Independent Project

My Name Is Not Amy

Against the backdrop of the worst wildfire in Colorado history, a mixed-race Native Bornean filmmaker reflects on her transracial, transnational adoption into white suburban America, triggering an awakening that challenges memory, coloniality, and the adopted name she was given.

MY NAME IS NOT AMY is the second film in a growing collection of autobiographical, art-forward shorts that explore indigeneity lost, then reclaimed, against a backdrop of climate change and social unrest demanding humanity to remember who we are, where we come from, and how we’re all connected. As unique as a transracial, transnational adoption story may seem, Dewi’s narrative reflects the stories of 94% of the global population of people who have lost connection to their ancestors, motherlands, and/or Indigenous knowledge and wisdom. This film aims to create a bridge between our perceived differences, and a safe space where those who are ready to do the work can do the work together.

If you want to support this project, make a connection, or collaborate, please reach out, or check out our fiscal sponsorship at Denver Film.

PREMIERING THIS NOVEMBER at the DENVER FILM FESTIVAL!

DIRECTOR AND EDITOR: Dewi Sungai
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jason Houston
MENTOR: John Van Wyck / Cine Fe
MUSIC: “After the Storm” by Kevin Richard Martin + Hatis Noit
WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM: Cine Fe, Studio IX Mother Project, BGDM, Kin Theory, Mountain Media Arts Collective, Film Fatales, Adoption Mosaic, Right Relationship Boulder, Lakota Way Healing Center, all of the Ancestors whose names we know and don’t know, Spirit Guides, Grandmother Earth, and our Medicine Family