The Asian American Film Lab™ (“Film Lab”) today premiered the top ten films of the annual 72 Hour Film Shootout competition (the “Shootout”) as part of the 37th annual Asian American International Film Festival (“AAIFF”). AAIFF is New York’s leading festival for independent Asian and Asian American film and video, and the first and longest-running U.S. festival of its kind. The top Shootout films will also screen at The Asians on Film Festival in Los Angeles, at the Time Warner Media Center and have a chance for televised broadcast on both the Film Lab’s television series, Film Lab Presents, which airs on NYCLife, New York City’s flagship media station and on CrossingsTV. [Read More]

Asian Women in Business (AWIB) is hosting an event titled Reinventing Yourself at Any Age, featuring a group of ordinary women who made extraordinary decisions to transform their careers. The interactive discussion will take place on Thursday, August 21, 2014 from 6:00-9:00pm at the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, 1 Centre St., 19th Fl. South, New York, NY. [Read More]

This year’s Asian American International Film Festival highlights several Taiwanese films focused on rural experiences and grassroots activism in Taiwan, in response to urbanization and globalization. This timely theme consists of the following films: THE RICE BOMBER, 100 DAYS, A TIME IN QUCHI, and short film A BREATH FROM THE BOTTOM, featured in MEMORIES FROM THE STRIKE. In addition, Tainan-based stop-motion animation artist Hui-ching Tseng will lead two stop-motion workshops with local youth. The program is sponsored by Taipei Cultural Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York. [Read More]