The Austin Asian American Film Festival's Online Shorts Festival will take place June 11-17, 2020. The virtual festival will be held in lieu of the regularly planned 12th annual festival next month. AAAFF 2020—with in-person screenings and a slate of feature films—is currently postponed to late fall, pending health and safety updates. AAAFF shares filmmakers’ unique voices to create a forum where viewers can come together to experience this wide array of Asian American Pacific Islander perspectives.
The AAAFF 2020 Online Shorts Festival Lineup includes the following films:
Documentary
- ANG MERON SA WALA (BEYOND NOTHING) (Philippines, dirs. Arby and Tin)
- BETWEEN THE NOTES (U.S./Taiwan, dir. Jordan Hwang)
- CHUNYUN (China, dir. Jonathan Bregel)
- FARMING SLOWLY (U.S., dir. Anthony Newen)
- GAY AS IN HAPPY: A QUEER ANTI-TRAGEDY (Canada, dir. Jordana Valerie Allen-Shim)
- SOMA (U.S., dir. Peter Trinh)
- TRANSPLANT (China/U.S., dir. Zheyu Liang)
- UNSPOKEN (U.S., dir. Patrick G. Lee)
- VANISHING CHINATOWN: THE WORLD OF THE MAY’S PHOTO STUDIO (U.S., dir. Emiko Omori)
- YAI NIN (U.S./Thailand, dir. Champ Ensminger)
Narrative
- AIDA (IN BETWEEN) (U.S., dir. Christopher W. Graham)
- AWAKEN (U.S., dir. Leena Pendharkar
- BITTER MELONS (U.S., dir. Thavary Krouch)
- BODHI (Singapore, dir. Png Zhen Yu)
- FAMILY STORY (Indonesia, dir. Rendro Aryo)
- FOR MY MONOLIDDED GIRLS (U.S., dir. Anna Tran)
- HALWA (U.S., dirs. Gayatri Bajpai and Nirav Bhakta)
- I KILLED A PERSON (Iran, dir. Nima Aghakhani)
- LOTUS (U.S., dir. Beibei Xu)
- MAGIC KINGDOM (U.S., dir. Nelson Ng Chak Hei)
- MALAKOUT (Iran, dir. Farnoosh Abedi)
- MIRROR (U.S., dir. Christina Yoon)
- MOONWALK WITH ME (U.S., dir. So Young Shelly Yo)
- OUR HOME HERE (U.S., dir. Angela Chen)
- OVER THE HILL (U.S., dir. Jason Chao)
- PASSAGE (India, dir. Askari Kumar)
- PIECES & BITS (U.S., dir. Bo Nawacharee)
- PUSSY TALK (U.S., dir. Kim Tran)
- SERIOUS LEES (Canada, dir. Krista Jang)
- STILL TRYING (U.S., dir. Nicole N. Nequinto)
- TAIWANESE CHA CHA CHA (Taiwan, dir. Judie Yang)
- THE HEAVY BURDEN (Turkey, dir. Yilmaz Özdil)
- THE MASK FROM HOME (U.S., dir. Jordan Hwang)
- THINGS WE CARRY (South Korea, dir. Bo Yoon Ha)
- WHEN SUMMER COMES (U.S., dir. Jiwon Uhm)
- WORTH (Canada/Pakistan, dir. Meelad Moaphi)
Virtual Events
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“Have You Eaten Yet?” the AAAFF Game Show (Co-hosted by Taiwanese American Professionals (TAP) – Austin Chapter) - Friday, June 12th, from 7:30-9:00pm CT live-streaming on the AAAFF Facebook page
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Homeschool with G-Su (Presented by Y’all We Asian) - Saturday, June 13th, from 8:05-8:50pm CT on the ColdTowne Theater Twitch Stream
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Online Shorts Festival Closing Party (Presented by GivePulse) - Wednesday, June 17th, from 7:00-10:00pm CT - Time and platform TBD
Tickets
Admittance is available with purchase of the full series ($11.99; virtual access to all shorts for the duration of the online festival) or tickets to individual programming “blocks” ($2.99 each; virtual access to the shorts in the “block” for the duration of the online festival).
Series passes are on sale now at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/aaaff, while individual short film blocks will be available for purchase June 11-17.