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July 14, 2006
NY Asian and Latino Film Festivals Hand Out Love, Money
The organizers of the New York Asian Film Festival sent word of the 2006 event's Audience Award winner: Always: Sunset on Third Street, the big-budget period drama that opened the festival and whose director, Takashi Yamazaki (right), introduced its premiere at the Japan Society. The Korean War epic Welcome to Dongmakol finished in close second place, with the unclassifiable mindfuck Funky Forest: The First Contact claimed the third spot. Kudos to the winners and thanks to all who played.
More congratulations go to filmmaker Hugo Perez, whose script Betty La Flaca, about a young Latina struggling with her body image, claimed the top spot in the New York Latino Film Festival's Short Film Competition. For his efforts, Perez receives a $15,000 grant from festival sponsor HBO for the thankless task of shooting his script in time for this year's festival--which begins July 25. Hell, if we're going for quality-inhibiting gimmicks, why not just make a whole feature in 11 days? After all, I hear HBO needs the content.
Posted by stvanairsdale at July 14, 2006 09:35 AM
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