Top 10
1. Team HeadOn “Times [not] Up”
2. Color TV “Grace & the Staten Island Fairy”
3. Fish Grenade “25 Mins”
4. A Green Bowl “Just A Burger”
5. Vision “96-120”
6. Team Persimmon “Broken”
7. Barkada Inc.  “Time Out”
8. The Sexiest One in the Bunch “A Date with Time “
9. imua! Theatre and Film Company “White Rabbit”
10. Fresh C Crew “Time After Time”

Best Actor
Rain Noe “Grace & the Staten Island Fairy”

Best Actress
Ginger Kroll “Broken”

Peer Choice Award
Team HeadOn “Times [not] Up”

Peek Award
Color TV “Grace & the Staten Island Fairy”
The Top 5 teams also will each receive a Peek with one free month of service.

 

Student Filmmaker Award
Team Fivelement “I’m Perfect”

Best Cinematography
Fish Grenade “25 Mins”—WINNER
Last Minute Films “An Untitled Project”
Kevin Boston “The One”
Wet Maynard “Season’s End”
AK9 Films “Now”

Best Story
One Hundred Hand Clap “Is There Anything Else?”
Fish Grenade “25 Mins”
Color TV “Grace & the Staten Island Fairy”
Barkada Inc.  “Time Out”
Team HeadOn “Times [not] Up”—WINNER

Most Original Use of Theme
Fish Grenade “25 Mins”
A Green Bowl “Just A Burger”—WINNER
Vision “96-120”
Fresh C Crew “Time After Time”
Argosy “I Have A Rendezvous With Death”

Best Editing
Vision “96-120”
A Green Bowl “Just A Burger”
Fish Grenade “25 Mins”
Team HeadOn “Times [not] Up” —WINNER
imua! Theatre & Film Company “White Rabbit”

Best Direction
Color TV “Grace & the Staten Island Fairy”
One Hundred Hand Clap “Is There Anything Else?”
Fish Grenade “25 Mins”
imua! Theatre & Film Company “White Rabbit”
Team HeadOn “Times [not] Up” —WINNER

Asian American Film Lab eNewsletter Featured Articles: 1. This Tuesday's AAFL Meeting Details - Short Film Screening 2. Taaza: The High Rollers @ The ImaginAsian - Special Discount 3. Writer X Screenwriting Project Underway 4. Seeking Secretary and Treasurer for AAFL 1. Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 13th - Seeking Films for Screening 1. This Tuesday's AAFL Meeting Details - Short Film Screening Join us for our next meeting featuring the works of three of our members. We hope to get a good turnout to this next meeting, particularly filmmakers who have an opinion and aren't afraid to express it. Feedback is so important and I hope we can do that for these guys. Scroll down for more information about the featured films this week. Note our new meeting location which has food and booze! I'm very glad to see the same faces at our meetings, hopefully we will continue to see that. As always, if you would like to have a reading, screening, workshop your script or have an idea for a meeting, just send an email to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) AAFL Member Film Screening featuring... "Compulsory Exercise, No.1" by Matte Chi "Waqt"by Hyunsuk Kim "Within Limits" by Eubin Kim Maxim Lounge Inside the Hotel Stanford in K-Town 43 West 32nd St. This Tuesday, February 13th @ 7 pm Please RSVP to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with "Film Screening" in the Subject Heading and your First and Last name only in the Body of your email. No other text is necessary. * This is a free event. Stay tuned for details regarding membership dues in the coming weeks. Compulsory Exercises, No. 1 [rough cut] Directed by Matte Chi Shot on PXL2000 transferred to minDV, Approx 3min Synopsis: New Years Eve. Participants are repeatedly asked two questions: "Do you have any regrets?" "How many times do you wash your hands?" Participants repeat the question and answer it. The results are assembled and set to music. "Waqt" Directed by Hyunsuk Kim Video, Approx 5 min. Synopsis: A story of a man defining his life metaphorically, struggling to exist, live and mean himself. "Within Limits" Directed by Eubin Kim Digital Video, 12:08 min. Synopsis: Steve is searching for a sense of belonging in the world. School wasn't for him, and corporate America made him feel like an underachiever. The only place where he feels a sense of inclusion is the underworld of Koreatown, where outsiders have a sense of camraderie. But loyalties run deep, and uncontrolled, leads to violence. One night after an altercation, Steve finds himself too deep in the scene. When Kyung Min unexpectedly shows up to "help" him out with his situation, the stakes are heightened and he must make a decision that will change his life. What's up NEXT: Tuesday, February 27th: Member Film Screening: Gregory Singer's "Papa's Branch" and Tony Chen "Untitled" Tuesday, March 13th: MOVIE NIGHT with the AAFL - "Taste of Tea" @ The Imaginasian Tuesday, March 27th: Member Film Screening: Mark Cheng's "Deployment Strategy" 2. TAZZA: THE HIGH ROLLERS @ The ImaginAsian Tazza: The High Rollers is playing at The ImaginAsian through February 15th. Print out a copy of this newsletter and present it at the box office for a $7 ticket and for $1 popcorn. Limit one per customer, valid through February 15, 2007. For show times, visit http://www.theimaginasian.com 3. Writer X Project Screenwriting Project Underway It's not too late to join in the fun. For more information about this competition, go to http://www.aafilmlab.com/index.php/weblog/writer_x_project_details_announced/ Winner of this competition gets their film produced with a minimum budget of $500! Scripts from all over the US accepted. 4. Seeking Secretary and Treasurer for AAFL As we grow we are in need of more humans. Please be that human. Seeking Secretary and Treasurer. Descriptions below. Secretary: Will assist in record keeping of all regular meetings and special events. Responsible for meeting minutes and follow up items for the group. Will own the AAFL eNewsletter which is released every two weeks. As part of the core group will be involved with steering committee for the AAFL and will have input into all AAFL decisions. Treasurer: Manage all monetary transactions for the group, including workshop fees, membership dues etc. Maintain files for tracking all income and expenditures. Help calculate costs for certain events including Event Fees, Membership Fees etc to make sure the AAFL is financially sound. Responsible for keeping track of tax related issues. As part of the core group will be involved with steering committee for the AAFL and will have input into all AAFL decisions.

