Elisa's been drunk blogging again. I check our moveable type account, and there's a half-written entry started at 4:00A. where were you last night miss elisa?
if you haven't yet, check out our photos from the last 7 days on our flickr site.
thanks to lia chang and all our photogs!
also, a special shout out to all the festival party people!
...and they don't even know it. Jan is the most flexible, pardy-hardy beer sponsor ever (Singha - yeah!). Plus, boy can dance the goofiest squeaky-shoed-shuffle-while-balancing-a-bottle waggle ever seen in public. Thoroughly corny yet doesn't give a care. If you're lucky, he'll pull those moves again at the Closing Night Ceremony + afterparty tomorrow.
As long as we're handing out props, I'd like to buy Ron the manager of Forbidden City a cold one. Actually, he wouldn't need it - he was pouring himself plenty last night. Whenever we drink there, he's always willing to play with us, which just makes us that much thirstier.
Thanks, dudes!
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Did you come through the AAIFF yet? If you have, see if you can get yourself spotted...
Okay, sorry we haven't written. We've been too busy to type or recovering from a hard night. Elisa, the original M.A.T.H. Club mustachioed extraordinaire has been hung over and tired to give us her reports.
Did we tell you about Opening Night?
Let me try to remember...
justin at the press line
The M.A.T.H. Club is the young Friends of ACV, comprised of a collective of writers, artists, and cultural enthusiasts. The M.A.T.H. Club will be hosting parties and events throughout the Festival, highlighting some of the best programs for you.
FINISHING THE GAME afterpartay
THURSDAY, July 19, 10:30pm
Forbidden City
212 598 0500
212 Avenue A b/w 13th + 14th Streets
L to 1st Ave @ 14th St. (walk along 14th Street 1 block toward Ave A, turn right on Ave A, then walk ½ block)
4,5,6, N,R,W to Union Square (walk along 14th Street 3 blocks toward Ave A, turn right on Ave A, then walk ½ block)
After the Opening Night presentation + gala at Asia Society, the M.A.T.H. Club party starts downtown at Forbidden City. Ching chong dang! FREE – invite your friends!
Need xtra credit?: buy 1 sake, beer, or specialty cocktail and get 1 free (11p-midnight).
Saturday, 7/21, 10:30pm
UNDOING afterparty
White Rabbit
212 477-5005
145 E. Houston b/w Eldridge + Forsyth Streets
F to 2nd Ave @ Houston (walk along Houston 1 block toward Eldridge)
Marlboro – yes. Pinkberry – no!
The M.A.T.H. Club is glad it’s finally Saturday! We’re celebrating with Chris Chan Lee and Sung Kang of UNDOING, a stylish film noir set in L.A.’s Koreatown featuring cigarettes, guns + the Koreans who wield them. Put down those protractors and raise your (eye)glasses. FREE!
Buy tix to the screening and Q&A here:
http://aaiff.org/2007/films/film_detail.php?i=196
Also check out Museum of Chinese in the Americas’ Chinatown Film Project party:
Saturday, 7/21, 10:00pm
If you have problems reading this, go to www.koreanx.net/moca
The Museum of Chinese in Americas (MoCA), with New York's premiere event promoters, Elements Nightlife, invite you to celebrate the launch of the MoCA's exciting Chinatown Film Project. Join our hosts, star actors Sung Kang, of the upcoming Undoing and previously of Too Fast Too Furious and Roger Fan, of the upcoming Finishing the Game and previously of Annapolis as we kick off this exciting initiative. Proceeds from the event will benefit MoCA/Chinatown Film Project. Come celebrate on July 21st at Jade Terrace with our hosts and special guests Chris Chan Lee, director of Undoing and Phil Yu of the influential AngryAsianMan.com <http://www.angryasianman.com/> .
WHERE: Jade Terrace (top floor of China Club)
268 West 46th Street at 8th Avenue
WHEN: Saturday, July 21st, 10:00pm - closing
WHO: Ladies/Guys 21+
GUESTLIST: Ladies free before 11pm/$10 before midnight
Guys $10 before 11pm/$15 before midnight
RSVP to angela@sixnyc.com or eubin@sixnyc.com for reduced guestlist by July 19th at 5pm. Questions? Please call 212.619.4785 x 106.
Thursday, 7/26, 10:30pm
DARK MATTER / YEAR OF THE FISH afterparty
Forbidden City
212 598 0500
212 Avenue A b/w 13th + 14th Streets
L to 1st Ave @ 14th St. (walk along 14th Street 1 block toward Ave A, turn right on Ave A, then walk ½ block)
4,5,6, N,R,W to Union Square (walk along 14th Street 3 blocks toward Ave A, turn right on Ave A, then walk ½ block)
Revenge of the M.A.T.H. nerds!
