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SFILMMAKER - THE ALL ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL ONLINE AWARD CEREMONY

THE ALL ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (AAIFF)
ONLINE AWARD CEREMONY 

 

The All Asian Independent Film Festival (AAIFF), has been launched to support independent filmmakers throughout Asia to display their unique ideas, to tell the stories deep down inside their hearts, and to inspire both audiences and other independent filmmakers.

As the sister film festival of ECU - the European Independent Film Festival, which has been held in Paris for 14 years, the AAIFF has the ability to harness the rock-solid reputation of ECU as being one of the World's foremost independent film festivals and to help bring global attention to Asia's independent filmmakers.

The festival's objective is to offer excellent opportunities for all the Asian independent filmmakers to find audiences for their films, to connect with peers, distributors and talent scouts - and importantly to provide them unforgettable film experience.








AAIFF held its first edition, online, from 18th to 22nd November, 2020. It was a very successful event with great organisation by the festival team. Sfilmmaker is also proud to announce that five (5) Chinese films scooped awards at the festival. These include "Weave A Period Time" , "Lisa" , "Kite" , "A Psalm of Life" and "All This Surveillance". They were awarded "Best Asian Independent Feature Film" , "Best Asian Independent Short Film" , "Best Asian Independent Animated Film" , "Best Asian Independent Music Video" and "Best Asian Independent Experimental Film" respectively. 
All winners at the AAIFF include :

1. Best Asian Independent Film 2020 : "A TRIP WITH MOM" 
Directed by Sophie Shui
Country : Taiwan

2. Best Asian Independent Feature Film : "WEAVE A PERIOD TIME"
Directed by : Tao Han
Country : China

3. Best Asian Independent Short Film : "LISA" 
Directed by : Zhang Shufan
Country    : China

4. Best Asian Independent Documentary Film : "HERE STILL"
Directed by : Tara Dorabji
Counry : U.S.A

5. Best Asian Independent Student Film : "WHEN FALL COMES"
Directed by : Yiwei Pu
Country : U.S.A

6. Best Asian Independent Animated Film : "KITE" 
Directed by : HongWei Wang
Country : China

7. Best Asian Independent Music Video : "A PSALM OF LIFE" 
Directed by : Indiego 
Country : China

8. Best Asian Independent Experimental Film : "ALL THIS SURVEILLANCE"
Directed by : Adel Jervis
Country : China

9. Best Special Jury Mention : "IN THIS LAND WE'RE BRIEFLY GHOSTS"
Directed by : Chen-Wen Lo
Country : Myanmar

A big congratulations to all the winners at the All Asian Independent Film Festival (AAIFF) 2020!!



MOVIE IN FOCUS
          
Director    : Zhang Shufan
Producer   : Wang Rui
Starring    : Yu Hao, Cui Nan

Synopsis : 

In China, there lives more than 21 million gay men, and most of them choose to conceal their sex orientation because of social pressure. About 65% of them choose to marry 'straight' women, and bear at least one child to 'carry his family name'. Most of those 'gays' wives' don't know they were lied to in the beginning, and therefore live a miserable marriage life, because divorce is also a tough choice for a woman in China, especially if she has a child.

Our heroine, Lisa, is one of those 'gays' wives', who is facing a rough situation now. In order to win the custody of her 7-year-old son Tong in court, Lisa decided to gather evidence of her husband's infidelity with another man. Though she tried everything she could to keep her son from this family crisis, Lisa found the surprising fact that Tong knew everything.


Director    : Zhang Shufan
Producer   : Wang Rui
Starring    : Yu Hao, Cui Nan

Synopsis : 
When we are young, we are easily trapped in the anxiety of nothingness. Adults gradually have the autonomy, but standing on the edge of youth and we feel confused. If we can stand at the end of all this will be different, but time really has an end?

How would you feel？At 22, it's just begun. People in this era are desperately searching for meaning, hoping that you, who are tired of the meaning itself, can abandon all the pressure of meaning and indulge yourself in this short film.


Congratulations  to the above award-winning films from various countries and the production teams. We look forward to the end of the current global pandemic, and see filmmakers and film fsetivals have more in-person events and productions taking place in a normal setting once again. Sfilmmaker aims to to continue being an integrated service platform for both film festivals and filmmakers which supports and supplements their goals in the film industry. 



Film Festivals which will close soon on the platform :
Mumbai International Short Film Festival, India (ends November 24)
New Vision International Film Festival in the Netherlands (end of November 25)
Rome Film Awards (Deadline on November 27)
ARFF Barcelona  (Deadline on December 3)


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