May Chew (Director/Producer)
May graduated in June of 2004 with degrees in Film Production and English Literature from York University.  She is currently pursuing a number of projects, including documentary filmmaking, painting, writing and teaching.  She will also be spending the upcoming year in Japan,working and exploring.

Anice Wong (Director/Producer/Camera)
Anice is a recent graduate of the Film and Video project at York University.  Along with making documentaries, she has a passion for creating images.  She has a background in the visual arts and photography, which help to contribute to her art in cinematography.  In the past, she has shot numerous films and videos in various formats.  Furthermore, some of her visual art work has been exhibited in public locations in Toronto and Ottawa.  Currently she is working on a documentary titled "Whose Rights, Anyway?" In making documentaries, she is interested in generating debate amongst the audience, and making people think about issues which would normally not affect them personally.  Her goal in documentary filmmaking is to widen the minds of the public with throught provoking stories.

Chasing Chinese was borne one night a little over two years ago, when May and Anice began talking about their family roots.  Both of their upbringings have been typically Canadian ones.  Anice’s parents left the hustle and brustle of Hong Kong for Cornwall, Ontario – where her and her sister spent most of their formative years – before eventually settling the family in Ottawa.  Born in the United States to Chinese Malaysian and Indonesian parents, May grew up both in Malaysia and, for the most part, in Canada.

May and Anice began thinking: what does it really mean to be “Chinese (dash) Canadian?”  Is it even possible to cling to a culture they only know of second-hand through their parents?  Can they split themselves right down the centre to designate a Chinese side and a Canadian one?  All these questions swirling in their heads, they decided they wanted to make a film that would explore these issues.  They gathered together other first generation Chinese-Canadians – friends and strangers – who were also all attempting to negotiate their families’ Chinese roots with their current Canadian ones.  They then weaved their tales together through the narrator of the film who is a cobbled-together fabric of various voices and “truths”.  The resulting film presents a very personal journey, one that May and Anice also hope is not solely limited to the Chinese-Canadian discourse.