Call For Entries!
March 6, 2010
The 2010 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival is now accepting submissions for our fall film festival (dates TBA).
Categories include:
Narrative Fiction
Documentary
Short
Philadelphia Short
For complete details, click here.
Official Lineup for the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival Presented by HBO
August 27, 2009
Philadelphia Asian American Film & Filmmakers is very pleased to announce that Comcast has come on board as a Premier Sponsor and HBO is returning as the Presenting Sponsor for the 2009 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, which runs October 9-11, 2009 at the Ibrahim Theater at the International House and the Asian Arts Initiative.
Congratulations to all of our filmmakers!
NARRATIVE FEATURES
Opening Night Film – Children of Invention Tze Chun & Mynette Louie
Centerpiece Presentation – Formosa Betrayed Adam Kane & Will Tiao
Closing Night Film – Story of Wine Cheol-ha Lee & Cha Seung-jae
Karma Calling Sarba Das & Sarthak Das
Second Moon Masahiro Sugano & Sanghoon Lee
Why Am I Doing This? Tom Huang & N.D. Brown
DOCUMENTARIES
Operation Babylift Tammy Nguyen Lee
A Song For Ourselves Tadashi Nakamura
Sounds of New Hope Eric Tandoc
A Village Called Versailles S. Leo Chiang
Whatever It Takes Christopher Wong
SHORT FILMS
Blood Colony Jacob Holcomb
Boba and Melon Gum Alice Park
Cotabato City Karen Lin
Evolution Kenji Lui
Fine Threads Adele Pham & Desi Girls on the Rise
Fortune Cooking Jason Karman
Foxes Rob Schwartz
Half Kenneth Ken Ochiai
The Humberville Poetry Slam Emily Chang
I Don’t Sleep I Dream J.P. Chan
Imprint Van Blumreich
In Search of Colors Will Kim
Interpretation Lin Oeding
Let Old Ghosts Rest Gregory Cooke
The Letter Kris Mendoza
Lui Lui in Amelica Vera Wing Lui
Manoj Zia Mohajerjasbi & Hari Kondabolu
Memory Block Hari Alluri
Motoo Adele Pham & Bao Nguyen
Mr. Cupcakes Angela Chen
Pho Dac Biet Christina Tran
Plan B Kaidy Kuna
Seen/Unseen Sara Suleman
Subconscious Jason Chen
Survivors Soham Mehta
Tatang Jean “Nico” Paolo
The Veiled Commodity Vinh Dickson
Wake Up Dawen Wang
PAAFF Trailer Contest
August 1, 2009
The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival is now accepting newly shot, original 30 second videos promoting the upcoming film festival running October 9-11, 2009.
Submission period ends Sept 13, 2009.
For more details click here.
2009 Call for Entries/PAAFF Sponsors Philadelphia Cinefest
March 13, 2009
The 2009 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) is now accepting submissions for the following festival award categories:
Narrative Fiction (60 mins+)
Documentary (30 mins+)
Short Film (1-45 mins)
Final Postmark Deadline for submissions: June 13, 2009
Submit online: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/6998
For sponsorship information: click here
Check out the 2009 Festival Poster
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PAAFF is proud to be sponsoring the following films during the Philadelphia Cinefest:
Children of Invention, Directed by Tze Chun
Two Asian-American children are left to fend for themselves when their mother goes missing in director Tze Chun’s accomplished, semi-autobiographical feature.
Director will be in attendance for the Saturday screenings
Sat. March 28th, 2:30pm @ The Prince
Sat. April 4th, 12:30pm @ The Bridge
Sun. April 5th, 4:00pm @ the Black Box at The Prince
The Equation of Love and Death, Directed by Cao Baoping
Five characters — a tough lovelorn female cabbie, two inept smugglers from the countryside, a man of multiple personas and a baffled policeman are all caught up together in this fast-paced Chinese thriller. (Mandarin with English subtitles) East Coast Premiere, featured in World Focus section.
Sat. April 4th, 4:45pm @ Ritz 5
Sun. April 5th, 7:00pm @ Ritz 5
To see a full list of Asian and Asian American films that will be screening at the Cinefest, click here
For ticket info, click here
