Asians On Film Festival takes place March 27-29, 2015 at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. This year we had a record number of submissions and we will be screening 98 films! We will kick off the weekend with an opening night party in Beverly Hills at 424 Beverly Hills on Thursday night, March 26, 2015.

TICKETS: AOFF2015

The festival schedule is:

FRIDAY, March 27, 2015

3:00PM
Today’s Headline (Arem Kim) (4 min)
Sex, Politics and Sticky Rice (Tina Takemoto) (8 min)
Dharma Road (June Inuzuka) (31 min) Nominations: Best Documentary
Pretty In the Dark – Delica-m (Herman Wang) (4 min) Nominations: Best Music Video
An All Encompassing Light (Chloe White) (20 min)
Sriracha (Griffin Hammond) (33 min)

5:00PM
Asian American Film Lab presents 72 Hour Shootout 2014
Return (Jesse Hsu)
Himitsu (Steven Gee)
Memory 317 (Michael Tang)
Underneath the Grey (Patrick Chen)
Dyed (Rommel Andaya)
Five Years (Howard Lui)
Family Matters aka Family First (David Rock)
The Split End (Eddie Shieh)
Take Out (Jonathan Lee)
America’s Top Hairball (Girard Tecson)
Startup Glory (Blake Tamaki & Joseph Jung)
Casefile 69 (Tyler Ham Pong)

6:00PM – 7:30Pm
Opening Night Red Carpet

7:30PM
Audition (Celine Li) (24 min) Nominations: Best Director, Best Ensemble Cast
Wedlocked (Samia Zaidi) (5 min)
Anastasia’s Journey (Jeffrey Chin) (5 min)
The Scuttlebutt Assassins (D.Y. Sao & Ren Wen) (6 min) Nominations: Best Action/Adventure
Patient One (Erykah del Mundo) (9 min) Nominations: Best Sci-Fi/Horror
Something Important (NaiWei Liu) (7 min) Nominations: Best Animation
Burglar (Hojin Kim) (5 min) Nominations: Best Action/Adventure
Room 731 (Young Min Kim) (18 min) Nominations: Best Director, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography
Harper Valley PTA – The Sym (Conner Scott) (5 min) Nominations: Best Music Video, Best Supporting Actress, Best Editing
Carolina Parakeet (A.J. Briones) (16 min) Nominations: Best Sci-Fi/Horror, Best Actor

9:30PM
Fishing at Lethe (Derek Fong) (4 min)
The Singing Teacher (Inshra Russell) (12 min)
Descendants of the Past, Ancestors of the Future (Albert M. Chan) (16 min) Nominations: Best Actress
Office Romance (Dennis Glasco) (6 min) Nominations: Best Comedy
Carry On (Yatao Li) (16 min) Nominations: Best Ensemble Cast, Best Cinematography
Café Glass (Wen Ren) (9 min) Nominations: Best Editing
Mistress (Anja Murmann) (21 min) Nominations: Best Drama, Best Actress
Scrubbers (Christopher Cass) (14 min) Nominations: Best Actor

SATURDAY, March 28, 2015

1:00PM
Painter (Jisu Park) (8 min) Nominations: Best Animation
An Opening to Closure (Angelo Agojo) (12 min)
Oh, Baby! Baby? (Sungho Ahn) (6 min)
Lilies (Yudho Aditya) (7 min)
South Paw (John Raposas) (10 min)
Made In Bali (Michael Pohorly) (14 min)
The Best Man (Michael Saul) (14 min)
Zugzwang (Yolanda Centeno) (9 min) Nominations: Best Editing, Best Original Score
Cantonese Style! (Bea Soong) (9 min) Nominations: Best Comedy
White Rabbit (Christina Yoon) (18 min)

3:00PM
Black Sail – Chastity Belt (Maegan Houang) (4 min) Nominations: Best Music Video
Kahea (Walter Dods) (18 min) Nominations: Best Supporting Actress
Red Dress (Ekmund Yong) (13 min)
Raymond Avenue (Joe Zen) (6 min) Nominations: Best Supporting Actor
The Accountant, the Man (Fabian Hee) (12 min)
The Amulet of the Dragon (Joao Paulo Andrade) (17 min) Nominations: Best Action/Adventure
Smothered (Amit Dubey) (11 min)
Batgirl Rises (Vincent Tran) (23 min)

