Asian American Jesus has been on the film festival circuit. If you missed it, you can now catch it online. In the short, writer-performer Samantha Chanse plays six different compelling and memorable characters in this hilarious and insightful mockumentary exploring post-racial art, excuses for bad poetry, and the truth about dying on stage. Here’s more about the short:

Meet Truth Is Real, self-professed ‘mad scientist of the spoken word,’ and the subject of college freshman Suzette Law’s final project for her Ethnic Studies class, ‘Performing the Diaspora: Asian Americans and the Arts.’ Suzette grudgingly pursues her task by interviewing various experts on Truth Is Real’s work–the executive director of an Asian American Arts organization, the chipper barista of… an independent coffee house that hosts open mics, a college professor, a lone fan, and, of course, Truth Is Real. Suzette gradually arrives at a new understanding about post-racial art, excuses for bad poetry, and the truth about dying on stage. Interspersed with excerpts of performances by Truth Is Real, this hilarious and insightful mockumentary is written and performed primarily by the multi-talented Samantha Chanse, and is directed and co-created by Yasmine Gomez.

Asian American Jesus