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Asians On Film Awards – Summer 2012

Scott Eriksson — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:20:50 +0000

We are again thrilled with how many great short films are being submitted and the judges have finally announced the winners for Summer 2012. Winners automatically compete for our year end “best” award in their winning category and will be considered for screening.

We are accepting films for the final quarter of the year, Fall, and encourage you to let others know we are looking for films! Congratulations to everyone.

Short Drama
WINNER – Dumpling (Wesley Du, Director)
Honorable Mention – Her Story (Aaron Au, Director)

Short Comedy/Musical
WINNER – Chubby Can Kill (Kevin Ung Director)
Honorable Mention – Bleached (Jess dela Merced, Director)

Short Action-Adventure/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror
WINNER – Sudden: Butterfly and the Dragon, (James Boss, Director)
Honorable Mention – Narcissim (Daniel Onoda, Director)

Short Documentary
WINNER – The 90^th Minute (Jun Stinson, Director)
Honorable Mention – TaiwanFamous (Sarah Tadayon, Director)

Short Animation
WINNER – The Shopgirl (Diana Ling, Director)
Honorable Mention – Mirror (Q-hyun Kim, Director)

Actor Short Film
WINNER – Won Lee (Dumpling)
Honorable Mention – James Boss (Sudden: Butterfly and the Dragon)

Best Actress Short Film
WINNER – Arielle Tuliao (Her Story)
Honorable Mention – Jess dela Merced (Bleached)

Best Supporting Actor Short Film
WINNER – Hiro Kanagawa (Her Story)
Honorable Mention – Raymond Chan (Her Story)

Best Supporting Actress Short Film
WINNER – Kerri Patterson (The Commitment)
Honorable Mention – Elaine Pinto (Bleached)

Best Ensemble Cast Short Film
WINNER – Her Story (Aaron Au, Director)
Honorable Mention – A God of Sinners (Tagore Almeida, Director)

Best Director Short Film
WINNER – Wesley Du (Dumpling)
Honorable Mention – James Boss (Sudden: Butterfly and the Dragon)

Best Cinematographer/DP Short Film
WINNER – Tracy Whyte (Dalai Mongol)
Honorable Mention – Henry Li (The Lesson)

Best Editing Short Film
WINNER – Phoenix Liu (30 ½) – Winner
Honorable Mention – James Boss (Sudden: Butterfly and the Dragon)

Best Original Score Short Film
WINNER – Terry Chan (30 ½) – Winner
Honorable Mention – Levi Chen (Dalai Mongol)

Asians On Film Awards – Spring 2012

Scott Eriksson — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:21:27 +0000

We are again thrilled with how many great short films are being made and for Spring 2012 there were a couple of categories where judges scores ranked films with similar scores “forcing” us to announce more than one honorable mention. Winners automatically compete for our year end “best” award in their winning category and will be considered for screening.

We are now accepting films for our Summer quarter and encourage you to let others know we are looking for films! Congratulations to everyone.

Short Drama
Waking Up, Yuta Okamura Director – Winner
The Telegram Man, James Francis Khehtie – Honorable Mention

Short Comedy/Musical
Dim Sum Noodle, Kent Leung & Milton Ng Directors – Winner
Born to Dance This Way, Jerell Rosales Director – Honorable Mention

Short Action-Adventure/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror
Puppeteer, Pauline Lam Director – Winner
Prescott Place, Peilin Kuo Director – Honorable Mention

Short Documentary
The Lower 9: A Story of Home, Matthew Hashiguchi Director – Winner
All Are Different, Jiaxi Shen Director – Honorable Mention

Short Animation
The Escape, Andre Surya Director – Winner
Ballet of Unhatched Chicks, Shaun Seong-Young Kim Director – Honorable Mention

Best Actor Short Film
Tadamori Yagi (Waking Up) – Winner
Curtis Lum (Will) – Honorable Mention
Kenichi Sano (Giongo) – Honorable Mention

Best Actress Short Film
Jennifer Ikeda (Incoming) – Winner
Becky Wu (Pleasures) – Honorable Mention

Best Supporting Actor Short Film
Hidekun Hah (Born to Dance This Way) – Winner
Ki Hong Lee (Fratervention: The End of Bro’ing Out) – Honorable Mention

