2006 CUNY Asian American Film / Media Festival – Program

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