ACV Announces Award Winners of 33rd Asian American International Film Festival
July 23, 2010 (New York City) — Asian CineVision (ACV) announced the award winners of the Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF10) Wednesday night at the Chelsea’s Clearview Cinemas in New York City. Actors Louis Ozawa Changchien and Karin Anna Cheung presented the honors to five filmmakers before the festival’s Closing Night Presentation of Quentin Lee’s The People I’ve Slept With.
Taiwanese director Chung Lee won the Excellence in Short Filmmaking Award, which was accepted on his behalf by his wife Annie Hsu. Lee’s short film Mochi explores the tangled and complex relationship between Yulia, a live-in caretaker, and her antagonizing employer, a bitter old man whose offensive behavior alienates himself from his only son.
Meanwhile, the award for Best Emerging Director in Documentary Feature went to Stephanie Wang-Breal for Wo Ai Ni Mommy, a documentary that follows a young Chinese girl’s transition from China to her adoptive home in Long Island, New York
Swedish-Taiwanese filmmaker Hakon Liu received the award for Best Emerging Director in Narrative Feature for Miss Kicki, a story that follows a middle-aged Swedish woman and her estranged teenage son through their misadventures in Taipei.
Finally, the ceremony closed with Gina Chun accepting her reward for the CinemaMe Short Film Competition. The contest, sponsored by Toyota, asked non-professional filmmakers to offer their take on Asian American film in under five minutes. Chun will be awarded a grand prize of $3,000 for her film The Receiver, a video diary that recounts a conversation between an aspiring filmmaker and her disapproving grandmother.
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