The Center for Asian American Media and HBO® are hosting a special screening and conversation with the winners of the 2020 HBO APA Visionaries Short Film Competition on Thursday, February 4 at 6:00 p.m. PST/9:00 p.m. EST on Facebook Live.
The 3 finalist films, Tiffany So’s Fine China, Johnson Cheng’s Lonely Blue Night, and Thomas Percy Kim’s Si, explore the theme of “Breaking Barriers.”
They will share their filmmaking journeys, inspirations, and takeaways from the program and the industry. The program will be hosted by actress/director Lynn Chen (Saving Face, I Will Make You Mine), and the conversation moderated by Dino-Ray Ramos, Associate Editor at Deadline Hollywood and creator of the New Hollywood Podcast.
The theme for the 2021 APA Visionaries Short Film Competition is “Taking the Lead.” Films should portray Asian Pacific Americans as being at the forefront of a given narrative, embracing the spirits of trailblazers, heroes, and luminaries through a unique lens.
Submissions will be accepted at FilmFreeway until April 1, 2021 at 11:59 pm PST. Learn more here, and view submission rules below Submit Your Short Film to HBO APA
This program is sponsored by HBO APA Visionaries.
HBO APA Visionaries:
HBO Asian Pacific American (APA) Visionaries is a short film competition that provides emerging directors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent the opportunity to showcase their work. Judged by a panel of HBO executives, industry leaders, and fellow APA filmmakers, the competition seeks to identify cinematic storytellers who offer unique perspectives of the Asian Pacific American experience.
This program is sponsored by:
Rules & Terms
FREE TO SUBMIT. There is no entry fee to submit your film to this Competition.
1. Director and Co-director(s) must be a resident of one of the 50 United States or Washington, D.C.
2. Films must have been directed by a person of Asian or Pacific Islander descent [i.e., descendants of the people of the Far East, Southeast Asia, Indian subcontinent or Pacific Islands (China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands and Samoa)].
3. Director and Co-director(s) must be at least 18 years of age and of the age of majority in their state of residence (i.e., 19 years of age in Alabama and Nebraska; 21 years of age in Mississippi) as of 4/1/21.
4. Films must be an original live action narrative (no documentaries or animation).
5. Running time (inclusive of credits): 10-15 minutes. Film must be a minimum of 10 minutes in length; submissions shorter than 10 minutes in length will be disqualified. Films must be a maximum of 15 minutes in length (inclusive of title sequence and closing credits); if a submission is longer than 15 minutes in length, only the first 15 minutes of the Film will be judged. Videos longer than 17 minutes will be disqualified.
6. Films must be in the English language or contain accurate English subtitles (common foreign words/phrases are acceptable without subtitles).
7. Film must not be publicly available online through September 30, 2021.
8. Film must have commenced principal photography on or after January 1, 2020.
9. Film must not have had any previous exhibition on broadcast or cable (by means of any method or medium) or online.
10. Employees of Home Box Office, Inc. (“Sponsor”), Warner Media, LLC., Don Jagoda Associates, Inc. (“Administrator”), The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (“CAPE”), Visual Communications, FilmFreeway, Vimeo, Inc., YouTube, and their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies (collectively, the “Promotion Entities”) and the immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each are not eligible.
11. Once completed, submit your film to the HBO APA Visionaries Short Film Competition via FilmFreeway. Follow the on-screen directions to create an account on FilmFreeway and complete your entry. An acknowledgment of the Official Short Film Rules and Official Short Film Competition Release is required to be entered into the Competition.
Submissions for the Competition officially open on January 1, 2021 at 9:00 AM PST and will be accepted until April 1, 2021 at 11:59 PM PST.
12. Limit one entry per person.
Please see Official Rules document (bit.ly/apav5rules3) for more information on the Rules & Terms.
HBO has launched HBO Asian Pacific American Visionaries, a short film competition dedicated to showcasing emerging APA directors with unique perspectives of the Asian Pacific American experience. Three winning films will be awarded cash prizes and make their premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in April 2017 and offered the opportunity to license their film to premiere exclusively on HBO (and/or its on-demand, digital and/or social platforms) during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May 2017. The deadline for entries is November 7, 2016. Join the conversation on Twitter with hashtag #hbovisionaries.
The first competition of its kind for HBO, APA Visionaries aims to help further the dialogue about race, diversity and representation in Hollywood while offering unique and creative depictions of the Asian Pacific American experience.
General criteria for submission includes:
Running time: 10-15 minutes, inclusive of credits
Films must have been directed by a person of Asian or Pacific Islander descent
Director must be a U.S. citizen or legal resident 18 years of age or older, and of legal age of majority in his/her state of residence
Films must be in the English language or contain English subtitles (common phrases acceptable)
Films must be a festival premiere
Films must have commenced principal photography on or after October 1, 2015
Films must not have had any previous exhibition on broadcast, cable or online.
Employees of HBO and any other Time Warner entity and their immediate family members are not eligible to participate
For complete details, visit www.hbovisionaries.com.The judging panel is comprised of HBO executives and a panel of industry experts, including representatives from the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment.
“At a time when the most personal of stories are also the most universal, the diversity of our storytellers is more important than ever,” stated Jackie Gagne, VP Multicultural Marketing at HBO. “Our competition is designed to celebrate the unique experiences and unsung talent that exist within the Asian Pacific American community. We are also delighted and honored to have the support of incredible organizations with unparalleled legacies of promoting APA visionaries.”
“It’s inspiring to see a global entertainment brand like HBO take a leadership role in creating opportunities for Asian Pacific American filmmakers,” said Francis Cullado, Executive Director of Visual Communications, the organization that produces the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. “The exposure provided for the winners of this competition is truly incredible and worthy of our community’s full support.”
“This competition aligns directly with our organization’s mission to champion AAPI filmmakers and artists,” said Michelle K. Sugihara, Executive Director of CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment). “We are proud to work with HBO to identify and empower new voices in the community.”
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Lia Chang. Photo by Garth Kravits
Lia Chang is an actor, a multi-media content producer and co-founder of Bev’s Girl Films, making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. Bev’s Girl Films’ debut short film, Hide and Seek was a top ten film in the Asian American Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition, and she received a Best Actress nomination. BGF collaborates with and produces multi-media content for artists, actors, designers, theatrical productions, composers, musicians and corporations. Lia is also an internationally published and exhibited photographer, a multi-platform journalist, and a publicist. Lia has appeared in the filmsWolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and Hide and Seek. She is profiled in Examiner.com, Jade Magazine and Playbill.com.
Warrington Hudlin, Lia Chang and Demetrius Angelo. Photo by Patrick Cashin
Welcome to the wild, wonderful world of Diversity in Action, courtesy of Demetrius Angelo, founder of The Urban Action Showcase & Expo, the premier all-action experiential entertainment platform celebrating diversity and honoring the past, present and future multicultural achievements within the blockbuster Action genre including Adventure, Fantasy, Grindhouse, Action Horror, Sci-Fi, and Supernatural content.
Anita Clay and Manny Brown at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo by Lia Chang
The UASE is the only Action entertainment platform offering both fan and professional experiences featuring the Cinemax Action Short Film Competition.
The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo by Lia Chang
On Wednesday, April 27th, Angelo invited me to the HBO sponsored premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s Black Salt, directed by Ben Ramsey, a live action film based on the critically acclaimed comic book franchise. Black Salt, last year’s winner of the Cinemax Action Short Film Competition, received $10,000 and distribution on Cinemax On Demand and Max Go for 15 months.
The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo by Lia Chang
“What’s amazing about that is that now we have platform where heroes of color will be,” shared Angelo.
Taimak, Lia Chang and Kinyumba Mutakabbir attend The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo by Lia Chang
Owen Ratliff created the Black Salt franchise in an effort to introduce more African Americans into leading superhero type roles.
