Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
The Asian American International Film Festival is now open for submissions for its 47th annual run in August 2024! We already covered some of the gems we showed at our film festival in 2023. Here are some more from that year, to get a glimpse of the ki ...
Written By: Nathan Liu Producers. They’re crucial to filmmaking, yet few people seem to know what they actually do. I certainly didn’t. For years, if you’d asked me what I thought a producer was, I’d probably have said, “A fat, cigar-chomping man, ...
Written By: Aditya Sharma This article may contain spoilers. Growing up as a gay kid in the Bay Area, Alex Liu was fighting to understand his sexual identity. “Until I was 18 I was deathly afraid, so terrified of this part of m ...
Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. Throughout the past few months, we've been slowly trickling out of isolation and into “hot vax summer,” and that also meant having awkward conversations with friends we ...
They could be anyone’s uncles Written By: Demi Guo Before the pandemic, “Twilight’s Kiss” (released as “Suk Suk” outside of North America) had already been well-received by its Hong Kong audience. Director Ray Yeung awaited its international releas ...
On July 27th, the 42nd Asian American International Film Festival held a special presentation of carefully curated shorts titled "Shorts: Beyond Queer." The program not only highlighted notable queer filmmakers, but also important subjects and themes rel ...
At a time when the concept of "home" has become increasingly fraught for whole segments of our country as a result of our current immigration climate, filmmakers AB Troen (director), Marc A. Mounier (producer), and Yongle Wang (editor) have ...
Steven Hanyun CONG writes about the individualization of the LGBTQ Asian Pacific Islander culture and the films that speak to his own experiences.
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