Director Thanh Huynh and Phuong Ah | Vietnam | 5 min Mixing clay animation and live action, this fabulous short depicts how a bunch of pens attempt to ostracize the newly-come pencil, only to realize the importance of appreciating each other’s differences. Screening: August 4, 2012, 1:30pm Museum of Chinese in America Playing as part of FOR YOUTH [...]
Category: AAIFF12, Animation, Category, Countries, Date, For Youth By Youth, Genres, International, Letter, S, Saturday August 4, Short, Vietnam · Tags: american, Asian, festiival, film, internationa, pencil
Director Stefanos Tai | USA | 14 min BIG CITY, SMALL TOWN is one 16-year-old’s account of the neighborhood in which he has grown up, and the unsettling changes it has undergone as a result of the real-estate and economic downturns. The film shows the broader human impact of New York City’s residential rent laws in protecting many [...]
Category: AAIFF12, Asian American, B, Category, Countries, Date, Documentary, For Youth By Youth, Genres, Letter, Saturday August 4, Short, USA · Tags: AAIFF, american, Asian, big, city, festival, film, international, small, town
Emily is stuck in a repetition of events, a cycle that slowly begins to unravel as she comes to discover where and what she truly is.
Category: AAIFF Featured Films, AAIFF12, AAIFF12 Slideshow, Asian American, Category, Countries, Experimental, Feature, Feature Film, Friday August 3, Genres, Horror, I, Letter, Narrative, Narratives, Suspense, Thriller, Tour Films, USA, What's New · Tags: AAIFF, american, Asian, festival, film, ghost, hp mendoza, i am, identity
In this quirky documentary, an American man and a Chinese woman agree to marry one another, but soon find out the relationship is not what they expected.
Category: AAIFF Featured Films, AAIFF12, Asian American, Category, Countries, Date, Documentary, Feature, Feature Film, Genres, Letter, S, Saturday July 28, USA, Work-in-Progress · Tags: AAIFF, american, Asian, female, festival, film, seeking
Outsider at Home follows filmmaker Danny Lee’s search for the reason behind the continued stereotypical representation of Asian Americans in mainstream media.
Category: AAIFF12, Asian American, Category, Countries, Date, Documentary, Genres, Identity Issues, O, Saturday July 28, Short, Short Film, This American Life, USA · Tags: AAIFF, american, Asian, festival, film, home, international, outsider
Nick is a Korean-American gay man in LA. On attending ‘dol’, the first birthday ceremony of his baby nephew, Nick finds himself yearning for a life just beyond reach.
Category: AAIFF12, Asian American, Category, Countries, D, Drama, Genres, Letter, LGBTQ, LGBTQ Night, Love, Interrupted, Narrative, Short, Short Film, USA · Tags: AAIFF, american, Asian, dol, festival, film
Hyun-soo gets a phone call from home in the middle of a meeting. What awaits ahead is an array of mishaps, accidents, fears and murders.
Category: AAIFF12, Category, Countries, Genres, Horror, In the Name of Love, International, Letter, M, Narrative, Short, South Korea, Suspense, Thriller · Tags: AAIFF, american, Asian, family, festival, film, international, modern
There’s an apple, how are you going to eat it?
Category: AAIFF12, Animation, Asian American, Category, Countries, Excellence in Short Film Award Nominee, Experimental, Genres, H, How To..., Letter, Short, Short Film, USA · Tags: AAIFF, american, apple, Asian, festival, film, how, international
Every weekend in Shanghai’s Peoples’ Park, parents hang posters to match-make their unwed children. Love however has a funny way of changing even the best-laid plans.
Category: AAIFF12, Category, China, Excellence in Short Film Award Nominee, In the Name of Love, International, Narrative, Romantic Comedy, S, Short, Short Film, Singapore · Tags: AAIFF, american, Asian, festival, film, international, love, market, shanghai
Two white-collar clerks sets up a private radio program in Shanghai, an Otaku lady lives in isolation. Their random fates are linked by the radio.
Category: AAIFF12, Category, China, Countries, Drama, Excellence in Short Film Award Nominee, Genres, Identity Issues, International, Letter, LGBTQ, LGBTQ Night, Love, Interrupted, M, Narrative, Romance, Short, Short Film · Tags: american, Asian, festival, film, medicine, my, spiritual
