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...ethno-cultural uncertainty, Mallozzi also found herself perplexed by her prospects as an undergraduate artist at Harvard. She initially had no intention of being a VES concentrator at Harvard...
Monkey Dance is the second major documentary by Mallozzi, a current TF for Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 150ar, “Film Production: Intermediate Studio Course.” Following three teenage Cambodian-American dancers from Lowell, Massachusetts over the course of three years in their lives, the film documents a wealth of situations that are rife with tense emotion—car crashes, prison sentences, and college financial aid issues...
Without missing a beat, the modest, soft-spoken Mallozzi openly admits to making an attempt to influence at least one major part of the film. Near the film’s end, one of the teens, Samnang, is accepted to his top-choice school, Brown University. However, due to a mix-up with his financial aid forms, he is unable to afford tuition, and has to decline the acceptance. At the Q&A, Mallozzi has no qualms about telling the audience members that she tried to raise money for the boy’s tuition...
Every aspiring filmmaker, journalist, or artist at Harvard can learn a lot from this incident: Mallozzi doesn’t get her inspiration from greedy dreams for multibillion-dollar box-office success or from pretentious notions of artistic purity. Both Mallozzi and her work are grounded in a relentless commitment to difficult truths and simple human dignity...
That’s not to say that Mallozzi is a simple person. From the very beginning of her life, she’s had to grapple with the frustration of an unclear cultural identity. Mallozzi grew up in rural Ohio as the child of a Chinese-born mother and an Italian-American father. “There were no minorities [where I grew up],” she recounts. “So we were considered very exotic, even though I was half-Chinese, and my mom didn’t even speak Chinese...