Two weeks left to submit your film to our festival in beautiful Vancouver, BC!

The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) invites submissions for its 12th annual festival, November 6-9, 2008.

As Canada's oldest festival dedicated to exhibiting films and videos
by North American artists of Asian heritage, we are committed to
supporting both emerging talent and established filmmakers.

VAFF is currently accepting independently produced feature and short
films (narrative, documentary, animation or experimental) by Asian
Canadian or Asian American artists. At least one of the creative team
(Director, Writer, or Producer) must be of Asian Heritage.

* Final deadline: May 31, 2008 (postmarked)
* Entry fee: $20 (Canadian or US)

To review our guidelines and submit your film online go to
http://www.vaff.org/submissions or email programming@vaff.org for more
info. We look forward to receiving your submission.

The New York Korean Film Festival has an early submission deadline of May 30 for its Short Film Competition. Click here for the details.

From the official announcement:

THE COALITION OF ASIAN PACIFICS IN ENTERTAINMENT AND FOX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 9th ANNUAL NEW WRITERS AWARDS

THE DEADLINE IS MAY 30, 2008

Winners of the CAPE Foundation New Writers Awards will each receive a cash prize of $4,000, Final Draft software, a staged reading of their script and opportunities to meet/pitch to seasoned entertainment executives.

Previous winners include filmmaker Alice Wu (SAVING FACE) and Young Il Kim, whose winning script HYUNG"S OVERTURE was optioned by producer and CAPE Board of Advisor member, Teddy Zee (PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS).

CAPE's Board of Advisors include distinguished executives and artists such as Ang Lee, John Woo, Terence Chang, Dean Devlin, Warrington Hudlin, David Henry Hwang, Lou Diamond Phillips, Richard Sakai, B.D. Wong, Chris Lee, Fritz Friedman, Janet Yang and Teddy Zee.

For more information, please go to: http://www.capeusa.org/NewWritersAward.html.

For Submissions Downloads, please go to: http://www.capeusa.org/NWA_Downloads.html.