Short Film 'Asian Girls' Has a Provocative Release Online

Asian Girls directed by Curious Film’s Hyun Lee, is a stylised, slick horror film which has been released online after a successful run of film festival screenings in the USA, UK and Australia. It had its world premiere in the SXSW Midnight films program, a screening section reserved for experimental and provocative films. 

In the lead up to its online premiere, director Hyun Lee released the trailer for the short on PornHub in a lighthearted effort to promote the film and open discussion on “what it is to be an Asian Girl”. Noting that porn is the first result on search engines when looking up the phrase “Asian Girls”, Lee adds “With a film called Asian Girls, I just thought it’d be funny to make horny men who fetishise Asian women find my weird horror film instead of porn”

Set in a nondescript Asian megacity, Asian Girls is an experimental horror film which mixes fashion with bass-heavy dance music and ASMR. The film was made by a culturally diverse and female team, starring Hong Kong-Australian musician Rainbow Chan and written and directed by Korean-Australian filmmaker Hyun Lee.

Asian Girls was one of three projects selected to be financed by CreateNSW’s Emerging Filmmakers’ Fund. The short film premiered online on Vimeo on the 9th of March, 2019.