina Wong featuring the formerly incarcerated members of API RISE, their families and supporters.
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Steven Raven Liang Named 2020 Pitzer College Distinguished Young Alumni
Pitzer’s Young Alumni Achievement Award recognizes graduates of the last 10 years who apply Pitzer’s unique educational experience to their professional life and find creative and innovative ways to make impactful changes in the community.
Steven Raven Liang Showcased In "Queer Forms" Group Exhibition @ The Katherine E. Nash Gallery
This multidisciplinary group exhibition and series of public programs that investigate and celebrate the history, politics and culture of LGBTQ+ Liberation across a range of artistic forms and perspectives. Queer Forms coincides with the anniversary of these important historical markers in the history of LGBTQ+ Liberation: the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of FREE (Fight Repression of Erotic Expression), a Gay student organization at the University of Minnesota, and the Stonewall Rebellion in New York in 1969; and the sixtieth anniversary of the resistance to police harassment of LGBTQ+ people at Cooper Do-nuts in Los Angeles in 1959.
Steven Raven Liang Directs Pardon Video for Former Lifer, Billy Taing
In partnership with API RISE, Root and Rebound, and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Steven Raven Liang directs video advocating for pardon of Billy Taing, a Cambodian refugee placed in ICE detention after earning this parole.
“The first generation Chinese-American Liang selected a group of transgender Latina women as the subject of his film Afuera (available on Amazon). With all transgender actresses playing the transgender roles, Liang has already dealt a blow for visibility in casting. The director says he plans to focus on making films dealing with people of color and the queer experience.”