This documentary serves to acknowledge and center the history, experiences, and ongoing legacy of the Filipino American diaspora in New York City.
Viewers meet Xenia Diente, a Filipino American public arts administrator who led the grassroots campaign to co-name Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue as “Little Manila Avenue.” Viewers also meet Elizabeth Diente, Xenia’s mother who, during the 1960s, came to the U.S. as one of countless Filipino American nurses leading our nation’s medical centers.
The film chronicles the intergenerational lives and experiences of Xenia and Elizabeth growing up in Woodside’s Little Manila.