Best Supporting Actress Short Film
Eileen Soong (Born to Dance This Way) – Winner
Francesca Waters (Break) – Honorable Mention

Best Ensemble Cast Short Film
Dim Sum Noodle (Kent Leung & Milton Ng, Director) – Winner
Kuya Ko (Dean Banting, Director) – Honorable Mention

Best Director Short Film
Yuta Okamura (Waking Up) – Winner
James Francis Khehtie (The Telegram Man) – Honorable Mention

Best Cinematographer/DP Short Film
Mahmoud Abdelbar & Pattana Pattanasri (Sentaku Basami) – Winner
Kevin Scott (The Telegram Man) – Honorable Mention
Sourav De (1:30 am) – Honorable Mention

Best Editing Short Film
Allan Liang (Isolates) – Winner
Darryl Whetung (Will) – Honorable Mention

Best Original Score Short Film
Clarence Au (Will) – Winner
Paul Summerlin & Matty Castano (Breathe) – Honorable Mention

Asians On Film Festival Winners: Winter 2012

Scott Eriksson — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:16:23 +0000

When we opened our first year of honoring films, we expected attention to be light as we geared up, so imagine our surprise at all the wonderful films we received and enjoyed. Our goal is to honor films with awards (short films quarterly, feature films semi-annually) and then revisit the winning films at the end of the year to determine the best of 2012. Our winter quarter awards have been announced and we are accepting films for Spring 2012! Congratulations to the winners and those who came so close to winning (honorable mentions)!

Best Short – Drama
WINNER – A Little Lost (Anupam Lahiri, Director)
Honorable Mention – Wonder Boy (Corrie Chen, Director)

Best Short – Comedy/Musical
WINNER – Shanghai Love Market (Craig Rosenthal, Director)
Honorable Mention – Mixed Blooms (Destri Martino, Director)

Best Short – Adventure/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror
WINNER – Metal Gear (Agustin Rodriguez, Director)
Honorable Mention – Determined Spirits (Diana Rumjahn, Director)

Best Short – Documentary
WINNER – Merde! (Earl McDaniel III, Director)
Honorable Mention – The Golden Pen (Lani Selick, Director)

Best Short – Animation
WINNER – The Boy and the Tree (Jimmy Zhang, Director)
Honorable Mention – El Monte (Elaine Tang & John Liu, Directors)

Best Actor – Short Film
WINNER – Shaleen Cholera (A Little Lost)
Honorable Mention – Terry Sasaki (Fractured)

Best Actress – Short Film
WINNER – Cindera Che (Volte-face)
Honorable Mention – Teresa Huang (Mixed Blooms)

Best Supporting Actor – Short Film
WINNER – Alvin Lam (Mixed Blooms)
Honorable Mention – Duncan Tran (BBOY)

Best Supporting Actress – Short Film
WINNER – Sofia Shen (Wonder Boy)
Honorable Mention – Toni Domanico (Mixed Blooms)

Best Ensemble Cast – Short Film
WINNER – Tu & Eu (Edward Shieh, Director)
Honorable Mention – Mixed Blooms (Destri Martino, Director)

Best Director – Short Film
WINNER – Edward Shieh (Tu & Eu)
Honorable Mention – Corrie Chen (Wonder Boy)

Best Cinematographer – Short Film
WINNER – Christopher Guinness (Pothound)
Honorable Mention – Dae Hoon Kim (Fractured)

Best Editing – Short Film
WINNER – Vincent Tran (BBOY)
Honorable Mention – Christopher Guinness (Pothound)

Best Original Score – Short Film
WINNER – Shantanu Moitra (A Little Lost)
Honorable Mention – Mark Bijasa, Franco De Leon & Ren Tomio Lascelles (BBOY)

FILM SUBMISSION

Asians On Film Festival: Open For Submissions!

Scott Eriksson — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:30:39 +0000

Winter Quarter 2012 has passed and we have made selections of the short films being considered for awards. As we move into Spring Quarter we are looking forward to many more great short and feature films!

