PAAFF: Starts Today

http://www.phillyasianfilmfest.org/

NARRATIVE FEATURES

Opening Night Film – Children of Invention Tze Chun & Mynette Louie
Centerpiece Presentation – Formosa Betrayed Adam Kane & Will Tiao
Closing Night Film – Story of Wine Cheol-ha Lee & Cha Seung-jae
Karma Calling Sarba Das & Sarthak Das
Second Moon Masahiro Sugano & Sanghoon Lee
Why Am I Doing This? Tom Huang & N.D. Brown

DOCUMENTARIES

Operation Babylift Tammy Nguyen Lee
A Song For Ourselves Tadashi Nakamura
Sounds of New Hope Eric Tandoc
A Village Called Versailles S. Leo Chiang
Whatever It Takes Christopher Wong

SHORT FILMS

Blood Colony Jacob Holcomb
Boba and Melon Gum Alice Park
Cotabato City Karen Lin
Evolution Kenji Lui
Fine Threads Adele Pham & Desi Girls on the Rise
Fortune Cooking Jason Karman
Foxes Rob Schwartz
Half Kenneth Ken Ochiai
The Humberville Poetry Slam Emily Chang
I Don’t Sleep I Dream J.P. Chan
Imprint Van Blumreich
In Search of Colors Will Kim
Interpretation Lin Oeding
Let Old Ghosts Rest Gregory Cooke
The Letter Kris Mendoza
Lui Lui in Amelica Vera Wing Lui
Manoj Zia Mohajerjasbi & Hari Kondabolu
Memory Block Hari Alluri
Motoo Adele Pham & Bao Nguyen
Mr. Cupcakes Angela Chen
Pho Dac Biet Christina Tran
Plan B Kaidy Kuna
Seen/Unseen Sara Suleman
Subconscious Jason Chen
Survivors Soham Mehta
Tatang Jean “Nico” Paolo
The Veiled Commodity Vinh Dickson
Wake Up Dawen Wang

Get Your 30 Second Trailer On: The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival Wants You!

If you don't have a feature length film in you - don't despair - now's the time to put that ADD to good use:

The 2nd Annual Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) is looking for filmmakers (Asian & non-Asian) of all levels to participate in the PAAFF trailer contest, which runs until September 6th, 2009.

Trailer Guidelines

The trailer must:

1) Be exactly 30 seconds.
2) Include all original footage and music, absolutely no copyrighted work accepted and will be disqualified.
3) Promote the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival in an original and creative way.
4) End with this downloadable PAAFF still for the final 5 seconds.
5) Be uploaded to our Youtube group and tagged with “Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival” and “PAAFF.”
6) Notify us by sending an email to Ron with a link to your youtube video.
7) It’s completely free to enter!

Judges include director Todd Angkasuwan (music videos for Snoop Dogg, Far East Movement & many more), producer Philip Lam (Santa Mesa & Undoing) and Cliff Song, representing sponsor HBO.

Prizes

The Grand Prize winner will receive a cash prize* and a pair of All Access Passes to PAAFF and the winning entry will be screened during the film festival and on this website. Finalists will receive a pair of All Access Passes to the festival.

Go the PAAFF site for the fine print.

Call For Entries: Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

From the PAAFF site:

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)

Earlybird Deadline for submissions: May 8, 2009*
Regular Deadline for submissions: June 13, 2009

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. 3 DVD submission copies are required.