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THE GOAL: WRITE, SHOOT AND EDIT A SHORT FILM IN 72 HOURS
Here's the stuff you'll need to take part in this competition.
Please read the official rules carefully. Please also note that the maximum length of your finished film is 6 minutes. There is no minimum length required.
THE FIRST STEP:
SUBMIT AN ENTRY FORM, TEAM ROSTER, AND THE NON-REFUNDABLE ENTRY FEE AS DETERMINED BELOW.
2006 ENTRY FEES
Below are the non-refundable entry fees for a group application
postmarked and submitted by:
EARLY REGISTRATION - $100
POSTMARKED BY: May 12, 2006
GENERAL REGISTRATION - $150
POSTMARKED BY: June 2, 2006
LATE REGISTRATION - $200 $150
MUST ARRIVE BY: June 8, 2006
Complete all forms and mail to:
Asian CineVision, Inc.
133 West 19th Street, Suite 300
New York, NY 10011
Make Check Payable to: Asian CineVision, Inc.
Questions?: Email
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 winner of the first competition will be showing his short).
Most importantly, all you filmmakers who'd like a chance to screen your film at New York's premier Asian American movie theater, come to the screening to catch a few Asian American shorts, chat with the filmmakers during the Q&A, then submit your work to be considered for the next screening to be held at The ImaginAsian theater. We're waiting for more work and you know you deserve to be up there too.
FILMS:
"Factory"
At first glance Factory appears to depict the daily life of a typical factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. When we look more closely however we don't see clothes and sneakers but instead rubber feet and steel joints. Factory shows how Cambodians are working to address their country's legacy of war, poverty and landmines amidst one of the largest amputee populations in the world. ::Sonya Rhee:: Currently a producer of ethnographic films for Ogilvy & Mather, Sonya Rhee's previous documentary, which she co-directed and co-produced, Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam, aired nationally on PBS as part of POV's program for 2003 and 2004. The film is currently archived at the Library of Congress as part of the Veterans History Project.
"J.J."
"The first time I saw her..." An unidentified woman narrates a dreamlike encounter she has with a girl. ::Jae-Ho Chang:: Jae-Heo received a BFA in Film/Video/Animation at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently attending NYU Graduate film school. He lives with his cat Hans Schmoozer in Manhattan.
"Mirror, Mirror"
::Colin Justin Wan:: Hailing from Singapore, Colin has been pivotal in making events such as these at the AAFilmLab become reality. He is currently an active member in good standing.
"ManHang"
::Hyunsuk Kim:: A member of AAFilmLab's All-Star International Cast, Hyunsuk, who originally hails from Korea, guides the AAFilmLab into discovering and conquering the path where art lives.
"Paper Dogs"
::Matte Chi:: Dropped from the sky and tossed from the sea, Matte is determined to take root upon this earth. Matte was born in Korea and raised in Queens.
EVENT DETAILS
THE BEACHHEAD: APA SHORTS MAKE THEIR LANDING
THURS, APRIL 13, 2006
7:30PM
The ImaginAsian Theater
59th Street (btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave)
Matte Chi, President AAFilmLab, The Workshop (2005-)
While I write this during the sleepy hours of a Sunday afternoon, the Asian American community is silently but unstoppably growing. At this very moment the Asian Americans who are accounted for, form 4% of the population of the United States. We Asian Americans will double our population in breakneck speed mirroring the historic growth of Hispanic-Americans. In a mere 50 years time we will stand on the platform alongside Hispanic Americans and African Americans to rival the majority in the United States (non-Hispanic White Americans will cling to a 50.1% majority).
During this time of unprecedented growth there is an incredible amount of work to do if we want to participate in the grand democratic conversation. As history has proven, physical numbers alone will not inherently provide the means of expression for our beliefs nor will sheer numbers alone provide the social structures necessary to distribute our expression. We must participate and we must commit to participating in the daily conversations of our lives.
And by what means can we converse amongst our peers and to the diminishing majority? As has been said before truthfully and correctly, it is through the Arts where expression will always be found.
I have found within myself and within this generation the incipient need to discover and communicate our ideals, our goals, our desires. Discovery is the most important element here. Though what we’d like to communicate is inchoate and continuously changing, the need to share this knowledge as it is gained has become an incessant drumbeat ever increasing in volume as each day progresses.
What better medium than film to discover and communicate these ideas? What medium can provide a better arena from which to continue the grand conversation taking place among us? Film’s intrinsically collaborative nature provides the testing ground from which to uncover a singular voice, or even better a chorus of voices, we all wish to find. Film provides the comraderie which we as social beings desire and need to survive, to reach that not too distant future when we will have more at stake and more voices that will want hearing. Film with its multidisciplinary breadth is perfectly designed to take advantage of the roles we have traditionally taken in our quest to find happiness through our until now obligatory lives.