The film stars Kinyumba Mutakabbir as agent Samuel Tharpe. Kinyumba a rising star from New York, who burst on the scene starring in Keri Hilson platinum music video “Turnin Me On”, and from there he received small roles in “Entourage,” Iron Man 3 and the” Bold and the Beautiful.” Sheena Chou, Michelle Lee, James Lew, XJ Wang, Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom and Ron Yuen are also featured in the cast. blacksaltstorefront.com
Taimak in THE LAST DRAGON
Thanks to Demetrius Angelo for including me on the panel on Action in Diversity which followed the screening, to discuss my action genre roles in The Last Dragon, King of New York, and Big Trouble in Little China. The 30th anniversary of Big Trouble in Little China will be celebrated at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo on November 12th in New York. Click here for more information.
Lia Chang and Donna Noguchi in John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986).
The panel discussion was moderated by Warrington Hudlin, Director/Producer, and also featured Mike Hodge, SAG AFTRA NY president; Kelly Edwards, HBO VP Talent Development and Programing; Kinyumba Mutakabbir, star of Black Salt; Robert “Bobby” Samuels, Actor/Stuntman (First African American in the Hong Kong Stuntmans Association); Vincent Lyn – Actor/Stuntman, Grammy Award Musician (Jackie Chan’s Operation Condor); Taimak, star of The Last Dragon and author of Taimak: The Last Dragon.
Warrington Hudlin, Kelly Edwards, Vincent Lyn, Taimak, Lia Chang, Demetrius Angelo, Kinyumba Mutakabbir, Robert Samuels and Mike Hodge. Photo by Al Cayne/SugarCayne.comWarrington Hudlin moderating panel discussion at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo courtesy of Warrington HudlinTaimak, Lia Chang, Vincent Lyn, Robert Samuels and Kinyumba Muttakabbir at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo courtesy of Vincent LynTaimak, Lia Chang, Vincent Lyn, Robert Samuels, Kinyumba Mutakabbir, Kelly Edwards and Mike Hodge. Photo courtesy of UASETaimak, Lia Chang, Vincent Lyn, Robert Samuels, Kinyumba Mutakabbir, Kelly Edwards and Mike Hodge. Photo courtesy of UASETaimak, Lia Chang, Vincent Lyn, Robert Samuels, Kinyumba Mutakabbir, Kelly Edwards and Mike Hodge. Photo by Al Cayne/SugarCayne.comTaimak, Lia Chang, Vincent Lyn, Robert Samuels, Kinyumba Mutakabbir, Kelly Edwards and Mike Hodge. Photo courtesy of UASEThe Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo by Lia Chang
Warrington Hudlin at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo by Lia Chang
Anita Clay and Lia Chang at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo by Al Cayne/Sugarcayne.com
Lia Chang and Manny Brown at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Al Cayne/SugarCayne.com
Lia Chang at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Al Cayne/SugarCayne.com
TaiMak, Kinyumba Muttakabbir and Manny Brown at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo by Lia Chang
Warrington Hudlin, Lia Chang and Manny Brown at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016.
Lia Chang, Kinyumba Muttakabbir, Fiorella Mallea and John Thomas.
Mike Hodge and Demetrius Angelo at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo by Lia ChangTaiMak, Lia Chang, Kinyumba Mutakabbir and Robert Samuels at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016.Lia Chang, a guest and Kelly Edwards at The Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Al Cayne/SugarCayne.comThe Urban Action Showcase & Expo’s premiere screening of Owen Ratliff’s BLACK SALT at HBO in New York on April 27, 2016. Photo by Al Cayne/SugarCayne.com
Black Salt is an epic thriller merging the world of modern day espionage and political intrigue with the ancient world of martial arts. With time winding down towards world-ending devastation, the fate of mankind rests in the hands of Interpol agent Samuel Tharpe. The minifeature is a precursor to the Black Salt feature film and TV series. www.blacksaltfilm.com
Check out Al Cayne’s great coverage of the Black Salt Premiere here. Special thanks to Al Cayne and Patrick Cashin for their photos.
