Call for Entries

• The AAFilmLab along with the Imaginasian Theater will be putting together a Spring Shorts program in 2006. All members please submit your work to be included in the selection process. If you haven’t already, you can contact me at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
• The 29th AAIFF call for entries is still open. Visit our website for the entry form as well as other exciting and new programs in the new year as ACV celebrates its 30th anniversary - http://www.asiancinevision.org
• Fellow AAFilmLab member Chung has sent word that there will be shorts screenings at the Silk Road Cafe in Chinatown starting January 20, 2006! They plan to make this a regular night so get your stuff together and email us - (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Tribeca puts on shorts

Fest to add short film section in ‘06
By IAN MOHR

NEW YORK—Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro and his “Hide and Seek” helmer John Polson are collaborating once again: Tribeca will add a short film section in 2006 through a partnership with Polson’s Oz-set Tropfest.

Dubbed Tropfest@Tribeca, new initiative will include eight world-preem shorts, as well as another eight that have previously screened Down Under.

Polson will serve as creative director of (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The helmer began Tropfest after screening a short of his for friends and family 14 years ago at Sydney’s Tropicana Caffe. Event has expanded to a full-on open-air shorts cavalcade that can draw up to 150,000 people to screenings.

Tribeca, also founded by Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, is skedded to run April 25-May 7.

Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&a=VR1117934897&c=1061

Topics:
General Business & Announcements
Workshop (Topic is forthcoming)!!!

AAARI-CUNY (Asian American/Asian Research Institute)
25 West 43rd Street (btwn 5th/6th Avenue)
10th Floor
Room 1009
(Turn right when you get out of the elevator)

RSVP encouraged but not required to: info [at] aafilmlab.org

6th Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout: June 26th - 29th, 2009.
Registration is now open for the 6th Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout with new online registration this year! The competition begins June 26th - 29th, 2009. AAFilmLab members get an additional $20 discount off the Early and Regular Shootout entry fees. For more info and updates:
http://www.aafilmlab.org

Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting!

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
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