10th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival
Oct 15-29, 2009
Call For Entries
We're looking for the Best in Asian and Asian American cinema
CASH prize for Jury Winner
Late Deadline: June 10, 2009 ($40 fee)

Rules, entry forms, and festival info at www.sdaff.org

for more info: 858.565.1264 Info@sdaff.org

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Films by Asian American directors include Tze Chun's "Children of Invention" and Ed Radtke's "Speed of Life" on Friday.

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA)
Tuesday, April 21 - Sunday, April 26, 2009
ArcLight Hollywood, 6360 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028
General Admission: $12/ ArcLight members, seniors, children: $10
For more information visit: www.indianfilmfestival.org

Asian American Filmmakers & Films at IFFLA 2009

SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009, 7:15 PM/ Saturday, April 25th, 2009, 1:00 PM

ANDHERI:
India & USA/2008/20min/Digibeta LA Premiere
Writer/Director/Producer: Sushrut Jain

BATTLE OF THE ALBUM COVERS:
USA/2007/3min/Digibeta LA Premiere
Director: Rohitash Rao

CANADA:
USA/2007/16min/Digibeta LA Premiere
Writer/Director/Producer: Anjali Sundaram

A DAY'S WORK:
USA/2008/17min/35mm
Writer/Director: Rajeev Dassani

SHORTS PROGRAM 2
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009, 7:00 PM/ Sunday, April 26th, 2009, 1:00 PM

ABRIDGED:
USA/2007/4min/Beta
Writer/Director/Producer: Arjun Rihan

KAVI:
India-USA/2009/19min/35mm LA Premiere
Writer/Director/Producer: Gregg Helvey

ANIMATED FEATURE
Saturday, April 25th, 2009, 5:00 PM
SITA SINGS THE BLUES
USA/2008/82min/35mm
Writer/Director/Producer: Nina Paley

NARRATIVE FEATURE
Saturday, April 25th, 2009, 9:00 PM
BOMBAY SUMMER
USA-INDIA/2009/102min/35mm World Premiere
Writer/Director/Producer: Joseph Mathew Varghese

NARRATIVE FEATURE
Sunday, April 26th, 2009, 3:30 PM
7 DAYS IN SLOW MOTION
India/2009/100min/35mm World Premiere
Writer/Director: Umakanth Thumrugoti

A new work from the creators of The Fall of The I-Hotel and What's Wrong With Frank Chin?

MANILATOWN IS IN THE HEART
Time Travel With Al Robles

a poetic documentary by Curtis Choy

April 19, 11am Bijou Theater - Eugene, OR
DisOrient Film Festival
www.DisOrientFilm.org

April 28, 10am Foothill College, Campus Center - Los Altos Hills, CA
Asian Pacific Heritage Month (free!)

May 2, 11am Directors Guild Theater 2 - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
www.vconline.org
(Finalist, Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary)

More information about the film at www.chonkmoonhunter.com

KISSING COUSINS
Limited Engagement
Starts Friday, April 24th in CA!!!

"A TERRIFIC romantic comedy!"- Philadelphia Inquirer
"FRESH and ENGAGING..." - India Abroad
"Great LAUGHS..."- Hyphen
"HILARIOUS!"- Film Karavan

OPENS FRIDAY, APRIL 24TH!

NAZ 8 CINEMAS: Fremont & Artesia
Fri-Sun Showtimes: 5pm, 7pm, 9pm & 11pm

FREMONT (Bay Area)
39160 Paseo Parkway
Directions: Mowry Ave Exit off 880 Fwy, North to Paseo Pkwy

ARTESIA (So-Cal)
6440 South St.
Directions: South St. Exit off 605 Fwy.

www.naz8.com

Click here to watch the trailer
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ATTN BAY AREA! THIS WEEKEND, LISTEN TO INTERVIEWS WITH THE CAST OF "KISSING COUSINS" ON RADIO STATION KEST 1450 AM ON SATURDAY 12-2PM AND SUNDAY 11A-1PM!
Visit the Kissing Cousins Website: www.kissingcousinsmovie.com

The 2009 DC APA Film Festival is currently accepting films for our 10th Anniversary program in October. Films must be directed, produced, or principally acted by Asians or Asian Pacific Americans, even if the subject matter is not Asian. Non-Asian Pacific Americans may enter films if the subject matter is Asian Pacific American or Asian Diaspora related. Preference is given to films produced in North America or in other Countries (outside Asia) with significant Asian Diaspora populations. Please contact Tad Doyle, Director of Programming, at tad@apafilm.org if you have any questions about the admissibility of your film.