Al Cayne, Lia Chang and Manny Brown. Photo by Al Cayne/SugarCayne.com
Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.
Lia Chang. Photo by Garth Kravits
Lia Chang is an actor, a multi-media content producer and co-founder of Bev’s Girl Films, making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. Bev’s Girl Films’ debut short film, Hide and Seek was a top ten film in the Asian American Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition, and she received a Best Actress nomination. BGF collaborates with and produces multi-media content for artists, actors, designers, theatrical productions, composers, musicians and corporations. Lia is also an internationally published and exhibited photographer, a multi-platform journalist, and a publicist. Lia has appeared in the filmsWolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and Hide and Seek. She is profiled in Examiner.com, Jade Magazine and Playbill.com.
Congratulations to BD Wong, Aziz Ansari, Randall Park, Constance Wu and Oscar Isaac on their 2016 Critics’ Choice Award nominations in the Television category.
The Critics’ Choice Awards are the newly combined honors from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Journalists Association. The winners of the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards will be announced at the Sunday, January 17th awards gala, hosted by T.J. Miller at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. It will broadcast live on A&E (8/7c), Lifetime and LMN.
BD Wong as White Rose on Mr Robot. credit: USA Network
Wong’s turn as White Rose in the USA Network’s Mr. Robot has garnered him a Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series nod. Over the summer, he reprised his role as Dr. Wu in the blockbuster Jurassic World, which has been nominated for Best Action Movie, Best Sci-Fi Horror Movie, Best Visual Effects, Best Actor in an Action Movie (Chris Pratt) and Best Actress in an Action Movie (Bryce Dallas Howard) in the Film category. Wong has been shooting the FOX Bat-prequel Gotham portraying the iconic Bat-foe Hugo Strange, a brilliant professor and psychiatrist tapped to head up Gotham City’s notorious Arkham Asylum.
Constance Wu and Randall Park in ABC’s ‘Fresh Off the Boat’. Credit: ABC
Fresh Off the Boat‘s Randall Park will go head to head in the Best Actor in a Comedy Series with Master of None‘s Aziz Ansari, who also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Musical or Comedy Park’s Fresh Off the Boat co-star Constance Wu has been nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
Aziz Ansari
Oscar Isaac, who starred as Nick Wasicsko in HBO’s Show Me A Hero, won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television last Sunday, and is nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actor in a Movie made for Television or Limited Series. Show Me A Hero has also been nominated for Best Movie Made for Television or Limited Series and Best Supporting Actress in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series (Winona Ryer).
The Guatemalan-American actor and singer received his first Golden Globe nomination for his starring role in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and is know for his lead roles in A Most Violent Year (2014) and Ex Machina (2015), which has been nominated for Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie, Best Original Screenplay (Alex Garland) and Best Visual Effects.
Oscar Isaac. Photo by Lia Chang
Isaac stars as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron in the seventh Star Wars film – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), and in 2016, can be seen in the ninth X-Men film, X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), as the titular supervillain Apocalypse.
Peter Sohn’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’
Other nominations of note include Peter Sohn’s The Good Dinosaur (Best Animated Feature), The Assassins (Best Foreign Language Film), and Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto (Best Score) for The Revenant.
Congratulations to all of the nominees.
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Ne-Yo – The Wiz Live!
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Winona Ryder – Show Me a Hero
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Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.
Congratulations to BD Wong, Aziz Ansari, Randall Park, Constance Wu and Oscar Isaac on their 2016 Critics’ Choice Award nominations in the Television category.
The Critics’ Choice Awards are the newly combined honors from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Journalists Association. The winners of the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards will be announced at the Sunday, January 17th awards gala, hosted by T.J. Miller at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. It will broadcast live on A&E (8/7c), Lifetime and LMN.
