“Miami is the City of Hustle”: Jing Ai Ng on SXSW 2025 Premiere Forge
Common associations audiences might have with Miami: ruise lines, café con leche, beach parties, plastic surgery, Art Basel, Dexter, Scarface, a diverse and predominantly Latino and Caribbean population. AFI Conservatory graduate Jing Ai Ng wants to turn some of those tropes around with her debut feature Forge, premiering in the Narrative Spotlight section of SXSW 2025. The Malaysian-born filmmaker grew up shuttling between Southeast Asia and Miami and wanted to honor the Florida city she knew—that of first- and second gen-Asian subcultures, rare dim sum restaurants and a particular vein of white collar crime: art forgery. After first exploring a […] The post “Miami is the City of Hustle”: Jing Ai Ng on SXSW 2025 Premiere Forge first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.


Common associations audiences might have with Miami: ruise lines, café con leche, beach parties, plastic surgery, Art Basel, Dexter, Scarface, a diverse and predominantly Latino and Caribbean population. AFI Conservatory graduate Jing Ai Ng wants to turn some of those tropes around with her debut feature Forge, premiering in the Narrative Spotlight section of SXSW 2025. The Malaysian-born filmmaker grew up shuttling between Southeast Asia and Miami and wanted to honor the Florida city she knew—that of first- and second gen-Asian subcultures, rare dim sum restaurants and a particular vein of white collar crime: art forgery. After first exploring a […] The post “Miami is the City of Hustle”: Jing Ai Ng on SXSW 2025 Premiere Forge first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.