Tonight, we rule. Celebrate the New York Premieres of DARK MATTER and YEAR OF THE FISH: surreal stories of alienation + Cinderella dreams. FREE!
Buy tix to the Centerpiece screening of DARK MATTER, Q&A, + Reception here:
http://aaiff.org/2007/films/film_detail.php?i=124
Buy tix to the YEAR OF THE FISH screening + Q&A here:
http://aaiff.org/2007/films/film_detail.php?i=207
Saturday, 7/28, 10:30pm
NEVER FOREVER afterparty
White Rabbit
212 477-5005
145 E. Houston b/w Eldridge + Forsyth Streets
F to 2nd Ave @ Houston (walk along Houston 1 block toward Eldridge)
Never Forever! KIT! Have a great summer!
Following the Closing Night presentation of NEVER FOREVER, the M.A.T.H. Club closes out the 30th festival with a bang (and a “slosh,” and probably an “oops,” too). FREE!
Buy tix to the Closing Night Screening + Reception here:
http://aaiff.org/2007/films/film_detail.php?i=160
Everyone knows Elisa had quite the time at our No Malice pizza party. But being the poster-girl for excess that she is, she's now missing. I know, I know, we're all worried, but she's gone through benders like this before, and we're pretty sure she's okay. This is the latest photo ACV has of her taken at No Malice. Funny, I guess Bali Shag tobacco and pepperoni does put hair on your face? Anyway, there have been reports of her playing catch in Prospect Park, and giving batting tips to little sluggers. Somehow, she even has internet access. If you do see her, please contact ACV immediately, and DO NOT approach her by yourself- that is, unless you have a pacifying can of Skoal to tame her rage, or a tall boy of Coors.
We just want her to come back safely, so keep your eyes out, friends. Also, we'll be accepting shaving cream and razors for Eliza's post-discovery grooming expenses.
Keep a lookout, everyone!
Mchee
This sign is supposed to say "No Malice Palace" in beautiful stained glass letters, but I'm too hung over to properly crop the photo - sorry.
Why are my belly and chest red? Why did I get to work 2 hours late? How come I only remember things in bits + pieces? Oh yes, that’s right: it was a late night meeting of the M.A.T.H. club. Dronk fockers! I resent you all + will now blog about you.
The M.A.T.H. club is the young friends of Asian CineVision, comprised of a collective of writers, artists, and cultural enthusiasts. They’ll host parties and events throughout the Asian American International Film Festival, highlighting some of the best programs. No one really knows why it’s called the M.A.T.H. Club – must stand for “Movies And Things Here!” or “Mingle with Alcoholics Til it Hurts” (more likely). After what I saw/think I did last night, am seriously questioning my participation in their deceptively unassuming little parties. Art nerds, with their hidden powers of coercion, now frighten the crap right out of me.
Last night was their first party - the unofficial Festival kickoff, at No Malice Palace http://www.nomalice.com/ and like all things Festival, it was over.the.top.
Filmmaker Steve Mallorca, instigating something or other.
No Malice Palace was PACKED with about 150 people, the garden was lovely, and the stars were out: actress Theresa Ngo of TIE A YELLOW RIBBON, filmmaker Susie Lim of UNRAVEL, filmmaker Steve Mallorca of SLOW JAM KING, music video director Shilpa Mankikar of GET OVER, screenwriter Michael Choi of CRANES (winner of the screenplay competition), and screenwriter Charles Vogl of NEW YEAR BABY were among the semi-trashed. The pizza was free, TASTY, plentiful. Lots of chatter in the air about the upcoming FREE preview screening of Colma http://www.colmafilm.com/ (the hysterical musical spoof centering on three awkward high school friends on the eve of graduation) on Monday, July 2, 8pm at Anthology Film Archives (email graiguhlin@15minutespr.org to RSVP). Also, lots of anticipation building for festival films like DARK MATTER http://aaiff.org/2007/films/film_detail.php?i=124 (based on the true story of a Chinese American physics Ph.D. student who stormed into a department meeting and shot five before turning the gun on himself) and the Music Video Show shorts program http://aaiff.org/2007/films/program_detail.php?i=14.
Finally, heard rumors that the M.A.T.H. Club is throwing another party after the screening of UNDOING http://aaiff.org/2007/films/film_detail.php?i=196 on Saturday, July 21. More to come.
Instead of running through some boring narrative of what happened, I’ll sum up the kickoff party with a single vignette – in contest format! First one to respond correctly gets a prize (use the “Comment” button):
One of the interns at this table drunk-dialed Festival Co-director Sonjia Hyon. Which one was it???
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