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Congratulations to Asian American International Film Festival '12 Award Winners
The Asian American International Film Festival handed out the 2012 Awards for feature and short films before the closing night screening of Michael Kang’s Knots, at the Clearview Chelsea Cinemas in New York on August 5, 2012. The awards ceremony was emceed by spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai.
Knots director Michael Kang and writer and star Kimberly-Rose Wolter at the 35th Asian American International Film Festival Closing night screening of Knots, at the Clearview Chelsea Cinema in New York on August 5, 2012. Photo by Lia Chang
This year, the Asian American International Film Festival, presented by Asian Cinevision (ACV), featured 50 New York premieres-narrative and documentary features, and shorts-of all genres from The Philippines, Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, UK, Canada and across the Asian Diaspora.
Presenter Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, a spoken word artist, presents the AAIFF Audience Choice Award for Narrative Feature to Lily Mariye for Model Minority at the Clearview Chelsea Cinemas in New York on August 5, 2012. Photo by Lia Chang
Audience Choice Awards:
The
Audience
Choice
Award
for
Narrative
Feature
was
presented
to
Lily
Mariye,
an
actor,
screenwriter
and
director,
whose
impressive
debut
feature MODEL
MINORITY,
follows
the
story
of
L.A.
teenagers
trying
to
navigate
the
treacherous
world
of
peer
pressure,
drug
dealers,
juvenile
hall
and
dysfunctional
families.
August 9-25: Victor Lirio stars with an all-star cast in psycho-drama Two Rooms in New York
New York City
August 9 - August 25, 2012 The Lion Theatre 410 West 42nd Street, New York
Victor Lirio (Resurrection, The Female Heart) and an all-star cast are on stage in Manhattan this week with the war-based psycho drama Two Rooms.
Named Best Play of the Year by Time Magazine when it debuted in 1988, Two Rooms is about Michael (Connor), an American professor who is held hostage in a dark room in Beirut. His wife, Lainie (Warner), holds a vigil for him in an empty room in their home outside of DC. As events in the Middle East begin to spin out of control, the possibility of bringing Michael safely back home becomes more tenuous.
Victor
Lirio
is
joined
by
fellow
actors
Curran
Connor
(Julius
by
Design,
39
Steps),
Dawn
Evans
(The
Ladies
of
the
Corridor,
The
Sopranos),
and Bree
Michael
Warner (Balm
in
Gilead, Six
Feet
Under)
in
the
lead
role
of
Lainie,
are
set
for
Diverse
City
Theater
Company’s
(“DCT”)
production
of Two
Rooms,
by
Pulitzer
Prize
and
Tony
Award
nominee
Lee
Blessing,
directed
by
Jamie
Richards. Two
Rooms has
a
preview
performance
on
Wednesday,
August
8
at
8pm,
and
opens
for
a
limited
run
on
Thursday,
August
9th
at
8PM
at
Theatre
Row’s
The
Lion
Theatre
located
at
410
West
42nd
Street
in
New
York
City.
Performances
run
through
Saturday,
August
25th.
Tickets
are
$19.25
and
can
be
purchased
on Telecharge.com or
by
calling
212-239-6200.
Being 'Asian' is an advantage says Jeremy Lin
"I think the advantage of being an Asian basketball player in America is that no one expects anything from you, and no one thinks you are going to be good," Lin told a press conference in Taipei. Give it to Lin to say it how it is. And good luck on the next chapter of your amazing career, Jeremy.
And
if
you
are
not
one
of
the
thousands
of
viewers
of
Jeremy
Lin's
Skype
chat
this
week
with
a
5
year
old
named
Naim
and
his
family
check
the
link
out
below.
Naim
was
reportedly
devastated
by
the
Knicks
decision
to
not
match
the
Houston
Rockets
offer.
When time came for the Skype chat with Jeremy, young Naim was nearly speechless. Most telling is Lin's attention and patience to chatting with Naim and his family. With the awkward silence waiting for 5 year old Naim to chat with Jeremy (Naim barely made a peep), and with Naim's parents filling in the silence with chatter, a typical phony-baloney big-headed basketball star would have said thanks and good bye. But Lin seemed to be sincerely interested in having a conversation with young Naim and his parents and gave the family quality time. Kudos to Lin for being a class act.
Here's a link to Jeremy's chat with Naim and his family. (click on the full story headline for the link to activate).
Derek Ting's movie $upercapitalist directed by Simon Yin debuts in Theaters, Online and Video on Demand
August
19,
2012 (Updated
August
29,
2012
with
screening
dates
and
video
of
SAG
Foundation's
conversation
with
cast
members
Linus
Roache
and
Michael
Park, and
producer/writer/actor
Derek
Ting.)
by
Lia
Chang
Don't
miss
these
screenings!:
(more
listings
below)
SAN
FRANCISCO
-
August
24
-
30
at
the
Landmark
Opera
Plaza
Cinema,
601
Van
Ness
Ave,
San
Francisco,
CA
94102
LOS
ANGELES
-
August
31
-
September
6
at
the
Laemmle's
Noho
7,
5240
Lankershim
Blvd.,
Los
Angeles,
CA
(North
Hollywood,
CA
91601)
Kudos to Derek Ting, for taking control of his destiny, pursuing his dream and realizing his vision with his eleven year journey from inception to the big screen. Derek is the writer, producer and star of $upercapitalist, a financial thriller set in Hong Kong directed by award-winning filmmaker Simon Yin. Ting's film debuts in theaters this month, and is available now through your local cable TV station's video-on-demand, and online at many outlets including iTunes and Amazon Video. (Top image L to R: Lia Chang, $upercapitalist writer, producer and lead actor Derek Ting, producer and Derek's wife Joyce Yung Photo by Francois Bonneau).
I met Derek and his wife, Joyce Yung, a producer on the film, when the Screen Actors Guild Foundation hosted a special 'Conversations' advance screening of $upercapitalist, at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway in New York.
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