BD Wong as White Rose on Mr Robot. credit: USA Network
Wong’s turn as White Rose in the USA Network’s Mr. Robot has garnered him a Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series nod. Over the summer, he reprised his role as Dr. Wu in the blockbuster Jurassic World, which has been nominated for Best Action Movie, Best Sci-Fi Horror Movie, Best Visual Effects, Best Actor in an Action Movie (Chris Pratt) and Best Actress in an Action Movie (Bryce Dallas Howard) in the Film category. Wong was recently cast in the FOX Bat-prequel Gotham as iconic Bat-foe Hugo Strange, a brilliant professor and psychiatrist tapped to head up Gotham City’s notorious Arkham Asylum.
Constance Wu and Randall Park in ABC’s ‘Fresh Off the Boat’. Credit: ABC
Fresh Off the Boat‘s Randall Park will go head to head in the Best Actor in a Comedy Series with Master of None‘s Aziz Ansari, who also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Musical or Comedy Park’s Fresh Off the Boat co-star Constance Wu has been nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
Aziz Ansari
Oscar Isaac was riveting as Nick Wasicsko in HBO’s Show Me A Hero and has received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for Best Actor in a Movie made for Television or Limited Series and a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television.
Oscar Isaac. Photo by Lia Chang
The Guatemalan-American actor and singer received his first Golden Globe nomination for his starring role in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and is know for his lead roles in A Most Violent Year (2014) and Ex Machina (2015). He stars as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron in the seventh Star Wars film – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), and in 2016, can be seen in the ninth X-Men film, X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), as the titular supervillain Apocalypse.
Peter Sohn’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’
Other nominations of note include Peter Sohn’s The Good Dinosaur (Best Animated Feature), The Assassins (Best Foreign Language Film), and Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto (Best Score) for The Revenant.
Congratulations to all of the nominees.
TELEVISION BEST DRAMA SERIES Empire Mr. Robot Penny Dreadful Rectify The Knick The Leftovers UnREAL
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Hugh Dancy – Hannibal
Rami Malek – Mr. Robot
Clive Owen – The Knick
Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan
Justin Theroux – The Leftovers
Aden Young – Rectify
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Shiri Appleby – UnREAL
Carrie Coon – The Leftovers
Viola Davis – How to Get Away With Murder
Eva Green – Penny Dreadful
Taraji P. Henson – Empire
Krysten Ritter – Jessica Jones
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Clayne Crawford – Rectify
Christopher Eccleston – The Leftovers
Andre Holland – The Knick
Jonathan Jackson – Nashville
Rufus Sewell – The Man in the High Castle
Christian Slater – Mr. Robot
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Ann Dowd – The Leftovers
Regina King – The Leftovers
Helen McCrory – Penny Dreadful
Hayden Panettiere – Nashville
Maura Tierney – The Affair
Constance Zimmer – UnREAL
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Richard Armitage – Hannibal
Justin Kirk – Manhattan
Patti LuPone – Penny Dreadful
Margo Martindale – The Good Wife
Marisa Tomei – Empire
BD Wong – Mr. Robot
BEST COMEDY SERIES black-ish Catastrophe Jane the Virgin Master of None The Last Man on Earth Transparent You’re the Worst
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Anthony Anderson – black-ish
Aziz Ansari – Master of None
Will Forte – The Last Man on Earth
Randall Park – Fresh Off the Boat
Fred Savage – The Grinder
Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Rachel Bloom — Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Aya Cash — You’re the Worst
Wendi McLendon-Covey — The Goldbergs
Gina Rodriguez — Jane the Virgin
Tracee Ellis Ross — black-ish
Constance Wu — Fresh Off the Boat
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Andre Braugher – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Jaime Camil – Jane the Virgin
Jay Duplass – Transparent
Neil Flynn – The Middle
Keegan-Michael Key – Playing House
Mel Rodriguez – Getting On
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Mayim Bialik – The Big Bang Theory
Kether Donohue – You’re the Worst
Allison Janney – Mom
Judith Light – Transparent
Niecy Nash – Getting On
Eden Sher – The Middle
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ellen Burstyn – Mom
Anjelica Huston – Transparent
Cherry Jones – Transparent
Jenifer Lewis – black-ish
Timothy Olyphant — The Grinder
John Slattery – Wet Hot American Summer
BEST ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Kathy Bates – American Horror Story: Hotel
Kirsten Dunst – Fargo
Sarah Hay – Flesh and Bone
Alyvia Alyn Lind – Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors
Rachel McAdams – True Detective
Shanice Williams – The Wiz Live!