Film submissions are now being accepted online at http://www.withoutabox.com/login/5151

"All About Dad", a Vietnamese American film, will be screening at CAMERA 3, in Downtown San Jose, CA, starting on April 17th through 24th. It will play an extra 2 weeks if it is popular enough to stay open, as well as at the larger theatre, Camera 12.

"All About Dad" won the Audience award for Best Narrative Feature, beating out 100 other films, and sold out both Screenings at CINEQUEST INT'L FILM FESTIVAL in San Jose.
It will be the closing night film for the Vietnamese Int'l Film Festival.

JUSTIN LIN's "FAST AND FURIOUS" IS #1 BOX OFFICE HIT THIS WEEK - $72.5 MILLION GROSS AND OVER $20,000 PER SCREEN

Big Props to JUSTIN LIN on his huge weekend opening $72.5 million for FAST AND FURIOUS starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker and Jordanna Brewster and many of the guys and gals from Finishing The Game and Better Luck Tomorrow! If you are a fan of the genre - you will love this edition. Check it out!

LA TIMES - SAYS
Director Justin Lin is behind the wheel again -- he of the beautiful moving metal of "Tokyo Drift," the one redeeming aspect of No. 3 in the franchise, except for the wry Vin cameo at the end. Lin brought a tight new torque to the series even though he didn't have the best story line and characters to work with (not that there's much story to be found in any of these vehicles).

Lin infuses the necessary full-throttle bits with a dynamic lyricism, choreographing the chaos like a whipped-up jazz-fusion set -- trusting absolutely in the hypnotic power and beauty of strength and movement. Which is why "Fast & Furious" is, in a very bizarre way, a thing of gasp-inducing artistry to watch, even if you're not a member of the NASCAR, gear-head, street-racing crowd.

Even with all the movie's speed, at the deep center of its adrenaline-charged heart "Fast & Furious" is a love story of boys and their cars, with all of the longing looks sweeping right past the barely clad bones of girls who gather like flies to honey, draping themselves over the cars and the guys, anything to get close to the power that rumbles to furious life within.

GO TO http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-fastfurious3-2009apr03,0,4338270.story
for full review

MORE LATER THIS WEEK!!!

CONGRATS AGAIN EVERYONE!

SCREENING/ DISCUSSION
Thursday/ April 9th/ 6:30-10PM
Cantor Film Center, Theater 101
36 East 8th Street

Take Out
Directed by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou (2008, 87 min.)
This film presents an unvarnished view of a day in the harsh life of Ming Ding, an illegal Chinese immigrant and deliveryman for a NYC Chinese take-out shop.
Post screening discussion with the filmmakers.

RSVP at apa.rsvp@nyu.edu or 212.992.9653 or visit www.apa.nyu.edu.

Co-sponsors: The Center for Media, Culture & History, The Museum of Chinese in America.

This is just a friendly reminder that the San Diego Asian Film Foundation's Call for Entries Early Deadline is approaching.

10th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival
Oct 15-29, 2009
Call For Entries
We're looking for the Best in Asian and Asian American cinema
CASH prize for Jury Winner
Early Deadline: April 30, 2009 ($25 fee)
Late Deadline: June 10, 2009 ($40 fee)

Rules, entry forms, and festival info at www.sdaff.org

for more info: 858.565.1264 Info@sdaff.org

Information and Application

PIFF-ACF 2009 Funding Programs

Asian Cinema Fund (ACF) is waiting for many wonderful projects wishing to join its 3rd edition in 2009!

Aiming to vitalize independent films and documentaries in Asia, ACF has a special funding program of 3 categories- Script Development Fund, Post-Production Fund and Documentary Fund.

ACF discovers original projects in Asia for each category and encourage them to be developed and completed into films with various supporting systems.

If you have any project to introduce us and need a proper support, please join the ACF 2009 Funding Program!

You can learn more about application eligibility and download the application form for each category on our website.

