…Sundance Film Festival, Chen has plenty to smile about. “I was going into it really nervous, but it ended up being so much fun,” she says. “It was really cool…
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Filmmaker Sheds Light on Modern Fil-Aussies’ Internal Struggles
…was selected to show at the 2018 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival. Compared with the previous part of the trilogy, this film expresses stronger emotions toward racist and sexiest perspectives against…
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Temporarily Closes Curtains
It’s official: the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival has been pushed back due to COVID-19. Despite earlier reassurances that the LAAPFF would proceed as planned, the festival has been…
Let’s Head Down South: Here’s the San Diego Asian Film Festival 2022 Lineup
…Soo Lee,” a documentary about the unfair arrest of Chol Soo Lee that first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Films from Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea…
Korean American Filmmakers Win Awards at the 2015 White House Student Film Festival
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Two Korean American student filmmakers recently won awards at the 2015 White House Student Film Festival. This is the second year the White House…
Guide to the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
164 programs. 21 countries. Six venues. Don’t even try to hold back. By Oliver Saria The 26th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, produced by Visual Communications, runs April 29…
Get To Know The 5 South Korean Films Showing At Cannes
…South Korean films competing and screening at the celebrated Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 17 through 28. 1. Okja Director Bong Joon-ho, whose films are always layered with…
API Films Making Big Waves at SXSW 2024
It’s that time of year again: South By Southwest Film and TV Festival is back, turning downtown Austin into a hotspot for film buffs, music lovers and tech fanatics. In…
‘Han Gong-ju’ Picked as Best Local Film of 2014 by KOFRA
…has garnered critical acclaim and swept several awards at international film festivals, including the Tiger Award at the 2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Jury Prize, Critics’ Prize and…
June Cover Story: New Jamie Chung Film Brings Attention to Sex Trafficking
…where it was screened concurrently with the film festival. At time of publication, however, the film had yet to secure a national distributor (though, it does have international distribution). This,…
Legends: Take A Look Back At Asian American Hollywood History
…villains in several American war films, including “Back to Bataan” (1945). He received a number of death threats, but continued working in film and television well through the 1970s, appearing…
SKorean Smartphone Film Festival Features Eclectic Entries
…what stories can be filmed with a smartphone camera, and when it’s done correctly, the results can be quite interesting. South Korea’s fourth Olleh International Smartphone Film Festival announced this…
Masala: Filmmakers Jeff Fong, Marie Jamora and Kenya Gillespie Talk the 36th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfo8O1MIWBI It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t been kind to film festivals anywhere. However, events like the 36th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival still celebrate the…
Three Korean Films To Screen At AFI Film Festival
…in Los Angeles that has been attending the festival for years,” said Lane Kneedler, associate director of programming for the festival. “South Korea obviously has some of the best film…
August Cover Story: The Launch of the YOMYOMF Network and What It Means for Asian Americans
…director for both the Hawaii International Film Festival and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and he curates The Short List, YOMYOMF’s program of short films pulled from past…