THE A LIST: 15 STORIES FROM ASIAN AND PACIFIC DIASPORAS
Directed by Eugene YiCast: Connie Chung, Tammy Duckworth, Kumail Nanjiani, Amanda Nguyen, Sandra Oh
- Documentary Features
- USA
- Documentary, Pacific Islander, Social Issues, Women
- English
- Subtitled
- 2026
- 84 mins
- Los Angeles premiere
Official Selection, 2025 DOC NYC
Official Selection, 2026 CAAMFest
Filmmakers and talent in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.
What does it mean to be AAPI? Trailblazers from Sandra Oh to Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Kumail Nanjiani to Connie Chung and more, reflect with joy, humor and sorrow on finding community and navigating their prismatic identities in this HBO Original documentary.
Credits
Producer: Eugene Yi, Jada Yuan, Chad Thompson
Executive Producer: Tina Nguyen, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Director of Photography: Nausheen Dadabhoy
Editor: Johanna Giebelhaus
Composer: Gene Back
Sound Designer: Lew Goldstein
Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders / Courtesy HBO
Preceded By
C3: What We Built and What Comes Next: Voices from The A List
The director and subjects from The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diaspora step out from behind the lens to have a conversation about what it meant to participate, why representation is only the beginning, and what AANHPI storytelling and community looks like moving forward.

