Wednesday, March 2, 2011

2nd Annual AmérAsia Film Festival, Mar 3-13


The 2nd Annual AmérAsia Film Festival comes to Montreal from March 3 to 13. Audiences will have a chance to see a selection of Asian comedies, documentaries, dramas, science fiction and short films from Asia, Canada, France, Germany, and the U.S.

The festival opens on Thursday night with a screening of One Big Hapa Family by Vancouver animator Jeff Chiba Stearns. It's an award-winning autobiographical documentary about his inter-racial family. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion on Blending-Generation, Did you say, 'Inter-marriage'?

In addition to all the movies, they will have other events including a Bollywood dance party and panels for filmmakers and producers: a Canadian-Asian Co-Production Summit and Negotiating Legal Documents and Financial Management in Filmmaking.

http://www.amerasiafestival.com/


About the Festival

AmérAsia Film Festival welcomes everyone to discover the artistic growth of the Asian diaspora and the groups of media artists in film and video. It is not only a new platform for networking and for discovering Asian-Canadian independent film/video and Asian inspired media art works; it is also open to encourage the unique Montreal art scene, where French and English are immersed in a creatively experimental hub in North America. AmérAsia focuses on two components: film screenings and special events.

FILM INDEX
AmérAsia is presenting 20+ films from 10 countries around the world namely, Korea, Canada, United States, China, Germany, France, Brazil, India, Japan and the Philippines.
Download the Program Guide (PDF~14MB)

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