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES Childhood’s End Fargo Luther Saints & Strangers Show Me a Hero The Wiz Live!
BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Wes Bentley — American Crime Story: Hotel
Martin Clunes —Arthur & George
Idris Elba — Luther
Oscar Isaac —Show Me a Hero
Vincent Kartheiser — Saints & Strangers
Patrick Wilson — Fargo
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
David Alan Grier – The Wiz Live!
Ne-Yo – The Wiz Live!
Nick Offerman – Fargo
Jesse Plemons – Fargo
Raoul Trujillo – Saints & Strangers
Bokeem Woodbine – Fargo
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Mary J. Blige – The Wiz Live!
Laura Haddock – Luther
Cristin Milioti – Fargo
Sarah Paulson – American Horror Story: Hotel
Winona Ryder – Show Me a Hero
Jean Smart – Fargo
BEST ANIMATION SERIES Bob’s Burgers BoJack Horseman South Park Star Wars Rebels The Simpsons
BEST TALK SHOW Jimmy Kimmel Live Last Week Tonight with John Oliver The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Graham Norton Show The Late Late Show with James Corden The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
BEST REALITY SHOW – COMPETITION Chopped Face Off MasterChef Junior Survivor The Amazing Race The Voice
BEST REALITY SHOW HOST
Ted Allen – Chopped
Phil Keoghan – The Amazing Race
James Lipton – Inside the Actors Studio
Jane Lynch – Hollywood Game Night
Jeff Probst – Survivor
Gordon Ramsay – Hell’s Kitchen
BEST STRUCTURED REALITY SHOW Antiques Roadshow Inside The Actors Studio MythBusters Project Greenlight Shark Tank Undercover Boss
BEST UNSTRUCTURED REALITY SHOW Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Cops Deadliest Catch Intervention Naked and Afraid Pawn Stars
FILM BEST PICTURE The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Carol Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Room Sicario Spotlight
BEST ACTOR
Bryan Cranston Trumbo
Matt Damon The Martian
Johnny Depp Black Mass
Leonardo DiCaprio The Revenant
Michael Fassbender Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne The Danish Girl
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett Carol
Brie Larson Room
Jennifer Lawrence Joy
Charlotte Rampling 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan Brooklyn
Charlize Theron Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Paul Dano Love & Mercy
Tom Hardy The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo Spotlight
Mark Rylance Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon 99 Homes
Sylvester Stallone Creed
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Jason Leigh The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara Carol
Rachel McAdams Spotlight
Helen Mirren Trumbo
Alicia Vikander The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet Steve Jobs
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Abraham Attah Beasts of No Nation
RJ Cyler Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Shameik Moore Dope
Milo Parker Mr. Holmes
Jacob Tremblay Room
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE The Big Short The Hateful Eight Spotlight Straight Outta Compton Trumbo
BEST DIRECTOR
Todd Haynes Carol
Alejandro González Iñárritu The Revenant
Tom McCarthy Spotlight
George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott The Martian
Steven Spielberg Bridge of Spies
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen Bridge of Spies
Alex Garland Ex Machina
Quentin Tarantino The Hateful Eight
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley Inside Out
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy Spotlight
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay The Big Short
Nick Hornby Brooklyn
Drew Goddard The Martian
Emma Donoghue Room
Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Carol
Ed Lachman The Hateful Eight
Robert Richardson Mad Max: Fury Road
John Seale The Martian
Dariusz Wolski The Revenant
