Historic 2017 Asian Pacific Film Festival Hosts Entrees from 31 Countries; First Year as Academy Qualifying Festival in the Animated Short/Live Action Short Film Categories; 25TH Anniversary of The Los Angeles Uprising

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Published on Friday, 21 April 2017 14:54

This year's 33rd LAAPFF competition line-up for Grand Jury Awards for North American feature films is rich with stories and insights from important and nuanced perspectives from creative talent across the spectrum. 

COMPETITION NARRATIVES

CARDINAL X Dir.: Angie Wang

CHEE AND T Dir.: Tanuj Chopra

COLUMBUS Dir.: Kogonada

GOOK Dir.: Justin Chon

I CAN I WILL I DID Dir.: Nadine Truong

THE LOCKPICKER Dir.: Randall Okita

NORMAN JONES Dir.: Mike Sakamoto

WEXFORD PLAZA Dir.: Joyce Wong

WINDOW HORSES Dir.: Ann Marie Fleming

COMPETITION DOCUMENTARIES 

●95 AND 6 TO GO Dir.: Kimi Takesue

●A TIME TO SWIM Dir.: Ashley Duong

●FINDING KUKAN Dir.: Robin Lung

●GHOST MAGNET ROACH MOTEL Dir.: Shinpei Takeda

●MELE MURALS Dir.: Tadashi Nakamura

●MIXED MATCH Dir.: Jeff Chiba Stearns

●RESISTANCE AT TULE LAKE Dir.: Konrad Aderer

●SAVE MY SEOUL Dir.: Jason Y. Lee

●UNBROKEN GLASS Dir.: Dinesh Sabu

●WHO IS ARTHUR CHU? Dirs.: Yu Gu and Scott Drucker

The LAAPFF is proud to be an Academy qualifying festival for the Short Film Awards.  The Festival was approved by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences late last year with this 33rd edition being the first where recipients of the Film Festival's qualifying awards will be eligible for consideration in the Animated Short Film/Live Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards® without standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.  The winner of the Golden Reel Award will be eligible to enter the Academy Short Film competition.  The contenders include:

●AND SO WE PUT GOLDFISH IN THE POOL Dir.: Makoto Nagahisa

●COIN BOY Dir.: Li Chuan-Yang

●DEER GOD Dir.: Tomorrow Mingtian

●HOLD ON Dir.:  Christine Turner

●I AM JUPITER I AM THE BIGGEST PLANET Dir.: Matthew Victor Pastor

●PRIA Dir.: Yudho Aditya

●HOLD ME (CA CAW CA CAW) Dir.: Renee Zhan

●LOLA LOLENG Dir.: Cheryl Tagyamon

●REMEMBER Dir.: Shunsaku Hayashi

"We're very excited and honored for our Festival to be a Short Film Academy qualifying fest," said Francis Cullado – Executive Director of Visual Communications. "In our continued effort to support our filmmakers, we hope this designation opens new avenues of recognition for them."

Additionally, the Film Festival establishes this year the Golden Reel Award for Excellence in Documentary Short Films.  This stellar inaugural class includes:

●FOREVER, CHINATOWN Dir.: James Q. Chan

●OCCASIONALLY, I SAW GLIMPSES OF HAWAI'I Dir.: Christopher Yogi

●PLEASE COME AGAIN Dir.: Alisa Yang

●TOUGH Dir.:  Jennifer Zheng

●UNDER THE SAME SKY Dir.: Yoyo Li

After Closing Night on May 4 in Los Angeles, the Festival will continue with a Festival Encore Program May 5 through 11 in Buena Park at the brand new CGV Buena Park 8 with encore screenings of select Film Festival films; and a special slate of works by award-winning filmmakers on the recent achievements in Vietnamese cinema.  Check the Festival website for this schedule.

"It's our firm belief that the wonderful offerings of Festival Week 2017 should be seen by as wide an audience as possible, and what better way to accomplish that than by partnering up with our longtime partners CGV CInemas to expand our footprint into Orange County, in their brand-new CGV Cinemas at The Source in Buena Park," said Abraham Ferrer.  "In addition to presenting encore screenings of select festival faves, we're excited to team with CGV and the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association to offer the best of new Vietnamese cinema."

For program information, a complete listing of sponsors and partners, and to purchase tickets, please visit festival.vconline.org. Tickets are on sale now.