8th Annual Albuquerque Chinese-American Film Festival (ACAFF)
Saturday, October 19th
South Broadway Cultural Center
1025 Broadway Blvd SE
Free Admission (suggested donation of $10)
8 a.m. - Empowering a Community: The Story of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance
9:15 a.m. - Short films from UNM Asian American Students: Pipe Dream and Limn
9:40 a.m. - Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story
11:15 a.m. - Being Different in The Delta
12:30 p.m. - Sight
2:30 p.m. - Panel discussion with filmmakers
3:30 p.m. - Local performances and demonstrations
3:55 p.m. - Little Explorers
4:05 p.m. - The Tiger's Apprentice
Filmmaker Meet & Greet at the Southwest Film Center
ASUNM Southwest Film Center and the Albuquerque Chinese-American Film Festival (ACAFF) invite you to meet the award-winning filmmakers, directors, editors and producers whose documentaries about activists, artists, and social justice will be screened at the festival.
Friday, October 18th at 5-7 p.m.
Southwest Film Center, UNM SUB
1025 Broadway Blvd SE
Free Admission
Kenneth Eng, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, is director, editor and producer of Empowering a Community: The Story of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. Eng received a Guggenheim Fellowship for “My Life In China” which premiered nationally on the public TV series, America Reframed on WORLD Channel. He edited “Tested” and "Dear Corky" for director Curtis Chin, and is completing his film, “A Chasm in Chinatown,” a portrait of a divided community.
Marc’Anthony Liu is an Asian American K-pop Recording Artist, actor, and founder of the Asian American Production Entertainment Company AbnorMAL Verse ENT, which involves Telecom Services, Film/Television, Music, Video Games, Festivals and Live Concerts. Liu has created a distribution Netflix streaming service as well as Malventures: Little Explorers, a streaming series that teaches about Asian cultures and languages.
Photographic Justice; The Corky Lee Story, documents how Lee used his camera to highlight social injustice. Several of the creative talents behind the film will be appearing, including:
Jennifer Takaki, director and producer and 2023 Better Angels Lavine
Fellowship, 2024 Bruce Lee Trailblazer Award;
Linda Lew Woo, producer and community activist;
Linda Hattendorf, editor (and award-winning director and editor of The Cats of Mirikitani, recipient of the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award)
Adam Yamaguchi, correspondent, CBS News, and former executive producer and correspondent for CBS News documentary series. He has reported on climate change and conflict zones worldwide, Native Hawaiian dispossession, food deserts nationally and in the Navajo Nation, and anti-Asian hate. Yamaguchi is an Emmy, Peabody, and Webby award recipient. His film, Being Different in the Delta, documents how a new generation confronts anti-Asian racism in the Mississippi Delta.