If you are delivering your entry by hand: Entries must be delivered to the Asian CineVision office by 8 p.m. EST sharp. Look through the Final Checklist and have everything ready.

NO EXCEPTIONS.
NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED.

For the sake of your team and for the sake of your film, please save yourself some grief and GET THERE EARLY!

Review the Submissions page for details.

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To all who attended, thank you for joining us for a historical moment together.  Never before have I seen such a charged group of talented filmmakers and actresses ready to take the world by storm.

To all who are out of town and participating from different areas, we missed you dearly.

Last night was a magical night, with Matte Chi(Interactive Marketing Director, AAFilmLab), Diana Lee(Festival Director, Asian CineVision), Nusrat Durrani(General Manager from MTV World), and myself addressing the crowd. 

MTV News was covering the show, and much press was following the story.  We definitely sent fireworks off for the whole nation to see!

Much gratitude to my dedicated team at the AA Film Lab:

Monica Bhasin, Coordinator
Matte Chi, Interactive Marketing Director
Mayur Khandelwal, Theme and Judging Director
Nelson Wang, Guidelines Director
Colin Justin Wan, Marketing & Sponsorship Director
Joyce Yung, Events Director

Simon Lo on Photography

And Marie Choi our terrific Intern!

Much gratitude to Asian CineVision:

Risa Morimoto, Executive Director
Diana Lee, Festival Director

Tomoko their cool intern!

And of Course MTV World

Nusrat Durrani
Lem Lopez
Riad Saha
Juan Herrera
Regan Waters
Erica Bryndza
Trish Sarson
Monica Balough
Cheriyan John
Akshay Bhansali
Chris Farks

And their terrific Intern staff!

And of course our supporting sponsors:
Indika(James Versoto Creative Director, Chris, Studio Manager)
IKU Worldwide(Ronnie and Karen we love you! Terrific Food)
ReEvents(Angela Gee and YiPing Lee)
Ashley Lin(Who by the way gave a $1000 in prizes!!  Top 3 winners are recieving a full set each!!)
Pepsi

Media Sponsors:
Angry Asian Man
Asiancemagazine.com
Gothamist

Our Judges:
ELLEN KURAS
MARCI PHILLIPS
KAROL MARTESKO-FENSTER
GEORGIA LEE
SASIE SEALY
JEFF YANG
KEN PARK

At this moment you must all be working feverishly to complete your films.  We wish you all the best in creating your art.  Express yourselves.

Derek Ting

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Ladies and Gents,

This year’s THEME is:

AKA

REMINDER OF ADDRESS IF YOU ARE MAILING!!!  IT’s SUITE 300. Asian CineVision, Inc. 133 West 19th Street, Suite 300 New York, NY 10011

If you have questions during the contest, you can email us at or call the following numbers during the event:

Nelson Wang
(917) 304 7528
Saturday Noon - Sunday 5:00 PM

Mayur Khandelwal
(415) 717-4449
Friday 8:00 PM until Saturday Noon
Sunday 5:00 PM until Sunday 10:00 PM

Please check this space through out the event for possible updates.

Go forth and make your movies!

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Press Release - June 17, 2005 (PDF 105KB)

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The Launch Party will be held tonight from 6-9 PM at LIGHT in NYC. We will be unveiling the theme at 8PM both at the party as well as online so be there or watch this space.

HIGHLIGHTS:
- The Unveiling of THE THEME
- IKU Catered Event: Shoot with a full stomach
- Asiance Magazine: Begins report from Launch Central
- MTV News Desi: Will be transmitting the unveiling and checking out teams!
- Peer Review: Mingle with your competition toe-to-toe and eye-to-eye
- Goodie Bags: Pepsi & MTV giveaways
- Raffle (Ashley Lin Products)
- MTV World to Represent
- Unparalleled Excitement!!

Light
125 E 54th St
NY, NY 10022
(Between Park and Lexington Avenues)
Directions: F at Lexington Ave; 6 at 51st St

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