11TH FILM FEST OCT 21-28, 2010
(Left to Right) Winners Christopher Wong ("Whatever It Takes"), Tadashi Nakamura ("A Song For Ourselves"), Tze Chun ("Children of Invention"), Hwa Jun Lee ("A Green Mountain in the Drawer"), Laura Bari ("Antoine"), and Mark Tran ("All About Dad")
FOR FILMMAKERS
Call for entries for the 2010 festival ended in June. We are currently in the final stages of film selection. Please check back soon for our announcement of selected films.
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General Info
The San Diego Asian Film Festival is competitive, offering awards in the following categories:
- Animated Short
- Documentary Short
- Narrative Short
- Documentary Feature
- Narrative Feature
- Emerging Filmmaker ($1000 prize)
- Grand Jury Prize ($2000 prize)
See who is on our 2010 Jury and who was on our 2009 Jury.
Submit Your Film
We will begin our 2011 call for entries in January. We strongly suggest that you submit to us through WithoutaBox.
Qualifiers
To qualify for our festival, your film must be:
- Produced within two years of our festival date
- Directed, produced, or principally acted by an Asian Pacific Islander
- OR if the director is non-Asian, the film’s subject matter must be Asian
- Available for exhibition in 35mm, NTSC Digitbeta, or NTSC BetaSP
- If in a foreign language, must have English subtitles
Previous Winners
To see who has won awards at the San Diego Asian Film Festival since 2000, click here
Filmmaker FAQ
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