Emmanuel Lubezki Sicario
Roger Deakins
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Bridge of Spies
Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo Brooklyn
François Séguin, Jennifer Oman and Louise Tremblay Carol
Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler The Danish Girl
Eve Stewart, Michael Standish Mad Max: Fury Road
Colin Gibson The Martian
Arthur Max, Celia Bobak
BEST EDITING The Big Short
Hank Corwin Mad Max: Fury Road
Margaret Sixel The Martian
Pietro Scalia The Revenant
Stephen Mirrione Spotlight
Tom McArdle
BEST COSTUME DESIGN Brooklyn
Odile Dicks-Mireaux Carol
Sandy Powell Cinderella
Sandy Powell The Danish Girl
Paco Delgado Mad Max: Fury Road
Jenny Beavan
BEST HAIR & MAKEUP Black Mass Carol The Danish Girl The Hateful Eight Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Ex Machina Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant The Walk
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Anomalisa The Good Dinosaur Inside Out The Peanuts Movie Shaun the Sheep Movie
BEST ACTION MOVIE Furious 7 Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Sicario
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Daniel Craig Spectre
Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Tom Hardy Mad Max: Fury Road
Chris Pratt Jurassic World
Paul Rudd Ant-Man
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Emily Blunt Sicario
Rebecca Ferguson Mission:Impossible – Rogue Nation
Bryce Dallas Howard Jurassic World
Jennifer Lawrence The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
Charlize Theron Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST COMEDY The Big Short Inside Out Joy Sisters Spy Trainwreck
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Christian Bale The Big Short
Steve Carell The Big Short
Robert De Niro The Intern
Bill Hader Trainwreck
Jason Statham Spy
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Tina Fey Sisters
Jennifer Lawrence Joy
Melissa McCarthy Spy
Amy Schumer Trainwreck
Lily Tomlin Grandma
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE Ex Machina It Follows Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM The Assassin
Goodnight Mommy
Mustang
The Second Mother
Son of Saul
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Amy
Cartel Land
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
He Named Me Malala
The Look of Silence
Where to Invade Next
BEST SONG Fifty Shades of Grey
“Love Me Like You Do” Furious 7
“See You Again” The Hunting Ground
“Til It Happens To You” Love & Mercy
“One Kind of Love” Spectre
“Writing’s on the Wall” Youth
“Simple Song #3”
BEST SCORE Carol
Carter Burwell The Hateful Eight
Ennio Morricone The Revenant
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto Sicario
Johann Johannsson Spotlight
Howard Shore
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Garth Kravits, Lia Chang and Wilkine Brutus, content director of Oogeewoogee.com. Photo by Lia Chang
Thank you PAAFF’15 Festival Director Rob Buscher, Guest Services Coordinator Reema Kanzaria and Development Director Phuong Nguyen for organizing a lovely Filmmakers’ dim sum brunch at Sang Kee Noodle House in Philadelphia.
Phuong Nguyen, PAAFF’15 Development Director and Lia Chang. Photo by Garth Kravits
Bev’s Girl Films’ Hide and Seek doesn’t screen until Saturday, Nov. 21st in the Free Women’s Shorts Program, but making the trek from New York to attend the dim sum was a wonderful opportunity to meet the other filmmakers in town for the festival.
PAAFF’15 Guest Services Coordinator Reema Kanzaria and Festival Director/Programmer Rob Buscher and Abu Shahed Emon (Jalal’s Story). Photo by Lia Chang
I chatted up PAAFF’15 Festival Director Rob Buscher and sat next to Abu Shahed Emon, the writer and director of Jalal’s Story, which was recently chosen as the Official Selection to represent Bangladesh in the Foreign-Language Category of the 88th Academy Awards.
