Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
A film focused on finding self amongst a movement On Thursday, August 7th, Conner Sen Warnick’s feature film debut, CHARACTERS DISAPPEARING, will be screened at the 48th Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) in NYC. In an interview with ...
A new generation of filmmaking is coming out of Hong Kong. But can we watch it? Living between worlds When I was about eight years old, my mum and I went to a caa caan teng – the Cantonese name for a Hong Kong style diner – for a quick meal. These ...
Revisiting Early AAIFF Films and Their Modern Counterparts In curating this year's archival program, programmer Hai-Li Kong sought to explore the limitless possibilities of film as a medium, selecting works that push the boundaries of how film can be ...
The high stakes of Ashley Chea’s hoop dreams Through what was initially a project about the formation of Asian American basketball leagues, director Erica Tanamachi and producer Jenn Lee Smith found a contemporary story that they could intertwine with ...
KENJI TSUKAMOTO’S ‘ASHIMA’ AND HOLLY M. KAPLAN’S ‘SUNFLOWER GIRL’ As one might expect, all of our selections at the Asian-American International Film Festival cover a wide range of perspectives across various diaspora – from men and women, to the ver ...
Big Brother is Watching What must it be like, to live in constant fear of a government you escaped from but can never truly abandon? C35 Film’s Yi Chen explores that question in her latest film to grace the film festival circuit: “Dissidents.” Chen remar ...
When the American Dream is a Calvino dreamed by the whole world, respectively. In Mandarin, “Yi” means “one,” and “Nan” means “man.” “Many people think that my name has something to do with the one-child policy, but my mom said the name was given by a ...
An Immigrant’s Story Told Through Dance Even the editing feels like a slow and perfectly punctuated tango in Ryan Moore’s award-winning short film “When We Danced” (2023). The flow of the opening and the magnificent visuals move together gracefully, trans ...