Boston Asian American Film Festival
2015 Audience Choice Awards

Crush The Skull
Best Narrative Feature

​2015 | USA | 83 min | Comedy/Horror
Directed by Viet Nguyen

A highly dysfunctional team of thieves find themselves trapped within a house they intended to rob, only to discover they've wandered into the lair of a deranged serial killer.

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My Life in China
Best Documentary Feature

2014 | USA | 88 min
Directed by Kenneth Eng

"My Life in China" is a personal film that takes viewers on a journey to rural China where an emotional revelation takes place. Every family has a special story. In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Everyone, at some point, has had somebody in their family leave their native country behind to search for a better life.

How did they hold onto their identity? How did they adapt to their new life? In my case, it’s my Chinese-American story.

Special Encore Screening: Saturday 11/21
7:30pm Modern Theatre, Boston MA (Details here)

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East of Hollywood
Best Narrative Short

2015 | USA | 28 min | Mockumentary
Directed by Chris Caccioppoli

This short-form mockumentary exposes the stereotypes Asian American actors are forced to deal with throughout the audition process and features a talented, multicultural cast from the greater Boston area. Developed by Boston native, Michael Tow and writer/director Chris Caccioppoli, this film draws from real experiences encountered by Tow and fellow Asian American actors throughout their careers.

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Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides
Best Documentary Short

2015 | USA | 26 min
Directed by Lucy Craft, Kathryn Tolbert and Karen Kasmauski

Despite lingering wartime enmity, tens of thousands of Japanese wives -- the biggest influx of Asian women in U.S. history -- crossed the Pacific. They began new lives in difficult and to them mysterious circumstances, scattered across the country in places where they were often the first Japanese ever seen. What was it like to abandon family, friends and country, and marry a former enemy? Even for those whose choice of spouse proved to be a tragic mistake, there was no turning back. Many in Japan viewed them as social outcasts and even today the words "war bride" in Japanese carry such a stigma -- of bar girls, even prostitution --  that people don't like to say them. Now these women are in their 80s. This is their story, of lives shaped by one irrevocable decision.

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