For more than 60 years, Godzilla has captivated audiences and ignited imaginations around the world, with recent wildly popular reboots in both the U.S. and Japan, and several sequels/spinoffs currently in production. “Ever since Ishiro Honda’s 1954 Godzilla first rampaged across screens, its title monster has become both Japan’s best-known pop culture export and a universal symbol of mass destruction,” notes film critic and writer Mark Schilling. “But Godzilla has also cast a long, scaly shadow obscuring Japan’s other live-action contributions to the sci-fi/fantasy genre.” [Read More]

Flushing Town Hall and Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York are pleased to collaborate with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company t o present an unprecedented lineup in CrossCurrent IV, featuring the 3 outstanding dance artists – Nai-Ni Chen, Kun-Yang Lin, and PeiJu Chien-Pott – on Sunday, March 5th at 1 PM. A panel discussion moderated Andy Chiang, Executive Director of Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, will follow the one-hour performance. [Read More]

Registration opened today for the Film Lab’s 13th Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout (“Shootout”), which will take place in early June. Filmmakers began registering online at www.film-lab.org for this worldwide filmmaking competition, designed to promote ethnic and gender diversity in media, in which filmmaking teams are given a common theme at the start and then have 72 hours to write, shoot, edit, and complete short films up to five minutes in length. This year, the Film Lab says it intends to focus on the meaning of “American” – what does it really mean to be an American? Who “deserves” to be considered an American? “The idea came from one of our Board members, Aaron Woolfolk,” explained Film Lab President, Jennifer Betit Yen. “And the official tagline this year, ‘Stand Together,’ came from co-Shootout coordinator Cici Chu. We want to focus on what brings our diverse and heterogeneous nation together and on our common humanity.” [Read More]