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Andrew Ahn Interview: Andy & Dol (First Birthday)
Writer/Director Andrew Ahn talks about his short film Andy winner of the best narrative short award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and his new short film film Dol (First Birthday). Dol (First Birthday)will be screened April 29th at The Newport Beach Film...
Omi Vaidya Interview: Big In Bollywood
American-born Omi Vaidya, a struggling actor in L.A., decides to go to India to see about financing for a film he wants to direct. The South-Asian actor unexpectedly lands a role in a Bollywod film, 3 Idiots and four of Omi's buddies armed with cameras fly to Mumbai...
Newport Beach Film Festival: April 26th – May 3rd
Newport Beach Film Festival is Orange County's premiere film festival loaded with movies from around the world and great events. This year the festival will screen 400 films from 50 countries. Wow...just wow! It's easy to love this festival because of the diversity of...
San Diego Asian Film Foundation Spring Showcase: April 19th – 26th
San Diego Asian Film Foundation starts it's Spring Showcase on April 19th highlighting foreign language films and a few from the USA. Film being screened include the Front Line (South Korea), Headshot (Thailand), I Wish (Japan), The Learning (USA), Life Without...
Patrick Wang Interview and “In the Family” Film Review
Winner of Best Narrative Feature and the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award at San Diego Asian Film Festival. Many critics could argue, perhaps convincingly, that In the Family could be edited from its almost 3 hours to 2 hours, however, the pacing of the film...
Foundation For Asian American Independent Media Chicago: Showcase April 6th – 19th
The Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM) was founded in 1995 by journalist Ben Kim, and musicians Sooyoung Park and William Shin. In 1996 the group created the Annual Chicago Asian American Showcase (the Showcase), which, in its fifteen years, has...
Japan Film Festival 2012 LA/OC: April 7th – 22nd
The 8th Annual Japan Film Festival (JFFLA) will kick start with Pre-Event Admission Free in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles on April 7, 2012 followed by the opening Gala Event with Premiere Screening of Life Back Then on April 13, 2012. While focused mostly on films from...
George Shaw Interview: Original Score Composer
George Shaw is a film score composer who has won multiple awards for his music. He studied composition and film scoring at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, taking part in its world-class Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program...
Soho International Film Festival NYC: April 13th-20th
The Soho International Film Festival (SIFF) is gearing up to start in April and will have screenings at the Sunshine Cinema, 143 East Houston from April 13-20, 2012. While we typically focus our attention on Asian American film festivals, there are some “regular” film...
Kimberly-Rose Wolter Interview: Knots
Writer/Actress Kimberly-Rose Wolter talks about her latest film Knots directed by Michael Kang and also starring Sung Kang and Illeana Douglas. Knots will be screened Saturday, April 7, 8:15 pm (Repeats Thursday, April 12, 8:30 pm) at The 17th Annual Asian American...
Michael Kang Interview: Knots
Director Michael Kang sat down with us to talk about his film career and his new film, Knots, written, starring and produced by Kimberly-Rose Wolter and also starring Illeana Douglas and Sung Kang. Knots will be screened Saturday, April 7, 8:15 pm (Repeats Thursday,...
Terence Yin Interview: Alivenotdead.com, The Heavenly Kings, music & new TV Series
Terence talked to us about the evolution of the boy band Alive with Daniel Wu, Conroy Chan and Andrew Lin as a vehicle for the film mockumentary The Heavenly Kings, the development of alivenotdead.com, his recently released music CD, Transparent, available at...