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Open Call For Films 2021
Now accepting submissions!
We are seeking narratives, dramas, comedies, shorts, documentaries, animations, music videos, and experimental films.

Deadlines:
Early - May 15, 2021
Regular - June 15, 2021
Final - July 15, 2021
The Paper Tigers 
​May 1, 2021 (VOD/24 hour viewing window)

Three childhood Kung Fu prodigies have grown into washed-up, middle-aged men – now one kick away from pulling their hamstrings. But when their master is murdered, they must juggle their dead-end jobs, dad duties, and overcome old grudges to avenge his death.​

​TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh4KU5Ep4ic
Q&A with filmmakers to follow screening:
Weiying Olivia Huang, Director of Meditations on the Power of Community
Emiko Omori, Director of Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May's Photo Studio
Rick Quan, Director of A Chinese American Giant: The Y.C. Hong Story
Moderator: Susan Chinsen, Creative Producer/Engagement, Founding Director/Boston Asian American Film Festival Emerson College Office of the Arts, ArtsEmerson
About Projecting Connections:
Chinese American Experiences
May 6-10, 2021
Pick Your Price - $5-$25

A Chinese American Giant: The Y.C. Hong Story
29 mins | Directed by: Rick Quan
He stood just four feet five and a half inches, but Y.C. Hong was a giant in the Chinese American community. As the first Chinese American immigration attorney in California and civil rights activist, Hong played an important role in fighting racist laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

​Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May's Photo Studio
28 mins | Directed by: Emiko Omori

Vanishing Chinatown: The World of The May's Photo Studio brings families together: in the past by splicing together family portraits in spite of family separations due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, and in the present by reconnecting May's granddaughter with her family's legacy. These stunning photographs show San Francisco Chinatown in the early to mid-20th century, a vanishing "old Chinatown" vibrant with culture; an immigrant community becoming Americanized.

Meditations on the Power of Community
15 mins | Directed by: Weiying Olivia HuangMeditations on the Power of Community is a short film, newly commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and featuring dance choreographed by Lenora Lee Dance and interviews with members of Boston’s Chinatown community. It is presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Pao Arts Center, and Lenora Lee Dance, and was developed in response to the Museum’s exhibition Shen Wei: Painting in Motion, currently on view.
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