Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
In her first feature film, Judy Lei offers a cathartic reflection on life in Chinatown and her journey to finding herself Written By: Eve Golecruz It’s a film about firsts: the first time our protagonist Judy gets drunk, her first time having sex, her fir ...
Submissions for the 45th Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF45) are open! This year’s festival will be from August 3-13, in the form of a hybrid festival: online screenings with in-person events in NYC with safety protocols in-mind. Subm ...
Greetings from Asian CineVision (ACV), the New York based media arts non-profit whose mission is dedicated to producing, promoting and preserving Asian and Asian American media expressions by artists of Asian descent; to ensure that the full spectrum of ...
Written by: Huizhu Pan Speaking of Asians for Black Lives Matter, I’ve seen many Asian Americans actively participating in protests. But it is still surprising to know there was an Asian activist leading Black revolutions in "American Revolutionary ...
Dear Friends of ACV, Asian CineVision stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Please join us and our API entertainment and media collaborators as we pledge to become better allies, holding our leaders, systems, and selves accountable i ...
Written By: Nathan Liu Bruce Lee. What more do I need to say? You all know him, the actor and martial artist whose hit films helped bridge the gap between East and West. He’s the man who created Jeet Kune Do, the hybrid fighting style that paved t ...
Written By: Nathan Liu In a 2015 interview with the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, actor Daniel Dae Kim described how he thought it was time for Asian performers to take leading roles. Specifically, he insisted that it was time for Asi ...
On July 28th, "Rituals of Resistance" screened at the Asia Society in New York for the 42nd Asian American International Film Festival. The screening was preceded by the short film "The Little Goddess." After the screening, there was a panel with the dir ...
Written By: Melissa Slaughter “I wrapped on my birthday, August 26th, ‘cause I said I wanted to finish a film before I turned 30. And JoAnn was like, ‘we've got to get it done …’” Andrea A. Walter, the writer, director, and director of photog ...