MISSION & OBJECTIVE
Asians On Film Festival is an extension of the website www.AsiansOnFilm.com and like the website, our mission is to provide recognition to Asian/Pacific Islanders who work in the English language film industries (not necessarily in English language films) either as actors, actresses, writers, directors, producers, editors and/or those who work in other aspects of filmmaking. Our primary focus are films from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand where recognition of Asian/Pacific Islander talent is often overlooked because of their minority status. With the festival as an extension of the website, we are committed to promotion via news, information, interviews and recognition given by the festival. We hope to show the world talent that otherwise may be missed. With readership in 180 countries we expect the marriage of the website and the festival will provide an amazing forum for great films.

Asians On Film Festival: About the Festival

Scott Eriksson — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:06:05 +0000

New films are being released every day, every month of the year. We therefore, do not constrain recognition of films to a yearly event, but have an open rolling deadline so that we can recognize films when filmmakers are ready to have the world see them! The online format also enables us to give recognition and awards to films at the start of their festival run that will help them promote their work and be a means to get acceptance into other festivals.

Because the format of the festival is designed so that films can receive immediate attention, films that meet a minimum creative standard as determined by the panel of judges are accepted and considered for quarterly awards as they are received, but they are not screened. The unlisted deadline for submission of a film is the last day of each quarter (March, June, September, December). Films will be screened by a panel of individuals who work in the film industry, not random people off the street! Winners in a variety of categories will be determined and posted the following month after the end of a quarter and online certificate awards will be given out. In addition, we will offer award winning short filmmakers the opportunity for their film, their trailer or excepts to be viewed online, at their sole discretion, because we also want filmmakers to have a say in the online promotion of their film. Quarterly winners will automatically become nominees for the yearly awards and be invited to have their films screened at a year end “best of” screening in Los Angeles in February.

Asians On Film Festival 2013

Scott Eriksson — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:50:23 +0000

HD cameras have allowed the filmmaking industry to flourish in every city around the world, it’s no longer contained within a few select cities. This in turn has overwhelmed film festivals with submissions to the point where fewer and fewer films actually get seen on the big screen. Attending the Boston International Film Festival in 2010 I had the opportunity to speak with the program director who told me that they had 2500 film submissions that year and were only able to screen about 170 films. He found that to be both exciting and disappointing because there are more talented people making films that otherwise couldn’t, but a fewer percentage can actually be screened. For the Boston festival the 170 films represented about 7% of the submissions and we have since come to learn that on average only 5-6% of films get accepted into any festival.

The point of this story? First, filmmakers should never, never , never, let rejection from a film festival discourage submissions or let it disappoint or make one think that it is a reflection of the quality of their film. Films festivals consider many things, not just which films are best, because they are formatting a program. When festivals send rejection letters stating they had so many great submissions and the selection was very difficult, it’s the truth. With more time and money every festival would accept tons more films for screening. Then comes the second point, namely, we decided to help promote Asian-American, Asian-Australian, Asian-UK filmmakers. The immediate problem is that having a traditional festival would be no better at accepting films for screening as any other festival, so fuck traditional. Here comes the Asians On Film Festival and here is what filmmakers can expect:

1. The festival will be non-profit and have a an incredibly low submission fee to encourage as many films as possible to be submitted and there will be a rolling deadline so that filmmakers can submit them when they are done instead of when submissions are open.

2. Films that are submitted will be previewed by four filmmakers during quarterly deadlines and will be rated in various categories for a total maximum grade of 100%. All films with an overall grade of 70% or greater will automatically be listed as ACCEPTED regardless of the number of films submitted. This we hope will create some buzz and acknowledgement for good films which we hope in turn will help filmmakers moving forward as they promote their films further.

3. The top 5 graded films in each category will also receive an official nomination for “best” in the category and of course a winner in each category will be awarded each quarter.

4. The quarterly winners and the highest scored runner-up (for all categories) will qualify for year-end competition (5 in each category). These films will be screened with the audience selecting year-end winners. This way industry people will have chosen the best for each quarter but the viewing audience will select the yearly winners.

As we finish setting parameters, our withoutabox submission page, and other details to get us off the ground, we will keep people up to date about tweaks we are making. Submissions will be open January 2012!