Boston Asian American Film Festival

09/10/2024

Congratulations to Sandra Oh!!! Long overdue!!!

Sandra Oh Just Won Her First Emmy For Quiz Lady

09/07/2024

09/06/2024

BAAFF Preview Party 9/19! Golf for BAAFF & Chuang Stage Gala - https://mailchi.mp/aarw/baaff-13373031

09/06/2024

Dìdi (弟弟) is now available to watch at home as well as in theaters!! And pre-order the Blu-Ray with special features, coming out on October 29th!

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy (Izaac Wang) learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

09/06/2024

📣 Take action to bring back the Bright Lights Cinema Series at Emerson!

The Bright Light Cinema Series was cancelled. Please take a minute to let Emerson College know why it's important that they bring it back.

09/06/2024

⛳ 2024 BAAFF GOLF GETAWAY
📆 September 30
📍 Lake Winnipesaukee Golf Club (New Durham, NH)
📩 Register: https://buff.ly/3TjJ2hs

🎥 All proceeds support BAAFF’s mission to celebrate & explore Asian American experiences & storytelling through film & video.

Previous Next 2024 BAAFF GOLF GETAWAY Support BAAFF’s 16th Anniversary Monday, September 30, 2024 LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE GOLF CLUBNew Durham, New Hampshire All proceeds support BAAFF’s mission to celebrate and explore Asian American experiences and storytelling through film and video. We hope you wi...

09/05/2024

“This is a very special day for us,” [Mike] Shinoda said as he led introductions, mentioning that guitarist Alex Feder was filling in Delson for the night. “In the role of Chester Bennington this afternoon is each of you,” Shinoda addressed the crowd.

The new Linkin Park also announced a new album, “From Zero.” It releases Nov. 15.

Linkin Park is back with a new lineup and debuting their first new music since the 2017 death of lead singer Chester Bennington.

09/05/2024

🎉 Save the date for BAAFF's 2024 Preview Party!!
📆 September 19th
🕐 6 - 7:30pm
📍 Pao Arts Center
📩 RSVP: https://buff.ly/4e8ubP1

Let's get the celebration started for the 16th Annual Boston Asian American Film Festival coming Oct. 17-27!! 🙌

Don’t miss this great opportunity to get the inside scoop on this year’s lineup. 🎬

Join us for trailers, food, and insights into this year’s festival! 🍿 🎞️

Plus a chance to win screening tickets and more!! 🎟️

08/20/2024

NOW CASTING: Japanese Women 40s - 50s With Acting Experience! 🎥 🇯🇵

Please submit the following to [email protected]
⭐️ Your name
⭐️ Headshot/resumé or photo/bio
⭐️ Contact info (cell phone + email)
⭐️ Where you are based
SUBJECT: JAPANESE WOMEN // [YOUR NAME]

08/20/2024

MASSCreative is accepting applications for the 2024-2024 Advocacy & Organizing Fellowship cohort beginning Wednesday, August 21, 2024. The deadline to apply is Monday, September 23, 2024, at 11:59 PM.

ADVOCACY & ORGANIZING fellowSHIP The Advocacy & Organizing Fellowship is a year-long stipended leadership development cohort for artivists, creative workers, and emerging cultural leaders to sharpen their community organizing capacity and grow their advocacy skills for a more equitable and inclusive...

08/20/2024

🎬 Join Asian Community Development Corporation at the 18th Annual 3-day Kung Fu Film Festival! 📽
📍Where: The Chinatown Gate in Boston along the John F. Fitzgerald Surface Road
📅 When: Friday, August 23rd - Sunday, August 25th from 5:30 - 9:30 PM

Line-up and schedule at

Films at the Gate, an event organized and run by ACDC youth, revives the tradition of the Chinatown movie house. The festival enlivens Chinatown, bringing together people of all backgrounds and ages, while also introducing kung fu films to a new generation and restoring a tradition of shared, public...

08/15/2024

FREE CHOL SOO LEE, the opening night film from CAAMFest40, for received 3 Emmy nominations, including Best Documentary and Outstanding Historical Documentary!

Congratulations to Julie Ha and Eugene Yi, directors of this CAAM-funded documentary that tells the powerful story of a man whose case galvanized an Asian American movement.

08/10/2024

If you missed the Boston premiere of Dìdi (弟弟) , we are giving away free tickets to the 4pm showing of Oscar nominated director Sean Wang's directorial debut, at AMC Theatres Boston Common. Tickets are first come first serve you can get them from Grace at the AMC Boston common lobby. Tell her BAAFF sent you.

08/04/2024

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With his new movie “Dìdi (弟弟),” director Sean Wang brings Asian-American sensibilities to a universal coming-of-age story set in the Myspace era.

07/25/2024

Join , nominated director Sean Wang (Nai Nai and Waipo) and Festival director Susan Chinsen and Co-manager of Programming Nate Shu from Boston Asian American Film Festival for the New England premiere of Sean Wang's feature film debut, 2024 Sundance Film Festival award winner, DIDI!

Thursday, August 1st 7pm and 7:45pm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA.

Order your tickets for the special screening here:

https://coolidge.org/events/didi-filmmaker-sean-wang

Followed by Q&A's with the director Sean Wang.

