2006 CUNY Asian American Film / Media Festival – Program

Date: Friday, May 19, 2006 | Time: 6PM to 8PM

Place: CUNY Graduate Center – Martin E. Segal Theatre
365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (Corner of 34th Street)


6:00PM                  Greetings – Adrienne Klein; Co-Director, Science & Arts, CUNY
Graduate Center

6:15PM                  Award Ceremony – Vinit Parmar; Assistant Professor, Film,
Brooklyn College, CUNY

6:30PM                  Film Screening

Experimental
Winner                   Alan Raquel (City College of New York)

The Photograph – A photographer experiences the reality of the blurred illusion in one of his photographs.

Fiction
Runner-Up            Masood Haque (City College of New York)

The Calling – Tragedy about the senselessness of violence.  The younger brother of a suicide bomber is accidentally and fatally drawn into becoming a perpetrator of the violence he cannot understand.

Winner                   Kaori Okano (Brooklyn College)

Dance Untitled – A foreign-born dancer must decide whether to continue pursuing her passion in the U.S.

Documentary
Winner                   Winnie Ng (Hunter College)

In Search of the Golden Eggroll – An exploration of the unspoken conflicts and histories within a family, though the metaphoric, “on the surface” discussions of Chinese food.

7:30PM                  Q&A Session

2006 Film / Media Festival

Festival Program

Biographies


Festival Chairman
Vinit Parmar

Panel of Judges
Daryl Chin
Amy Herzog
Yunah Hong
Herman Lew
Roopali Mukherjee
Vinit Pamar
Thomas Tam
Cindy Wong

Coordinator
Phillip Li

Technical Assistance
Maggie Fung
Luisa Wang
Antony Wong