Today at 4pm at @artsemerson.bsky.social, join BAAFF, SEAFN, VietLead and @aarw.bsky.social for a FREE special presentation of Taking Root: Southeast Asian Stories of Resettlement in Philadelphia. Q&A w/ community leaders following screening. artsemerson.org/events/takin...
If you're interested in becoming a part of the BAAFF programming team and helping us identify strong candidates for the main festival program, please fill out the form below. We welcome anyone to apply, no film degree required! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#BAAFF2025 #OPENCALL FOR #FILMS! We are seeking narratives, dramas, comedies, shorts, documentaries, animations, music videos and experimental films for our 17th annual #filmfestival in October! Submit now at #FilmFreeway!
filmfreeway.com/baaff @artsemerson.bsky.social @brattletheatre.bsky.social
Image is of a Cambodian American young woman who is a basketball player, sitting with her head in her hands at a game.
#AshleyChea, the high school baller featured in HOME COURT, now plays for #Princeton and faces off against #Brown tomorrow in Providence @4pm. Save the date and catch #HOMECOURT at @artsemerson.bsky.social on 3/22 at 4:30pm, with filmmaker #ErikaTanamachi. artsemerson.org/events/home-...
Join us on Feb 22 for a special encore screening of #AudienceAwardWinner Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement in recognition of the #DayofRemembrance. Featuring live musical introduction by and Q&A w/ #NobukoMiyamoto herself!
artsemerson.org/events/nobuk...
Join us for the #worldpremiere of The Truer History of the Chan Family, preceded by Ten Times Better on Feb 9 at @artsemerson.bsky.social!
artsemerson.org/events/the-t... #ProjectingConnections #ChineseAmerican #EugenieChan #GeorgeLee
Join BAAFF, @roxfilm.bsky.social and #CinefestLatinoBoston for a special screening of #LookIntoMyEyes on Feb 7 at @artsemerson.bsky.social!
artsemerson.org/events/look-... #SharedStories #psychics #NYC #healing #connection
Check out some of the #LNY events around town! www.wgbh.org/culture/2025...
We're announcing 15 films supported in the first round of our Building Bridges Documentary Fund. With support from the Doris Duke Foundation, we're elevating storytelling about U.S. Muslim experiences. caamedia.org/blog/2025/01...
THE WEDDING BANQUET: Andrew Ahn honors the original with this modern redux filled with queer love and joy while mindfully layering healing energy for generational trauma. Everyone is gonna fall in love with Han Gi-chan. Lily Gladstone soars. Yuh-jung Youn is a force. Joan Chen is an icon.
THE STRINGER: What starts as a story about giving proper credit for the famous "napalm girl" pic turns into a riveting doc that interrogates the treatment of regional freelancers, crab mentality within diasporas, protecting your integrity, and the power of good ol' fashioned journalism.
Here is a thread of my thoughts of #Sundance films and episodics that I have watched. Enjoy.
I was all up in my feelings while watching Andrew Ahn's THE WEDDING BANQUET redux...
thisisdiaspora.substack.com/p/andrew-ahn...
There are many issues in our society that are not being recognized such as gentrification and discrimination; and we are here to help raise awareness to these concerns. (2/2)
Hello! We are the largest Asian American film festival in New England. Our interest resides in the passion to bring Asian American films to the public and to educate them on the experiences that Asian Americans face in society. (1/2)
