Boston Asian American Film Festival

12/22/2024

‘The Glassworker’ Official Merchandise Collection, now available for delivery worldwide!

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12/22/2024

Save the date for Shared Stories and Projecting Connections in 2025, co-presented by BAAFF, Roxbury International Film Festival and CineFest Latino Boston at ArtsEmerson! https://buff.ly/3IkYNyP

12/18/2024

Great interview with BAAFF alum, Syuen Chia (2024 official selection, "When I Die") on her new film, "Minifig"!

Based in Los Angeles, Syuen (pronounced Sh-wen) is Malaysian Producer and Writer/Director, who is drawn to the unique complexities in the

12/17/2024

“Lee will be the 37th director to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, regarded as the DGA’s highest honor. The last recipient was Spike Lee in 2022.”

Lee was also BAAFF’s special guest in 2013 for our screening of The Wedding Banquet!

The DGA is set to bestow Oscar-winning director Ang Lee with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work at the upcoming DGA Awards in February.

12/13/2024

12/12/2024

Congratulations to on his nomination for Best Young Actor in Dìdi (弟弟)!!

12/11/2024

Great news!!

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Abramorama Acquires Oscar Qualifying Documentary Nurse Unseen.

Abramorama has acquired the global theatrical distribution and Direct-To-Audience rights to ‘Nurse Unseen’, Michele Josue’s Oscar-qualified documentary feature.

‘Nurse Unseen’ has been a huge labor of love for our community and specifically our heroic nurses,” said Josue. “We are thrilled to now partner with Abramorama to bring this vital and important film to more audiences around the world.”

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Thanks to everyone at for this amazing partnership! ❤️🙏🏽 Let’s GO!!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 Please share this great news!!

12/10/2024

BAAFF 2024 Audience Award Winner Kowloon Documentary is a Vimeo Staff Pick! Watch it now for free at https://buff.ly/4gsYDEM! Kowloon Restaurant

SAUGUS — Since 1950, Kowloon, formerly the Mandarin House, has been on Route 1 in Saugus. In 1958, it received its iconic name based on the peninsula in Hong Kong. Now, with plans to downsize, the restaurant has produced an award-winning documentary, titled “Kowloon!” The short documentary, ma...

12/10/2024

Posted • .boston NOT ONE MORE! 🚨
Action to Defend Our Communities from Deportation and Criminalization!

Join AARW and our allies

🌟 REGISTER + ENDORSE: bit.ly/dec13rally 🌟
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Please sign up you or your organization if you can attend! Volunteers needed for several roles. We also have a mobilization night to prepare on December 5.

When: Friday, December 13 at 3:30pm
Where: Rally at JFK Federal Building, 15 Sudbury Street, Boston – next to Government Plaza and Bowdoin T stations

Why: We are coming together for an important action to unify our movement, mobilize our communities, and demand protection for refugees and immigrants at all levels of government. We need you there!

In the wake of Trump’s election, we’re facing a critical moment where deportation and criminalization policies will ramp up, putting our community at risk. Though we need to prepare for Trump’s term, there is so much that current political leaders can be doing. This is our moment to push for policies that go beyond fear and punishment and offer real, tangible support for immigrants and refugees. This action is a direct call to MA Governor Healey and President Biden before January – we need their action NOW!

12/09/2024

12/06/2024

Today is Margaret Cho’s 56th birthday. Born in San Francisco to Korean parents and raised in a racially diverse neighborhood of Ocean Beach, her parents ran a bookstore called Paperback Traffic. During high school, Cho auditioned and was accepted into the San Francisco School of the Arts and became involved with the school’s improvisational comedy group. The group also included Sam Rockwell and Aisha Tyler. After high school, she attended San Francisco State University but never ended up graduating.

In 1994, Cho got her big breakthrough when ABC developed and aired a sitcom based on her stand-up routine called All-American Girl (Amazon Prime Video). Before that time, she spent years honing her material and appeared on acts with Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Hope, and was a frequent guest on the Arsenio Hall Show. Unfortunately, the show lasted only one season which led very challenging personal issues. In 1999, Cho opened up about her personal issues in a one-woman show called I’m the One That I Want and wrote an autobiography based on the show.

In 2011, she portrayed North Korean dictator Kim-Jong Il in an episode of 30 Rock (Peacock) where she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. She later returned to portray Kim’s son Kim-Jong Un. Some movies that Cho has been in are Face/Off (Pluto TV), The Rugrats Movie (Netflix), Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (Amazon Prime Video), Over the Moon (Netflix), Friendsgiving (Netflix), S*x Appeal (Hulu), Fire Island (Hulu), and The Listener. On television, she played Teri Less in the series Drop Dead Diva (Hulu) and was the co-host of Fashion Police. More recently, she was in episodes of Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. (Disney+), Awkwafina is Nora from Queens (Comedy Central), and The Flight Attendant (Max) . What happens to be your favorite Margaret Cho role over the years?

11/30/2024