Call For Entries: Viet Film Fest 2021

Submit your film to the 2021 Viet Film Fest.



Viet Film Fest
Hey filmmakers! Viet Film Fest, which celebrates Vietnamese stories and voices in cinema, is now accepting submissions for its 2021 film festival, to be held October 15-30, 2021 -- hosted virtually. Founded in 2003 by the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association, the festival "showcases the best creative work by and about Vietnamese people. Through the universal language of film, Viet Film Fest brings together multiple perspectives to expand the scope and horizons of Vietnamese cinema." The submission deadline is May 15 (early bird: April 30). For further information, go to vietfilmfest.com.

Submit your film to LAAPFF 2017

The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is now officially an Oscar-qualifying festival.



Hey filmmakers! Share your film with one of best fests around. This is your last-minute reminder that the final deadline is quickly approaching to submit your film to the 2017 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

Presented by Visual Communications, LAAPFF is the leading showcase for new Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema, providing a crucial launching point for the discovery and sustained support of Asian Pacific independent filmmakers and media artists from around the globe.

All films -- feature-length, shorts, narrative, documentary, animation, experimental -- need to be submitted and received through Withoutabox or Filmfreeway by Monday, January 2 at 5:00 PM PST.

Writer and artist needed for graphic novel project

The Wing Luke Museum seeks professional artist and writer for story of Japanese American resisters.



Calling all writers and artists! The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience is launching a graphic novel project, and they're looking for a professional artist and writer to help make it happen. The project, entitled Inspiring Future Generations: Challenging the Forced Incarceration through Acts of Resistance, shares the history and significance of the Japanese American Resisters story.

The Wing is working with community stakeholders to develop content for a graphic novel, stand-alone chapter and curriculum guide, which will be distributed to schools and libraries and through the museum. An animated short produced by the Seattle Channel will also be made based on the stand-alone chapter.

This project is the second in a series of graphic novels. The first book Fighting for America: Nisei Soldiers by Lawrence Matsuda and Matt Sasaki, told the story of six World War II Japanese American military veterans.

Required materials for the submission deadline must be received no later than 4:30pm on Tuesday, January 3, 2017. For further information about the project, including the submission process, selection criteria and scope of work, view the two requests for qualifications below.

HBO APA Visionaries Short Film Competition

The deadline to enter is November 7.



Attention, filmmakers! HBO invites you to submit your short film to the Asian Pacific American Visionaries Short Film Competition. HBO's first initiative of its kind, the contest seeks to identify new voices in APA cinema and provide emerging director an opportunity to showcase their work.

Here's Jimmy O. Yang of HBO's Silicon Valley with the call for submissions:

Call For Entries: AAIFF16

Asian CineVision presents the 39th Asian American International Film Festival, July 21-30.



Hey, filmmakers! Asian CineVision is putting out the call for entries for the 39th Asian American International Film Festival, happening July 21-30 in New York City. They're seeking narrative and documentary features, short films, youth films, music videos, works-in-progress and screenplay competition submissions.

Here are some more details:

Call For Entries: CAAMFest 2014

Submit your film by the extended deadline, October 7.



Hey, filmmakers! Got another opportunity for you... The Center for Asian American Media invites you to submit your work to CAAMFest 2014 (formerly the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival), which takes place March 13-23 in San Francisco and Berkeley. This is a chance to have your work presented at the largest festival in North America devoted to presenting the best in Asian American films, music and food. Here are a few more details:

Call For Entries: "Marvels & Monsters: Unbound" Short Works Showcase

Submit an original monologue or short performance piece for JANM's showcase on October 10.

Next month, the Japanese American National Museum presents the West Coast premiere of MARVELS & MONSTERS: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942-1986, a groundbreaking exhibition showcasing images of Asian characters in comics, drawn from the extensive collection of William F. Wu.

To commemorate the exhibition, JANM is putting out the call for original monologues or short performance works to be presented at the museum's "Marvels & Monsters: Unbound" Short Works Showcase on October 10. Submissions should rethink, subvert, deconstruct, or satirize the eight pop-culture archetypes depicted in the exhibition:

Call for Entries: 2014 Seattle Asian American Film Festival

Submit your film by September 15, 2013.

Attention filmmakers! You are invited to submit your film for consideration for the upcoming 2014 edition of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival, going down January 23-26 in Seattle's Chinatown-International District.

SAAFF features works by Northwest Asian American filmmakers, as well as films from across the country dealing with Asian American people, issues, and themes. They'll accept films of any length and genre that were completed in 2011 or later.

But the deadline for entries is coming up quick: September 15, 2013. So get going. For further information about festival, visit the SAAFF website. To get started on the submission process, go here.

Compete in the 2013 72 Hour Shootout!

Attention, filmmakers! Professional, amateur, and everything in between. Do you want to put your skills and passion to the test? Then register to compete in the Ninth Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout, presented by the Asian American Film Lab. It's going down June 1-3. Filmmaking glory awaits.

The Shootout is a worldwide competition in which filmmaking teams have 72 hours to write, shoot, edit, and complete a five-minute short film based on a prescribed theme. You could win cash, prizes and the chance to have your film screened at the Asian American International Film Festival in New York.

Here the blurb from AAFilmLab:

Apply for CAAM's 2013 Ready, Set Pitch!

Attention Asian American media producers and directors! The Center for Asian American Media invites you to submit applications for projects of all genres to participate in READY, SET, PITCH!, a live fundraising event at this year's CAAMFest (running May 14-24).

CAAM is seeking projects that are timely and compelling, incorporate a well thought-out audience engagement strategy, and explore topics that are of interest to a wide audience including the Asian American community. Each fundraising campaign should incorporate as central themes innovation, engagement and community.

I had the privilege of serving as a jury member at last year's Ready, Set Pitch!, and heard from four out of five media producers who were ultimately able to raise their full crowdfunding campaign amounts. This year, CAAM is adding an audience engagement element. Here's some more information:

last call: 2013 los angeles asian pacific film festival

This is for you filmmakers interested in getting your work in front of an audience at a damn fine film festival... Visual Communications is accepting entries for the 29th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, running May 2-12, 2013.

The early and final deadlines have passed, but you can still make the ultra final extended deadline (available only through Withoutabox) if you submit by January 2. For full entry guidelines and all other relevant details on how to submit your film, go to the LAAPFF website here.

call for entries: aaiff 2013

Attention filmmakers! Asian CineVision is currently accepting entries for the 36th annual Asian American International Film Festival, running July 24 through August 3, 2013 in New York City. Filmmakers are invited to submit narrative features, documentary features, short films, music videos, youth films and work-in-progress. Here are some more details: