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AsianAmericanFilm.com is proud to announce that it is serving as community co-sponsor for four programs of the Asian American International Film Festival, which begins this Thursday in New York City. See below for information about the four programs, and check out AsianAmericanFilm.com on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/aafilm ) for information on how to win tickets to the shorts programs!

For more about the Asian American International Film Festival, visit http://www.aaiff.org/2010/

The programs co-sponsored by AsianAmericanFilm.com include:

It's a Little Bit Funny...
Friday, July 16, 6:45 pm, Quad Cinema
...the films included in this one of a kind collection of shorts. Take a whirlwind journey into these unexpectedly humorous takes on life, from a Tarantino-esque New York revenge story to the surprising work of an undercover cop in sunny San Francisco. A hop, skip and a flight away lies the trivial suburbs of the Hawaiian Islands where the term "Forbidden Fruit" takes on a whole new meaning. Prepare to LOL during this lighthearted program. We dare you to stay in your seat when you'll want to ROFL.
Kilo, dir. Phil Lorin and Kiel Murray
Father Sister, dir. Soyeon Kim
Lychee Thieves, dir. Kathleen Man
Empire Corner, dir. JP Chan
Wu is Dead, dir. Rich Wong
http://www.aaiff.org/2010/shorts/its-a-little-bit-funny

Back to the Future
Friday, July 16, 9 pm, Quad Cinema
Brace yourself for the ultimate travel experience through time. This series of short films dabbles with the idea of how time shapes the course of our lives. The ambitious filmmakers included in this program show us that time is a force that cannot be taken for granted. While Fish In Barrel pushes the visual and narrative boundaries, with beautiful, extreme slow motion camera work, Memento Mori puts an unexpected twist on the linear narrative in Memento Mori.
Fish in Barrel, dir. Randall Okida
Boond, dir. Abhishek Pathak
Once More, dir. Hiroo Takaoka
Mr. Green, dir. Greg Pak
Memento Mori, dir. Yohko Shiraishi
Transparent Movement, dir. Soyeon Kim
http://www.aaiff.org/2010/shorts/back-to-the-future

Untold Stories
Sunday, July 18, 6:30 pm, Quad Cinema
In this collection of documentaries, a unique and diverse ensemble of stories bring us to all corners of the world. From a bookstore in Bangalore to a small village in Cambodia, a quiet wheat farm in rural China to a hair salon in Queens, New York, or going back in time to reconsider the Korean war, these insightful films demonstrate that no matter the place, there is always is a story worth recounting and a perspective worth considering.
Memory of Forgotten War, dir. Deann Borshay Liem and Ramsay Liem
Born Sweet, dir. Cynthia Wade
Mr. Shanbag's Shop, dir. Asha Ghosh
Turn of the Harvest, dir. Tani Ikeda
Fine Threads, dir. Adele Pham
http://www.aaiff.org/2010/films/untold-stories

Work-in-Progress screening
Monday, July 19, 7 pm
Cuny AAARI
Award-winning filmmaker Greg Pak (Robot Stories (AAIFF'05), Mister Green (AAIFF10)) is back to lead our annual Work-in-Progress Workshop which will guide filmmakers through the process of molding an unfinished work into its final cut. This event is organized as part of the Media Coalition for Artists of Color Networking Salon.
http://www.aaiff.org/2010/workshop/work-in-progress

In an effort to foster and support an online community of filmmakers using modern social media tools, film director Justin Lin (BETTER LUCK TOMORROW, FAST & FURIOUS, upcoming HIGHLANDER) and YouoffendmeYouoffendmyfamily.com (YOMYOMF.COM), one of the fastest growing arts and culture blogs, has launched a new online Film Initiative called INTERPRETATIONS.

INTERPRETATIONS is a new initiative to encourage aspiring filmmakers to develop their own original and unique voice and projects. All participants will be asked to use the same four line script, but can "interpret" it any way they wish on film.

"Marlon Brando once remarked that the only way the Academy Awards® would be a true barometer of who was truly best was if every actor tackled the same role and would be judged on how they interpreted that part." says Justin Lin, YOMYOMF.com founder.
"This exercise will embody that spirit so that a 14-year-old suburban kid from New Jersey or a 70-year-old aspiring filmmaker from Texas would both have an equal opportunity of creating something memorable."

"The script is intended to be broad and fluid enough so that one director could craft a comedy from it, another a stylish music video, another an action film, another an avant-garde work of animation, and so on," says Elaine Chin of YOMYOMF.com, and formerly an executive at HBO and Fox.

YOMYOMF.com's mandate for this Initiative is to create an environment to foster a shared experience. Instead of the usual one way street process that similar online video competitions follow between entrant and judge, INTERPRETATIONS will be community-oriented: employing social media to contextualize the films, providing immediate feedback from our jury of prominent industry professionals, as well as developing ongoing conversations so all participants can become stakeholders in the Interpretations Initiative.

As part of launch, YOMYOMF.com has commissioned eight established filmmakers to produce their own Interpretation short films to serve as examples of how the script can be interpreted. Some of these filmmakers include actor Danny Pudi (NBC's COMMUNITY), Spencer Nakasako (Emmy-Award winning dirctor of REFUGEE) and Iris Yamashita (Academy Award® nominated screenwriter for Clint Eastwood's LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA).

INTERPRETATIONS Timeline & Website
Entrants can begin uploading their films starting May 15 and entries will be accepted until September 1st, 2010. The winners will be announced at the 11th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (October 21 - 28, 2010). The Interpretations Film Initiative is hosted at www.interpretationsfilm.com, where the script can be downloaded and the commissioned shorts can be viewed.

About YOMYOMF.com
Spearheaded by filmmaker Justin Lin, whose credits range from independent films like MTV/Paramount Pictures' BETTER LUCK TOMORROW (which was the first film MTV ever acquired and boasted the highest per screen average in the company's history) to major studio films like Universal's FAST & FURIOUS (the studio's highest grossing film for 2009 as well as the biggest April opening in history), the YOMYOMF team--a group of friends and peers in the arts and entertainment industry--launched the blog in the summer of 2009 as a natural outgrowth of their "off-the-record" conversations regarding issues and experiences (within the film industry and beyond) that entertain, provoke and move them. Visit them at www.youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com or www.yomyomf.com.

Toyota is the title sponsor for INTERPRETATIONS. Additional sponsors include Audrey Magazine, FOX Studios, KoreAm Magazine, Universal Pictures and the Writers Guild of America, West.