A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.
Direction
Siev films his own family with devastating, unflinching intimacy.
Editing
2020 footage assembled like a slow-motion car crash.
Director
David Siev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
David Siev started filming casually in 2019 for a 'small town restaurant doc' — then 2020 happened, and the footage became something he never anticipated.
The film's title refers to Bad Axe, Michigan — a town whose name becomes almost cruelly ironic as the Siev family fights to literally axe their way through American hostility.
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