Though fifty years may seem too far away, by then as elders, that is exactly the moment when we will need to have a stable, viable outlet of expression. Without expression we will find ourselves living in a world where nothing we say will ever be heard, and nothing we want will ever be given. We have the rest of our lives to work. Take this opportune moment to make that work worthwhile. Find a means to communicate the meaningful. Join us and pick up a camera, learn from experience and share that knowledge. Convince others to do the same, and you’ll find they will need little convincing.
The mission is simple: Create. Create honestly, continuously and share it. Above all Create.
Matte Chi
Chung Tsang and his friends have put together a shorts screening nite in Chinatown. The inaugural screening is this Friday, January 20, 2006. They will be showing some earlier works by Michael Kang.
DETAILS
30 Mott Street, NYC
(by Woo Hop)
7PM SHARP till 8pm.
Q&A afterwards.
Hope to see some AAFilmLab peoples make it out on this expedition! Copy and pasted but still very valid and respectable bio of M.Kang follows below: Michael Kang is a Korean American filmmaker based in New York. His feature film directorial debut “The Motel"which was produced by Indie veteran director Miguel Arteta (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005 and is scheduled for its theatrical release through Palm Pictures in June 2006. “The Motel” is the recipient of the Humanitas Prize as well as both the Best Narrative Feature from the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Best Dramatic Feature from The San Diego Asian Film Festival. The film was also awarded the 2003 Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker’s Award. In addition, Michael was a fellow at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab in 2002. Most recently, Michael was honored with a residency at the prestigious MacDowell Colony. He also received the 2002 Geri Ashur Award in screenwriting through the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2001, he won the 24th Annual Asian American International Film Festival screenplay competition.
His short film “A Waiter Tomorrow” received both the FilmCore Post-Production Grant, 1998 and the Freaky Film Festival, Audience Choice Award 1999.His film “Japanese Cowboy” was a co-recipient of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant, 1999 and the Special Jury Prize at Film Fest New Haven, 2000. Michael worked as second unit director for Wayne Wang on the film, Because of Winn-Dixie (where he got to direct a live bear).
Director - filmography
The Motel (2005)
Japanese Cowboy (2000)
A Waiter Tomorrow (1998)
Writer - filmography
The Motel (2005)
Japanese Cowboy (2000)
A Waiter Tomorrow (1998)
Actor - filmography
Asian Pride Porn (2000) .... Delivery Man
A Waiter Tomorrow (1998) .... Mike
Producer - filmography
Japanese Cowboy (2000) (producer)
A Waiter Tomorrow (1998) (co-producer)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director - filmography
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) (second unit director)
Editor - filmography
Japanese Cowboy (2000)
Stunts - filmography
A Waiter Tomorrow (1998) (stunts)
Himself - filmography
Last Man Running (2003) .... Himself
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
- 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 -
Tribeca puts on shortsFest 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
. 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
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Friday, October 24, 2008
AAFilmLab Members Zooey Park (director) and David Hou (actor) will have their short film “Popsicle Stick” make its Canadian premiere at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival on Nov 7. Two films from the 2007 72 Hour Film Shootout also make their Canadian premieres on Nov 7: “Since You’ve Been Ong” directed by Frank Yeean Chan; and “You’ve Got Male” directed by Christopher Nguyen and Ryan Kim.
http://www.vaff.org/festival
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Korean American Film Festival NY (KAFFNY) is a one-day New York showcase of works by emerging and established Korean filmmakers and performers.
KAFFNY 2009 seeks films that express the points of view of filmmakers / performers of ethnic Korean descent from around the world - to see what and how they see the world around them.
KAFFNY is now accepting short film submissions from filmmakers / performers of ethnic Korean descent, of any nationality. All genres are welcome: narrative, animation, music video, documentary, experimental etc.
There is no entry fee. Submission deadline is November 30. Please send DVD submissions, NTSC Region 0 or 1, to:
KAFFNY
c/o Barrel
23 W 36th Street, Suite 401
New York, NY 10018
KAFFNY is scheduled for February 2009!
For other inquires, email
Visit http://www.kaffny.com.
KAFFNY is co-sponsored by New York University Tisch School of the Arts and The Korea Times.
Friday, October 10, 2008
TSA SCENE STUDY COURSE – TRACEY MOORE
TRACEY MOORE
October 22nd - December 10, 2008
WEDNSDAYS, 7PM-9PM – 8 WEEKS
Course Fee: $600.00
REGISTRATION: OCTOBER 15, 2008- 7PM
$300.00 Deposit Due October 15, 2008
$300.00 Balance Due October 22, 2008
Location: Cap 21, 18 W18th St (Btwn 5th & 6th Ave), 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011
CALL (212) 465-2580
Email:
AAFILMLAB MEMBERS RECEIVE A $50 DISCOUNT OFF PRICE OF COURSE. MENTION YOU ARE AN AAFILMLAB MEMBER WHEN REGISTERING AND PRESENT YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD IN PERSON AT TIME OF REGISTRATION.
For More Information on The Spirited Actor:
http://www.thespiritedactor.com
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