The AAFilmLab partnered with MOCA and APEX to provide a mentor who could guide a high school student's endeavor at creating their first short film. "Reminiscence" is one of the films completed. This film is now part of MOCA's Chinatown Film Project YouTube Channel.

The synopsis:
A young girl celebrates her grandmother's birthday as they reminisce about the grandfather who has recently passed away. We travel back in memory to 1965 - the grandparents, as a young couple, overcome what looks to be the end of their burgeoning relationship when the grandfather returns to China to tend to his sick mother.

Credits:
Written & Directed By
XIAOQIAN CHEN

CAST
Grandma
KIT FONG LEE

Granddaughter
DEANNA ZHUMore

The AAFilmLab has completed its Chinatown Youth Mentoring Program along with MOCA and APEX. Two of our members were mentors for high school students and had the great pleasure of helping them create their very own film to be included in MOCA's Chinatown Online Film channel on YouTube. The AAFilmLab is incredibly proud to have been part of such an inspiring experience.

MOCA will be opening its doors with an event this July 1st, 2009 showcasing ten short films about Chinatown made by slightly more experienced Directors:
The Guy with the Cigarette directed by Miguel Arteta
Church Basement Bomb Shelter directed by Patty Chang
New York Night Scene directed by Jem Cohen
Kiwi Lotion directed by Cary Fukunaga
I Can’t Wait directed by So Yong Kim & Bradley Rust Gray
Fortune Cookie directed by Amir Naderi
Chinatown: In Their Own… More

CHILDREN OF INVENTION will have its Manhattan premiere as the Centerpiece Presentation of the 32nd Annual Asian American Int’l Film Festival this coming month.  We… More

In search of a male voiceover actor of any age, who is a fluent speaker in Mandarin or Cantonese and can read Chinese. The actor… More

CASTING CALL
Whitney Independent Study Program
Art, Non-Narrative Film Installation “A Measure of Remorse” (working title)
To be exhibited… More

A mother and daughter find themselves being evicted from their new apartment in NYC's Chinatown and are faced with the decision to stay or move… More

TORTILLA PUDDING, a comedy/drama with an Award-Winning Writer/Director/Producer and Cinematographer (both with MFAs from the film school at New York University and film festival experience),… More

Featuring AAFilmLab Members Amy Chang & Sean Tarjoto

Written by K.S. Stevens
Directed by S.H. Varino & K.S. Stevens
Performed… More

With AAFilmLab Member Shou Zhang

Come to the theatre district of Manhattan to watch an original show that pokes fun at what… More