The AAFilmlab will help produce three short films in the upcoming 2005 Season with its members. We'll have three script contests to select the winning screenplay. The details will be announced at the next workshop meeting (this wednesday) as well on the website. How do you become a member? It's easy enough, the first step is to show up to the workshop. We'll answer any questions you have together. Agenda Announcement / Discussion of Script Contest Overview of AAFilmlab's Upcoming Season Script Reading Our next meeting: Wednesday August 10, 2005 7pm - 9:30pm 222 East 34th St. 5th Floor Conference Room Google Map *Please RSVP, refreshments welcome.

The Asian American Film Lab is preparing itself for the new year. We're calling all brothers and sisters to come join the discussion and furthermore to give weight to those words and invoke action. Help each other produce new works, exchange knowledge, discover or if need be create inspiration in each other. Most importantly come to the workshop to make film. Our next meeting: 222 East 34th St. 5th Floor Conference Room Wednesday July 27, 2005 7pm - 9:30pm Google Map *Please RSVP, refreshments welcome. $1 donations for lateness and for non-RSVPs.

June 29, 2005 Workshop Meeting: WED 7-930pm

****REGISTER!! If you haven’t Registered, register at http://www.aafilmlab.com, you’ll be able to put your info up on line!****

RSVP RSVP RSVP RSVP ASAP - Notate if you are bringing
a guest.
Hey folks, here’s your chance to meet your fellow
filmmakers and help them work on their films.

Please be PROMPT!!!

222 E 34TH ST 5th FL CONF ROOM LEFT ELEVATOR BANK,
coming out on the first door on the right down the
hallway. some notes:

REFRESHMENTS PLEASE! PLEASE BRING A GOODIE FOR US ALL
TO SNACK ON. EMPTY HANDEDNESS RECIEVES A BIG FROWN! $1
FOR LATENESS, 1$ FOR NO RSVP

AGENDA

7:00pm Check in

7:15pm Amy Chiang:
Will Lead discussion on the next Short Film Project. Show up if you want to be a part of the next short film!!
—Timeline, Commitment, process

8:15pm Script Reading:
David.
—Will need actors to show up to be cast to read.

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 for 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
Juan Herrera
Regan Waters
Riad Saha
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

Lighting for Film and Video: Activity Wed 7-9:30pm

RSVP RSVP RSVP RSVP ASAP - Notate if you are bringing a guest.

Hey folks, here's your chance to meet your fellow filmmakers and help them work on their films.

Please be PROMPT!!!

222 E 34TH ST 5th FL CONF ROOM LEFT ELEVATOR BANK, coming out on the first door on the right down the hallway. some notes:

REFRESHMENTS PLEASE! PLEASE BRING A GOODIE FOR US ALL TO SNACK ON. EMPTY HANDEDNESS RECIEVES A BIG FROWN! $1 FOR LATENESS, 1$ FOR NO RSVP

AGENDA

7:00pm Check in

7:15pm Chien Huey: Lighting for Film and Video: Activity

Chien Huey gives a hands on demonstration of what it takes to light for film and video.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn!

8:15pm Workshop Projects!

We are holding a planning session to decide what the next project the workshop will undertake. Our last project was the short film "Paper Dogs".

What will be next?!! Come out to find out.

AAFilmLab member, Carl Li will be in a reading/workshop/performance of a new play Ore, or Or!!

"A zen exploration of the gap between truth and convenient fictions that employs the known facts about General Tomoyuki Yamashita and his legendary gold to illuminate the tangled love lives of four disaffected New Yorkers- Calvin Kanayama, a Japanese-American man with a passion for Star Trek, his girlfriend Debbie Goldberg, a Jewish woman who loves to taunt her family by dating the goyim, her roommate Sean O'Connell, a homo who's trying not to date straight men anymore, and his fag hag Kathy Eaton, a WASP model who's sporadically studying astrology and Buddhism."

Directed by Laura O'Brien.
Starring: Emma Canalese, Danelle Eliav, Rebecca Hirota
Carl Ka-Ho Li, Shawn McLaughlin, and Enoch Wu
Movement consultant Sacha Iskra

Two performances:
Wednesday, 12/17 at 8:30pm.
Saturday 12/20 at 4:30pm.

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Film Title: LOADED
Status: Non-Union
Length: 30-minute short film
Format: Digital Video
Shooting: We shoot for two seperate weekends. One in mid-Feb and the 2nd on late April.
Location: Shooting takes place w/ in one hour on Manhattan.
Character Required: DADDY - Daddy is a 40-ish year old Asian male. Within the duration of the film, Daddy ages 13 years. Based on the actor hired for DADDY, dialogue between Daddy to CARY, his daughter, will take place in the Korean, Japanese or Chinese language. This particular language choice will depend on what makes sense. It is not necessary that the actor playing Daddy actually speaks this language, though it would be a plus. We can just translate several lines and we'll learn them in that language.

Synopsis: DADDY, a 40 yr old Asian male, is a recent widower (as the film opens) living in Arkansas with his daughter, CARY (Cary opens the film at 8 years of age). Daddy's non-sexual companion is BENNY, a 40 yr old native to Arkansas. Benny and Daddy are co-dependents in their relationship to one another. The 2 of them treat Cary 'nicely' but with tremendous neglect, Cary grows up treated as a 30 year old, not as a kid. In 2001, during a particular incident, the strained relationship between Daddy & Benny and Cary reaches its climax and
Cary (now 23) fleas the house, never to return.

If you are an exceptional female actor, please contact us for the role
of older Cary (23).

Contact:
Jon Stemmler
Madelyn Miss Productions
email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
(M) 917-941-1555
Mention you heard of this casting from the Asian American Film Lab.

http://www.aafilmlab.org
Asian American Film Lab is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Membership and all contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest
extent of the law.

The 1st Annual Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival Presented by HBO has invited KUNG FU GRANNY to be part of their FESTIVAL FAVORITES Screening!
The screening is Tuesday, December 9th and sponsored by The Greater Philadelphia Film Office at the Prince Music Theatre.
The film was written, directed and produced by Myra Sito Velasquez, a 2008 BlueCat Lab Finalist for the KUNG FU GRANNY short screenplay and 2008 BlueCat Competition Finalist for her feature screenplay DIANA. KUNG FU GRANNY is based on Myra’s feature screenplay of the same title. Other AAFilmLab Members credited for KUNG FU GRANNY include: Sunah Kim, David Hou and Peter Chin. For more info on the film, please visit: http://www.myravee.com
For More Info on the festival, please visit: http://www.phillyasian.bside.com/2008/films/kungfugranny_phillyasian2008