Registration is now open for the 6th Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout with new online registration this year!
AAFilmLab members get an additional $20 discount off the Regular Shootout entry fees. Just sign up to be a member first. (See the right hand column—>).

This year is shaping up to be a great year, so to keep the submissions coming, we are making a special announcement!

Register before June 19th for the Regular Registration fee of only $45.

That’s right folks, thanks to the Asian Arts Alliance JP Morgan SOAR grant, we’re keeping the Regular Registration fee at Early Bird prices.
We would like to get as many filmmakers involved as we can.

Step 1. Pay your registration fee via Google Checkout

 

Step 2. Register your team online here

Step 3. Download the Submission Documents which must be filled out and sent in with your entry.

Or download the PDF registration packet to print out and mail in!

Also new this year will be acceptance of submissions by miniDV or Quicktime MOV file on data DVD! Full details are in the PDF registration packet.

I think everyone who attended the last workshop will agree that the Improv Session led by Jennifer and Nora was a resounding success. AFFilmlab would like to thank them both for creating such a great atmosphere for us to explore in and for preparing the activities. We all came out of the session invigorated, inspired and inured with a new found respect for acting. This week we shift gears a little bit and hopefully take some of what we learned through that small intro to improvisation and through surviving our tortured lives into actionable scripts.  A month has already passed ladies and gentlemen and now it’s time to let loose your demons through the ancient art of screenplay writing. This workshop meeting AAFilmLab invites all of you who’ve got some story to tell (and all of you do) to come and take the first step in turning your vision into a short film. The script contest rules will explain all the details, but all you need to know is that we want to read your work and we want to help bring your thoughts to fruition. This opportunity is here for the taking. So bring in your stuff and let’s take it from there. Agenda for Upcoming Workshop Submitted Script Readings Pitch Your Script Script Selection by Democratic Process Announcements Our next meeting: Wednesday September 7, 2005 7pm - 9:30pm 222 East 34th St. 5th Floor Conference Room Google Map *Please RSVP, refreshments welcome. P.S. Don’t sweat the “competition” thing. Remember these are your peers and your friends. And we luve you.

THE BEACHHEAD: APA SHORTS MAKE THEIR LANDING

The AAFilmLab and The ImaginAsian will be screening short films created by members of the AAFilmLab as well as a new face or two this THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2006, 7:30PM - and the filmmakers are going to be looking for some support. This is the first in a series of screenings that The ImaginAsian has graciously offered to co-sponsor in order to get these films screened and to have our voices heard and we'd love to show them just how much we want our work to be shown in this city. Buy tickets online - http://www.theimaginasian.com/nowplaying/index.php?cid=900&date=20060413#100000468 and save some money or come straight to the theater this thursday and spread the wealth. The AAFilmLab proceeds will go towards more events like these as well towards the Script Competitions we hold each year (the… More

Last night’s script contest turned out to be a gut-wrenching, heart-breaking test of wills. The result is a testament to the power of the written word to change people’s minds and we hope, their lives.

Three contestants, each with their own distinctive styles took their turn trying to convince, seduce and reason with their peers that their script was the one which the AAFilmLab will have the pleasure of co-producing. In the end, after two dead-heat ties and some further deliberation, the democratic process, and the power of the Asian American filmmaking people prevailed.

As such, without further ado, and with unfettered pleasure, the AAFilmLab would like to announce the winner of the FALL 2005 script competition:

Jane Valentine

Congratulations goes to Jane and to the other contestants, Nelson Wang and Lawrence Wong for conceiving and completing their scripts. Finally and most of all, the AAFilmLab would like to… 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