HBO and VC Launch the 2018 HBO APA Visionaries Short Film Competition

/
HBO and VC Launch the 2018 HBO APA Visionaries Short Film Competition

The HBO Asian Pacific American Visionaries Short Film Competition is dedicated to showcasing emerging APA directors with unique perspectives of the Asian Pacific American experience. The theme for the 2018 APA Visionaries Short Film Competition centers around the concept of “home”. Three winning films will be awarded cash prizes and make their premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in April 2018 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 2018. The deadline for entries is November 1, 2017.

Read More

Asian-American Filmmakers to Hollywood: Give Us a Platform to Create Without Compromise

/
Asian-American Filmmakers to Hollywood: Give Us a Platform to Create Without Compromise

NBC Asian America sat down with four filmmakers — Jeff Chiba Stearns (“Mixed Match”), Nadine Truong (“I Can, I Will, I Did”), Robin Lung (“Finding Kukan”), and Tanuj Chopra (“Chee and T”) — during the 33rd Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film Festival to talk about the challenges they’ve faced when knocking on Hollywood’s gates, what their biggest concerns are when “whitewashing” becomes the focus of films, and how audiences can encourage better representation in the media they consume.

Read More