Next AAFilmLab Meeting this Thursday!

Thanks to everyone who came to our last meeting.  We are in the midst of formulating all of your feedback and helping to decide what’s best for our members in the long run.  Until then, we are looking forward to our meeting this coming Thursday, Sept. 2nd and will be going back to roots; our original WORKSHOP format.  This is an opportunity for us to help challenge and improve each other’s work, grow as a filmmakers and strengthen the bonds between us.  It’s a great way of progressing by problem solving while building community.  So, if you have an unfinished work, please bring it in to workshop!

We are still seeking unfinished works to workshop including, but not limited to:
1. Screenplays
2. Films in pre/post production
3. Acting monologues
4. Storyboarding, art direction including set, lighting, costume designs, sound design (including music) and editing choices, a specific scene challenge…basically any thing that isn’t complete that you need an outside perspective on to help you complete your vision.
 
If you’d like to be a part of this collaborative process as either subject or audience, please RSVP via our Facebook Event.  If you don’t have Facebook, please (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).  To submit an unfinished work, please email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with “Workshop Submission” in the subject line, including a description of your project (including format and length) as well as the feedback your are seeking.
Looking forward to see you there!  Details below.
Sincerely,
AAFilmLab

Asian American Film Lab “Workshop” meeting
Thursday, Sept 2nd
6PM to 7:30PM
@ Showbiz
19 West 21st Street b/w 5th and 6th Ave.

Upcoming AAFilmLab Meeting Schedule:
Thursday,  Oct. 7th, 6 PM to 8 PM
Thursday, Nov. 4th, 6 PM to 8 PM
Thursday, Dec. 2nd, 6 PM to 8 PM

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