Asian American International Film Festival starts Thursday in NYC

07.11 - Posted by Editor

New Yorkers should not miss the Asian American International Film Festival, which opens Thursday with Ham Tran's "Journey to the Fall." Dennis Lim has written an overview of the festival for the Village Voice in which he singles out "Colma: The Musical":

Billed as the first Asian American musical since The Flower Drum Song and armed with a super-catchy score by co-star H.P. Mendoza, Richard Wong's Colma: The Musical is destined to be the fest's underdog crowd-pleaser. Most of the best new Asian American films acknowledge the complex realities of globalization, but this irresistible coming-of-age charmer, about a group of teenage friends stuck in the titular Bay Area suburb, speaks to a more modest and universal kind of physical mobility: the all-important escape from a depressing hometown.

Other features include NaRhee Ahn's "Purity" and Jeff Adachi's "The Slanted Screen." And AsianAmericanFilm.com editor Greg Pak will host the Works-In-Progress Screening of Pearl Park's "Among Our Kin" on July 19. For more information, visit http://www.castandcrewofcolor.org/.

For festival information and screening times, visit www.aaiff.org.