2020 certainly presents a year of firsts, –including the first mostly online presentation (save for select drive-in screenings!) for the world’s largest showcase of Asian American film, Caamfest Forward. This has also been our first time visiting the festival, albeit virtually. After seeing the festival wrap up in the last week, we have listed below the awards alongside their jury statements.
Narrative Award
Jury Members: Hanna Huang, Melanie Elvena, Valerie Soe
Winner: Defnition Please, Dir. Sujata Day
Jury Statement: Sujata Day’s Definition Please is a captivating story of family, friendship, vocabulary, expectations, and not allowing oneself to be defined by a singular moment. With standout performances by Day, Lalaine, Ritesh Rajan, Anna Khaja, and Maya Kapoor, each brings depth and humor to their well-written, fully unfolding characters.
Jury Mention: Chosen Fam, Dirs. Natalie Tsui and Lindsay Sunada
Jury Statement: Lindsay Sunada Natalie Tsui’s web series Chosen Fam is a kicky,...
Narrative Award
Jury Members: Hanna Huang, Melanie Elvena, Valerie Soe
Winner: Defnition Please, Dir. Sujata Day
Jury Statement: Sujata Day’s Definition Please is a captivating story of family, friendship, vocabulary, expectations, and not allowing oneself to be defined by a singular moment. With standout performances by Day, Lalaine, Ritesh Rajan, Anna Khaja, and Maya Kapoor, each brings depth and humor to their well-written, fully unfolding characters.
Jury Mention: Chosen Fam, Dirs. Natalie Tsui and Lindsay Sunada
Jury Statement: Lindsay Sunada Natalie Tsui’s web series Chosen Fam is a kicky,...
- 10/27/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Valerie Soe is a writer and experimental video-maker living and working in San Francisco whose work’s main focus is on the perception of Asians in American culture. Her productions include “Picturing Oriental Girls: A (Re) Educational Videotape” and “All Orientals Look The Same”.
Since 1986, Valerie Soe has produced nearly two dozen short films and documentaries, which examine gender, pop culture, identity, and anti-racism struggles. Her work has received dozens of awards, grants, and commissions, and exhibited at venues such as the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum in New York City, on cable and broadcast television, and at film festivals worldwide. Her essays and articles on Asian and Asian American art, film, culture, and activism have been published in books and journals including Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism; Afterimage; Asian Film, and Amerasia Journal, among others. Soe is the author of the blog beyondasiaphilia.
Since 1986, Valerie Soe has produced nearly two dozen short films and documentaries, which examine gender, pop culture, identity, and anti-racism struggles. Her work has received dozens of awards, grants, and commissions, and exhibited at venues such as the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum in New York City, on cable and broadcast television, and at film festivals worldwide. Her essays and articles on Asian and Asian American art, film, culture, and activism have been published in books and journals including Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism; Afterimage; Asian Film, and Amerasia Journal, among others. Soe is the author of the blog beyondasiaphilia.
- 11/22/2019
- by Ina Karpinska
- AsianMoviePulse
San Fransisco's Roxie Theater, the oldest continuously running cinema in the United States and the second oldest theater in the world, has launched a Kickstarter campaign with the hope of raising $60,000 by Dec. 12. Any contributions made in the name of the Roxie Theater will support the final phase of its transition into a sustainable 501c3 non-profit organization and help to keep the unique venue a bastion of independent filmmaking. Each week, in order to rally further donations and enthusiasm, the Roxie Theater campaign will feature shorts by filmmakers who have been affected positively by the Roxie's support, such as John Waters, Barry Jenkins, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Valerie Soe, Jane Reed, Zachary Booth, Everything is Terrible, Scarlett Shepard, Mike Ott and Michael Tully. Though differing in approach, the shorts represent each filmmaker and his or her relationship to the theater (Valerie Soe's nostalgic clip highlights her first Hong Kong movie at the Roxie in.
- 11/13/2012
- by Justin Krajeski
- Indiewire
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