* Script development Fund
Script Development Fund is to help the screenwriters/filmmakers
concrete their ideas into a script and encourage them to succeed in film production.
http://acf.piff.org/eng/html/applications/development.asp

* Post-Production Fund
Post-Production Fund supports Asian projects in stage of post-production.
In cooperation with top-notch post-production companies in Korea,
ACF Post-Production Fund covers DI, Sound Mixing, Negatives and Prints of the selected projects.
http://acf.piff.org/eng/html/applications/post_pro.asp

* Documentary (AND) Fund
AND (Asian Network of Documentary) Fund is designated for Asian documentaries.
It encourages more productions and distribution of documentaries.
http://acf.piff.org/eng/html/applications/documentary.asp

Applications are now being accepted and its deadline is April 30.

In case you need more detailed information,
Please don't hesitate to contact ACF coordinator.

Attn . Ellie JO | ACF Coordinator
E-mail . acf@piff.org (Script Development Fund, Post-Production Fund)
and@piff.org (AND Fund)
Tel . +82 2 3675 5097

Look forward to seeing you and your wonderful project soon in ACF 2009!

Asian Cinema Fund 2009
14th PUSAN International Film Festival (October 8 -16)

PAAFF is proud to be sponsoring the following films during the Philadelphia Cinefest (March 26-April 6, 2009):

Children of Invention, Directed by Tze Chun

Two Asian-American children are left to fend for themselves when their mother goes missing in director Tze Chun's accomplished, semi-autobiographical feature.
East Coast Premiere, featured in American Independents section.
Sat. March 28th, 2:30pm @ The Prince Music Theater
Sat. April 4th, 12:30pm @ The Bridge
Sun. April 5th, 4:00pm @ the Black Box at The Prince

The Equation of Love and Death, Directed by Cao Baoping

Five characters -- a tough lovelorn female cabbie, two inept smugglers from the countryside, a man of multiple personas and a baffled policeman are all caught up together in this fast-paced Chinese thriller.
(Mandarin with English subtitles) East Coast Premiere, featured in World Focus section.
Sat. April 4th, 4:45pm @ Ritz 5
Sun. April 5th, 7:00pm @ Ritz 5

For more info, visit: http://www.phillycinefest.com/

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The 2nd Annual Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) is now accepting submissions for the following festival award categories:

Narrative Fiction (70 mins+)
Documentary (35 mins+)
Short Film (1-30 mins)

Regular Deadline (postmarked): May 8, 2009*
Final Deadline (postmarked): June 13, 2009

More info: http://www.phillyasianfilmfest.org

Submit online: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/6998

*Filmmakers (Asian and non-Asian) are encouraged to submit their films early to save money on entry fees and to beat the final deadline crunch. Works in progress will not be accepted.

2009 Call for Entries

The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) is Canada's oldest festival dedicated to exhibiting films and videos by North American artists of Asian heritage. It is committed to supporting both emerging talent and established filmmakers. Visiting artists have included Jessica Yu, Justin Lin, and Michael Kang, as well as BC filmmakers Mina Shum, Julia Kwan, Nilesh Patel, Eunhee Cha, and Jeff Chiba Stearns.

VAFF invites submissions for its 13th annual festival, November 5th-8th, 2009. Early bird deadline is April 30th; final closing deadline is May 31st (postmarked - no exceptions).

All films in the Open Call must include a North American Asian in a key creative role (writer, director, producer). Earlybird entry fee: $10 (CDN or US); Regular entry fee: $20 (CDN or US). Entry fee is non-refundable.

Genres for consideration include narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental. Exhibition formats accepted are 35mm, Beta SP (NTSC), and DigiBeta (NTSC) - and preview screeners may be submitted as VHS tapes or DVDs. No materials or screeners will be returned.

Awards include a juried award for Best Canadian Short. Programming includes Q & A sessions, panel discussions, a Filmmakers' Luncheon, and special gala events.

All screenings take place at Cinemark Tinseltown, a multiplex theatre within the city's Chinatown and Downtown districts. For more information and submission guidelines, visit www.vaff.org or email us.

VAFF is a not-for-profit organization that provides a forum for independent North American Asian filmmakers to showcase their work to both Asian and non-Asian audiences. The society endeavours to represent the often ignored North American Asians caught between two cultures. It provides a cultural bridge between the Asian and non-Asian communities as well as within the Asian community themselves.

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