Official Selections: 2nd-8th LA Asian Film Festivals
Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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Journey to the East
Los Angeles Premiere
A Woman with No Name retrieves her husband’s bones from a gang of mythical Chinese Cowboys.
Director: Eve Liu
Producer: Alex Bendo, Grant Hyun
Writer: Eve Liu
Cast: Karen Zheng, Jonathan Ohye, Criag Ng, Mao Sun
Cinematographer: Mingjue Hu
Art Director: Sean Park
Editor: Eve Liu
Sound Mixer: Paul Hsu
Composer: Bryan Patrick
Eve Liu is a Chinese Australian filmmaker based in New York City. Experimenting with an amalgamation of East West genres and pop culture inspired by the kinetic pulp of everything that is lost and found in translation, she is currently an MFA candidate and recipient of the W.T.C. Johnson Fellowship in film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. This is her first short.
Instagram: @Lius_Control
Kilig!
Animated Short
"A film about a mother and daughter, meeting each other where they are."
A reluctant Filipino-American daughter takes a trip with her mother to the island of Palawan to visit family. Their priorities clash but eventually find a way back to each other.
Director: Kacey Layson
Producer: Achim Mendoza
Writer: Kacey Layson
Cast: Tim Lee (K-Pop Singer), Arianna Basco (Inay), Aurora Blessing Basco (April), Fenix Basco (Baby Cousin), Angelina Regoso (Lola), Regoso & Layson Family (Crowds)
Editor: Kacey Layson
"Kilig!" has won the "Parallax Student Excellence" Award at the Los Angeles Animation Film Festival.
Website: kaceylayson.com
Instagram: @kacey_layson
Junho
Feature
Juhno wanted nothing more than to be a great actor. But when his prestigious acting troupe in Korea is rocked by a #MeToo scandal, he escapes to San Francisco, to start a new life. Unlike Junho's attempt to overcome loneliness, isolation and the loss of his best friend Jin, who was a victim of the scandal, his transgression from the past dislocates him from the present.
Director: David Seok Hoon Boo
Producer: Rebecca Teresia
Writer: David Seok Hoon Boo
Cast: Wonjun Jo, Jae Hong Park, Hanna Jun, Nathan V. Lee, Gwangwon Choi, Yeojin Chung
Cinematographer: Nicholas Finn Myggen
Editor: Daniel Tong
-Winner at Orlando Film Festival 2021 - Best Foreign Feature, Best Director, Audience Choice Feature
-Golden Gate International Film Festival 2022 - Best Foreign Feature, Jury Award, Best Actor(Wonjun Jo)
-Hollywood Independent Filmmaker Awards & Festival - Gold Award for Feature-Drama
Website: junhothemovie.com
Instagram: @junhothemovie
Facebook: @junhothemovie
Just An Ordinary Dinner
Los Angeles Premiere
Animated Short
In this modern family narrative with a mythical twist, cultural and generational divides between a patriarchal father and his rebellious daughter bring a Korean-American family dinner to chaos.
Director: Will Pak
Producer: Will Pak
Cast: Tamia Jackson, Amonda Kallenbach, Intanon Suwannakarn, Kevin Ho, Julia Chien
Keep Warm
After decades of making space for others, an East Asian grandmother finally begins to explore her romantic and sexual self.
Directors: Blair Cannon and Olivia Sulkowicz
Producers: Blair Cannon and Olivia Sulkowicz
Writer: Olivia Sulkowicz
Cast: Shigeko Suga, Geoff Lee, Tom Jenkins, Helen Miko, Kristin Villaluz, Rourke Lee
Cinematographer: Sara Laufer
Editor: Tricia Holmes
Kenshi
West Coast Premiere
Inspired by a true story, Kenshi revolves around Kenshi Zenimura, a Japanese American teenager dealing with a Post World War II America. Before his first baseball game since leaving the WWII internment camps, Kenshi must deal with the social and racial resistance to his return to the field.
Director: Alissa Nguyễn
Producer: Tre Johnston
Writer: Alissa Nguyễn
Cast: Thomas Winter, Scot Shamblin, Charles Curtice, Ethan Wilde, JT Garcia
Cinematographer: Jillian Ruvalcaba
Editor: Jillian Ruvalcaba
Selected for the DC Asian Film Festival.