Abu Shahed Emon (Jalal’s Story), Reema Kanzaria, Kamrul Islam, Rob Buscher Anika Haq Mim, Megha Kadakia (Miss India America) and Tauhida Sumi. Photo by Lia Chang
It was good to see producer Scott Chops Jung of Philly’s legendary Mountain Brothers, the first Asian American Hip Hop group signed to a major record label, whose multimedia program was the centerpiece of The Festival on Saturday night.
Scott Chops Jung. Photo by Lia Chang
Scott Chops Jung and Lia Chang. Photo by Garth Kravits
Actor Peter Shinkoda, who can currently be seen on Marvel’s Daredevil as Nobu via NETFLIX was a special guest of The Festival.
Peter Shinkoda. Photo by Lia Chang
Peter Shinkoda and Gherald Alaman. Photo by Lia Chang
Lia Chang and Peter Shinkoda. Photo by Garth Kravits
Peter Shinkoda, Zia Zuik, Rishi Bhilawadikar and Gherald Alaman. Photo by Lia Chang
Wilkine Brutus, content director of Oogeewoogee.com and his team were on site to interview the filmmakers.
Sang Kee Noodle House. Photo by Lia Chang
Zia Zuik and Gherald Alaman. Photo by Lia Chang
Hany Desiyanti, Budi Kurniawan and Wilkine Brutus of Oogeewoogee.com. Photo by Lia Chang
Photo by Lia Chang
Photo by Lia Chang
Photo by Lia Chang
Lia Chang and PAAFF’15 Festival Director Rob Buscher. Photo by Garth Kravits
Reema Kanzaria and Rishi Bhilawadikar, writer and producer of FOR HERE OR TO GO? Photo by Lia Chang
Garth Kravits. Photo by Lia Chang
Rishi Bhilawadikar, writer and producer of FOR HERE OR TO GO?. Photo by Lia Chang
Phuong Nguyen and the PAAFF’15 staff. Photo by Lia Chang
PAAFF’15 Festival Director Rob Buscher. Photo by Lia Chang
Photo by Lia Chang
Photo by Lia Chang
Photo by Lia Chang
The Festival continues through Nov. 22nd. For more information about PAAFF’15 visit phillyasianfilmfest.org and follow on social media @paaff or #PAAFF15.
The 2015 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival is presented by Comcast NBC10 Telemundo72 Comcast Spectator; and made possible through the generosity of Premier Sponsor Aetna; Founding Sponsor HBO; Partner Sponsors Wells Fargo, PHLDiversity, Pennsylvania Department of Drug & Alcohol Programs, and Samuel S. Fels Fund; and Prime Sponsors PECO, Jefferson Health, Pacific Islanders in Communications, Greater Philadelphia Asian Studies Consortium, Allstate, and Hepatitis B Foundation.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) is the first and only event of its kind in Philadelphia, bringing in audience members from all over the region and Asian American filmmakers, actors, and leaders, from around the world. The festival also hosts numerous screenings year-round independently and in partnership with regional arts and community organizations.
Garth Kravits and Lia Chang. Photo by Rob Buscher
PAAFF’s parent organization, Philadelphia Asian American Film & Filmmakers, is a nonprofit organization founded in 2008 to showcase films by and about Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans for the city of Philadelphia and Greater Philadelphia region. They aim to present captivating programs that engage, inspire, and connect our community both to one another and the non-Asian mainstream.
The 3 finalist films, Tiffany So’s Fine China, Johnson Cheng’s Lonely Blue Night, and Thomas Percy Kim’s Si, explore the theme of “Breaking Barriers.”
HBO has launched HBO Asian Pacific American Visionaries, a short film competition dedicated to showcasing emerging APA directors with unique perspectives of the Asian Pacific American experience. Three winning films will be awarded cash prizes and make their premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in April 2017 and offered the opportunity to license their film to premiere exclusively on HBO (and/or its on-demand, digital and/or social platforms) during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May 2017. The deadline for entries is November 7, 2016. Join the conversation on Twitter with hashtag #hbovisionaries.
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