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For
Immediate Release
29 November 2004
ASIAN CINEVISIONS
National Monthly Film Series Launches in NYC
New
York, NY - Asian CineVision (ACV) today announces the
launch of an unprecedented national touring Asian film
series, Asian Cinevisions.
Asian
Cinevisions is a pioneering
monthly film series in North America featuring exceptional
new films that capture diverse Asian global experiences.
It aims to showcase films from the US, Canada and Asia
- China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,
Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Vietnam and many more countries -that are critically
acclaimed, but rarely have an opportunity to screen
in America. Through this first-of-its-kind series, American
audiences will have the opportunity to savor and appreciate
this critical force in cinema today as well as its great
diversity and cultural richness.
Beginning this December,
Asian Cinevisions
will screen Izuru Narushima's THE HUNTER AND THE HUNTED
and Edmond Ho-Cheung Pang's MEN SUDDENLY IN BLACK throughout
the tri-state and Boston area. Venues include Cinema
Village, NYC; American
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY; Cinema
Arts Centre, Huntington, Long Island;
Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, NY; and the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston.
Screenings will take place at a growing number of venues
across the country, including the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston.
Described by Variety
as "a crime thriller in the style of Yasujiro Ozu,"
THE HUNTER AND THE HUNTED is a sensitively observed
relationship between a small-town police detective and
a seasoned cat burglar. They are engaged in a cat-and-mouse
game that frustrates each other and yet feeds their
lives for ten years. The film stars two of Japan's most
well-known actors, Koji Yakusho and Akira Emoto, who
have also appeared in EEL and SHALL WE DANCE. (Official
selection: New York Asian American International Film
Festival 2004; Udine Far East Film Festival 2004; Seattle
International Film Festival 2004; Hawaii International
Film Festival 2003)
In MEN SUDDENLY IN BLACK,
a gang of four buddies, led by Hong Kong acting veteran
Eric Tsang, proceeds with military precision and gangland
swagger to get laid when their wives and girlfriends
leave for a quick trip to Bangkok. A screwball game
of hide-and-seek ensues as the men try to avoid getting
caught. (Winner of Best New Director and Best Supporting
Actor at the 23rd Annual Hong Kong Film Awards; nominated
for 3 awards at 40th Annual Golden Horse Awards. Official
selection: NY Asian American International Film Festival
2004; Hong Kong International Film Festival 2004; Melbourne
International Film Festival 2004)
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Asian
CineVision, Inc.
Asian
CineVision, Inc. (ACV) is a not-for-profit
national media arts membership organization established
in 1976 in New York City. ACV is dedicated to the promotion
and preservation of Asian and Asian American media expressions
through helping to develop and support both emerging
and experienced Asian American film and video makers
and other media artists working in a range of genres
and styles; and helping to ensure that the full spectrum
of Asian and Asian Americans media works reach diverse
audiences in Asian American communities and beyond.
For
more information, please contact:
William Phuan
Asian CineVision
133 West 19th St. Suite 300
New York, NY 10011
212.989.1422
william@asiancinevision.org
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