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Asian-American/Asian Research Institute

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Asian-American Community."

2004 CUNY Asian American
Film / Media Festival

Date: Friday, May 14, 2004
Time: 6:00PM to 8:00PM

Place: CUNY Graduate Center
Martin Segal Theatre
365 5th Avenue, Manhattan
(Corner of 34th Street)

Festival Objective: To promote the talents of CUNY students and to provide a central location to display their work. The festival will encourage networking among students that are separated by the different CUNY campuses. One of the missions of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute is to become an intellectual and cultural center for New York's diverse Asian American community.

Photo: 2004 Festival

Prize Awards:
First Prize ($200), Runner-Up ($100)
*For Each Personal & Documentary Film Category

First Prize $100, Runner-Up (2 Movie Tix + Popcorn)
*For Open Competition Film Category

All film or media submissions will be reviewed by our distinguished panel of judges, who will render a decision as to who will take home the top prizes for each category on the night of the festival.

List of Winning Films

Personal Film

First Prize - The Penny (Running Time: 11 Min.)
Mutsumi Onuma, Media Arts & Communication, City College, CUNY
Runner-Up Prize - The Theory of Pleasurable Constipation (Running Time: 15 Min.)
Min Kuen Choi, MFA, TV Production, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Documentary Film

First Prize - Manthan: The Churning (Running Time: 27 Min.)
Shalini Kantayya, Media Arts Production, City College, CUNY
Runner-Up - Kaduma (Running Time: 21 Min.)
Alan Raquel, Film, City College, CUNY

Open Competition Film

First Prize - No Light, Big City (Running Time: 6 Min.)
Rioma Kam, Winsie Tow & Juliet Cullen, Immigrant Social Services, Inc.

Runner-Up - Learning Chinese: The Story of Ting He (Running Time: 8 Min)
Yan Lin, Seward Park High School

Festival Chairperson: Herman Lew

Festival Coordinator: Nga Trang

Contact Info:

Tel: 212-869-0182
Fax: 212-869-0181
E-Mail: events@aaari.info