5:00PM
Li Wei: Weightless (George Sinfield) (10 min) Nominations: Best Documentary
Honorable Journey (Stephen Menick) (16 min) Nominations: Best Documentary
Dragonfly – Voia (Harry Bainbridge) (8 min)
Master Hoa’s Requiem (Scott Edwards) (18 min) Nominations: Best Documentary
Currency Affairs (Zehao Xue) (4 min) Nominations: Best Animation
The Kung Fu Lesson (Khalid Ali) (45 min) Nominations: Best Documentary

7:00PM
Too Many Nights @ Nuyorican – Kent Evans (Kent Evans, Michael James Wright & Ashley Fell) (8 min) Nominations: Best Music Video
Killing My Girl (Tasos Giapoutzis) (12 min)
Escape (John Wynn) (13 min) Nominations: Best Sci-Fi/Horror
Stray Dogs (Davis Noir) (24 min)
Love Express (Patrick Chen) (18 min) Nominations: Best Original Score
Detached (Sahar Vizel) (16 min) Nominations: Best Actress
Enfilade (David Coyle) (10 min) Nominations: Best Sci-Fi/Horror

9:00PM
The Light and the Little Girl (Jih-E Peng) (7 min) Nominations: Best Cinematography
Side Glance of Dragon (We Ra) (17 min)
The Assassination of a Mathematician (Robert Wei) (20 min) Nominations: Best Ensemble Cast
Woman In Fragments (Quan Zhou) (22 min) Nominations: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress
Nighthawks (Gianpaolo Lupori) (14 min) Nominations: Best Drama, Best Ensemble Cast
My Dog Wish (Terence Yu) (7 min) Nominations: Best Comedy, Best Editing
Talking to My Mother (Leon Le) (18 min) Nominations: Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Score

SUNDAY, March 29, 2015

3:00PM
The Skinny Tree (Christophe Gautry) (6 min) Nominations: Best Animation
Chance of Rain (Philipp Wolter) (15 min)
Time After (Sanjit De Silva & Jon Reitzes) (20 min)
Stuff (Sofian Khan) (4 min) Nominations: Best Comedy
Last Night (Cathy Yan) (12 min)
On the Road (Phoenix Liu) (13 min) Nominations: Best Editing
The Little Violinist (Yang Wang) (15 min) Nominations: Best Actor
Belief (Ivy Yu) (15 min) Nominations: Best Cinematography, Best Original Score

5:00PM
Dim Sum – Only Won (Jason Poon) (3 min) Nominations: Best Music Video
Mr. Chavan (Eddie Shieh) (6 min)
No No, Homo (Jerell Rosales) (3 min)
Next Like (Milton Ng) (12 min)
Clean (Seo-Young Jun) (13 min)
Hypebeasts (Jess dela Merced) (20 min) Nominations: Best Supporting Actor
R.A.D. Men (David Monster) (12 min) Nominations: Best Comedy
Emmy (Robert Abliez) (5 min) Nominations: Best Actress
Predetermined (Rommel Andaya) (10 min) Nominations: Best Sci-Fi/Horror, Best Supporting Actor
Jaded (Paolo Valdes) (20 min)

7:00PM
Red (Jess X. Chen) (2 min) Nominations: Best Animation
For Your Troubles (Brandon Apfel) (18 min) Nominations: Best Action/Adventure, Best Supporting Actress
A Song for Manzanar (Kazuko Golden & P E) (18 min) Nominations: Best Original Score
Kung Fu Zombie (Milton Ng) (8 min) Nominations: Best Action/Adventure
Steh Auf (Get Up) (Seung-Hyun Chong) (25 min) Nominations: Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actor
Tadaima (Robin Takao D’Oench) (15 min) Nominations: Best Drama, Best Director, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography

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