Keshia Hannam is a New York based, Hong Kong born writer, director, producer and speaker. She currently serves as Editor in Chief for Eastern Standard Times, a global media company representing Asia and the Asian diaspora.
Growing up mixed race and then living as an immigrant across Hong Kong, India, Australia, the UK, and now the US, Keshia was always drawn to how belonging and assimilation affect identity.
In remote hills of Myanmar's Wa Territory, workers with chemical-blistered hands loaded vacuum-sealed tea packets into crates. Days later, these packets surfaced in Tokyo apartments, Sydney suburbs, and Bangkok nightclubs. A single kilo made for $1,800 could sell for $588,000. The flood of methamphetamine changed the landscape of addiction worldwide–from Bangladesh to Slovakia, South Korea to South Africa. At the center of this web sat Tse Chi Lop and the organization called simply "The Company"–a federation of former enemies united under a revolutionary business model: why fight over market share when you can grow the market itself?
His recent LP One Day It'll All Make Sense has shown that the East London producer of "Fashion Week" can fluidly cross cultural boundaries while maintaining a global sound authentic to each genre, the likes of which have never been blended before.
Payal Kapadia just became the first Indian Director to be nominated for a Golden Globe for her fiction feature debut All We Imagine As Light. Earlier this year, she was the first Indian woman to win a Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for her fiction feature debut.
K-POPS, directed, written, and starring 8-times Grammy winner Anderson .Paak, had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. He shares the inspiration behind the film and how his own cultural identity shaped the story.
Ahead of the 2024 US elections, EST is speaking with leading figures in the AAPI community about the Asian community’s voting behaviors, to myth-bust and highlight resources to utilize.
In November, EST will be releasing As Above, So Below, an original doc chronicling the journey of Sikh/British CEO Nikita Chauhan. Ahead of the premiere, Keshia Hannam gets real with the director and subject of this honest short.
Asian fashion has often been overlooked or stereotyped in the global fashion scene. Asian New York Fashion Week is changing that.
Taiwanese band Accusefive celebrates their seventh anniversary with a world tour, capping off years of award-winning music that blends genres and resonates with fans. Eastern Standard Times goes deep with the trio about how their catchy tunes and energetic live shows are taking their unique sound global.
There are artists who have changed genres, and then there are artists who reach across borders to create the kind of bridges that haven’t existed before. JJ Lin is both.
Even as the first Hong Kong born director to be nominated for an Oscar, Derek Tsang describes his main influence as arthouse cinema. So when he was asked to direct the first two episodes of Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi series, “3 Body Problem,” his surprise was only outmatched by his joy.