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| Directed by | Sue Ding |
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Running time | 17 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Claudia Kishi Club is a 2020 short documentary film directed by Sue Ding.
| The Claudia Kishi Club | |
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| Film poster | |
| Directed by | Sue Ding |
| Distributed by | Netflix |
Release date |
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Running time | 17 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Claudia Kishi Club is a 2020 short documentary film directed by Sue Ding.
The Claudia Kishi Club revolves around Claudia Kishi, a character from Ann M. Martin's novel series The Baby-Sitters Club . A Japanese-American, Claudia was a notable exception to a dearth of Asian-American characters in children's literature, particularly a character that had a large reach as a part of a popular series and often resisted stereotype. [1] Sue Ding told the Daily Bruin that in 2013, she noticed an outbreak of content from Asian-Americans about Claudia; [2] in 2018, she successfully crowdfunded a documentary project. [3]
In The Claudia Kishi Club, director Sue Ding interviews multiple Asian-Americans who grew up with The Baby-Sitters Club, discussing the impact Claudia had on them as a child. [1] The interviewees include Naia Cucukov, producer of a 2020 TV adaptation of The Baby-Sitters Club; Sarah Kuhn, a sci-fi novelist; Gale Galligan, a graphic novelist; C. B. Lee, an author; Phil Yu, a blogger known as "Angry Asian Man" who circulated memes of reworked covers of The Baby-Sitters Club such as "Claudia and the Racist Little Shits"; and Yumi Sakugawa, an artist who created a 2013 zine titled "Claudia Kishi: My Asian-American Female Role Model of the 90's[ sic ]", which was noticed by Ding in 2013 and featured in the documentary. [1] [3] [4]
The Claudia Kishi Club premiered July 10, 2020. [4]
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