""Initially, I was just documenting her story for myself. At a certain point, I realized it was a story that should be made public,""
""I realized where her history fits into the bigger picture of Filipino immigration, Filipinos in the Bay Area. And I realized her story was one that is not widely told.""
""Lola's story shares a story of what the very few women who were immigrating looked like at that time. It shows that women, too, were critical in developing the Filipino community in the East Bay and in Oakland,""
Over three years, a Filipina-Irish American produced a self-funded, grant- and community-supported film about her grandmother, Marie Rivera Yip, born in 1934 in Oakland's Chinatown. The film, Oakland Ilokana, premieres Oct. 4 at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center and uses family interviews and archival detail to foreground Filipino women's migration experiences in the 1920s–1930s Bay Area. The project records lost family histories after Yip's mother died young and highlights a great-grandmother who opened one of Oakland's first Filipino-owned businesses, Philippine Cleaners and Laundry Agency at 816 Franklin St. The film reframes predominantly male-centered migration narratives to show women's central roles.
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