07/25/2024

Join Coolidge Corner Theatre, nominated director Sean Wang (Nai Nai and Waipo) and Susan Chinsen and Nate Shu from Boston Asian American Film Festival for the New England premiere of Sean Wang's feature film debut, 2024 Sundance Film Festival award winner, DIDI!

Thursday, August 1st 7pm and 7:45pm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA.

Order your tickets for the special screening here:

https://coolidge.org/events/didi-filmmaker-sean-wang

Followed by Q&A's with the director Sean Wang.

07/18/2024

Support BAAFF’s 16th Anniversary
Monday, September 30, 2024

LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE GOLF CLUB
New Durham, New Hampshire

All proceeds support BAAFF’s mission to celebrate and explore Asian American experiences and storytelling through film and video.

We hope you will join us on September 30th at the private, member-exclusive Lake Winnipesaukee Golf Club. Surrounded by stunning foliage and right on the lake, this picturesque scenery will make for a wonderful day of golfing, fun, and prizes.

This event is in support of Boston Asian American Film Festival’s productions, community engagement, and film partnerships. This year BAAFF celebrates its 16th anniversary of empowering Asian Americans through film by showcasing Asian American experiences and serving as a resource to filmmakers and the Greater Boston Community.

For questions, please contact Ellen Kaye at [email protected]

07/18/2024

BAAFF Special Offers for DIDI with SEAN WANG & Golf Tournament Early Bird - https://mailchi.mp/aarw/baaff-13373023

07/17/2024

"So even if she doesn’t win, her 2024 Emmys nomination for best reality TV host, deserves some ink, she said. “100 percent. Even just the (Emmy) nomination as a first time host of Top Chef, my first nomination and the first in my entire life and my entire career, I will mark it regardless if I win or not. Because already this is one of those life moments for me. That is 1000 percent worth remembering forever,” an excited Kish told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday."

“I will mark it regardless if I win or not,” the Korean-born American chef said after earning a nom for best reality TV host after her debut season.

07/17/2024

"Led by the pure domination of “Shōgun” with 25 total nominations, the most of any series this year, FX’s Japanese historical drama tied the record set by Netflix’s “Squid Game” in 2022 with five acting nods for its Asian cast. (The original “Shōgun” limited series on NBC earned three acting nominations in 1981.) Hiroyuki Sanada became the second Asian actor after “Squid Game’s” Lee Jung-jae to land a drama actor nomination. Anna Sawai also earned her first nomination for lead drama actress, following in the footsteps of Sandra Oh, who scored three straight nominations from 2018 through 2020.

Japanese actors Tadanobu Asano and Takehiro Hira slipped in with supporting drama actor honors. They’re the first actors of Asian descent to be recognized in this category after Max Minghella in 2021 for “Handmaid’s Tale.”

“Shōgun” is only the second non-English series to be honored with a drama series nomination following “Squid Game.” “3 Body Problem,” co-created by Alexander Woo, also earned a nom in the category.

Other notable nominations for actors of Asian descent, some of them first-timers, include: “Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s” Maya Erskine for lead drama actress, competing opposite Sawai; “The Morning Show’s” Greta Lee for supporting drama actress; and “Saturday Night Live’s” Bowen Yang for supporting comedy actor. “Quiz Lady,” Hulu’s TV movie starring and produced by Awkwafina and Sandra Oh, was also nominated."

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, several "Shōgun" cast members and Sofía Vergara were among the nominees for the 76th Emmy Awards

07/17/2024

Sh**un is nominated for 25 nominations, including Best Drama Series, Actor, Actress and Supporting Actor in Drama Series and more! Also nominated: Quiz Lady for Best TV Movie, Maya Erskine for Best Actress in a Drama Series, Greta Lee for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Bowen Yang for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and more to come!

'Sh**un' leads the nominations, which were unveiled Wednesday morning. Other top nominees include 'The Bear,' 'Only Murders in the Building,' 'True Detective: Night Country' and 'The Crown.'

07/12/2024

Tomorrow from 4-9:30pm: Boston Little Saigon Cultural District invites the community to join the 2024 Chợ Đêm, Boston Little Saigon Night Market in Fields Corner, Dorchester!

Boston Little Saigon Cultural District invites the community to join the 2024 Chợ Đêm, Boston Little Saigon Night Market in Fields Corner, Dorchester. 

07/11/2024

PBS will be streaming BAAFF 2017 official selection Finding Kukan for 2 weeks! Watch now at

Finding Kukan

07/11/2024

All ten episodes of the Hulu miniseries will drop on Hulu on November 19!

Jimmy O. Yang and Chloe Bennet are investigating a mystery in the first images from Interior Chinatown, a new metafictional miniseries from Hulu.

07/11/2024

BAAFF 2023 official selection AIKANE will be screening online as part of Film Independent July 15-17, followed by a pre-recorded conversation with director Dean Hamer, and moderated by Anderson Le (Artistic Director, Hawaii International Film Festival)! Register at:

Festival Visions, now in its second year, is a series that shines a light on films discovered this year in regional film festivals across the US. We’re

07/11/2024

Caring Across Generations is is partnering with BAAFF alum Liz Sargent to adapt her short Take Me Home (BAAFF 2023 official selection) into a feature film! Watch this special interview from Caring Across Generations with Liz and her sister and actress Anna and please share widely during Disability Pride Month!!