This year’s Asian World Film Festival will again showcase the very best of Asian cinema, all in an effort to draw greater recognition to the region’s wealth of filmmakers and talent while strengthening ties between the film industries of Hollywood and the continent.
During the pandemic, the 2020 edition was delayed to spring 2021. The festival will highlight pictures from more than 50 countries across Asia. It is unique in that it predominantly screens works that have been submitted to the Oscars and Golden Globes for international feature film and motion picture — non-English language, respectively.
“We started Awff in 2018, and we’re very proud of what we’ve achieved,” says executive and program director Georges Chamchoum, who co-founded the event with Sadyk Sher Niyaz, the former minister of culture of Kyrgyzstan, and Asel Sherniyazova and Brett Syson. “It’s a real passion for me, and our goal is to put a...
During the pandemic, the 2020 edition was delayed to spring 2021. The festival will highlight pictures from more than 50 countries across Asia. It is unique in that it predominantly screens works that have been submitted to the Oscars and Golden Globes for international feature film and motion picture — non-English language, respectively.
“We started Awff in 2018, and we’re very proud of what we’ve achieved,” says executive and program director Georges Chamchoum, who co-founded the event with Sadyk Sher Niyaz, the former minister of culture of Kyrgyzstan, and Asel Sherniyazova and Brett Syson. “It’s a real passion for me, and our goal is to put a...
- 11/9/2022
- by Nick Clement
- Variety Film + TV
Oliver Stone's five-year, seven-movie run of "Salvador," "Platoon," "Wall Street," "Talk Radio," "Born on the Fourth of July," "The Doors" and "JFK" remains unprecedented in the realm of studio filmmaking. The sheer polifiicity, regardless of budget, is impressive in its own right, but to work so efficiently at such a high artistic level on an often massive scale is staggering. During this span, Stone won three Oscars, and earned mostly raves from critics -- though, beginning with "Wall Street," he began to get dinged for his heavy-handedness (Charlie Sheen's spoken "Who Am I?" from the balcony of his Upper East Side penthouse suite was an ill omen of thundering obviousness to come).
Stone finally stumbled with "Heaven and Earth," a well-intentioned, yet maddeningly unfocused adaptation of Le Ly Hayslip's memoir of growing up in wartorn Vietnam. The film bombed, and reportedly left Stone exhausted. After spending the...
Stone finally stumbled with "Heaven and Earth," a well-intentioned, yet maddeningly unfocused adaptation of Le Ly Hayslip's memoir of growing up in wartorn Vietnam. The film bombed, and reportedly left Stone exhausted. After spending the...
- 10/10/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Kenny Nguyen of ThreeSixtyEight has signed up to Executive Produce drama film Scent Of The Delta. The film is a 2020 Sundance Film Institute script semifinalist, written by Thuc Doan Nguyen and directed by Adele Pham (Nailed It). The film addresses Vietnamese culture and growing up in the American South in the 1980s.
Shooting begins in Louisiana in 2023, shooting on film and will be the first English-language drama feature to center Vietnamese American women in three decades (since Oliver Stone’s 1993 war drama Heaven and Earth). Scent of the Delta stars actress Tiffany Pham in the leading role.
The story creation is a team effort on behalf of Nguyen, Adele and Tiffany Pham and follows Carrie (Caroline) Tao Wargo, an American-born child of daughter of an interracial couple. Through the eyes of a woman who is caught between cultures, we come to see New Orleans, a land of rebirth on the brink of renewal and reinvention.
Shooting begins in Louisiana in 2023, shooting on film and will be the first English-language drama feature to center Vietnamese American women in three decades (since Oliver Stone’s 1993 war drama Heaven and Earth). Scent of the Delta stars actress Tiffany Pham in the leading role.
The story creation is a team effort on behalf of Nguyen, Adele and Tiffany Pham and follows Carrie (Caroline) Tao Wargo, an American-born child of daughter of an interracial couple. Through the eyes of a woman who is caught between cultures, we come to see New Orleans, a land of rebirth on the brink of renewal and reinvention.
- 5/5/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Refugee from Vietnam who starred in Oliver Stone’s film Heaven and Earth
Hiep Thi Le, who has died aged 46 from stomach cancer, became a film star after travelling to the Us from Vietnam as a child in the late 1970s, one of hundreds of thousands of refugees known as “boat people”. In her early 20s she landed the lead role in Oliver Stone’s 1993 drama Heaven and Earth despite never having acted before.
Based on the memoirs of Le Ly Hayslip, who, like Le, had arrived in America from Da Nang, the movie was the last and least successful part of the director’s Vietnam trilogy, following Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). It was also one of the few films of his to feature a female protagonist. Le was required to age more than 30 years in the course of the movie as Hayslip, who is raped...
Hiep Thi Le, who has died aged 46 from stomach cancer, became a film star after travelling to the Us from Vietnam as a child in the late 1970s, one of hundreds of thousands of refugees known as “boat people”. In her early 20s she landed the lead role in Oliver Stone’s 1993 drama Heaven and Earth despite never having acted before.
Based on the memoirs of Le Ly Hayslip, who, like Le, had arrived in America from Da Nang, the movie was the last and least successful part of the director’s Vietnam trilogy, following Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). It was also one of the few films of his to feature a female protagonist. Le was required to age more than 30 years in the course of the movie as Hayslip, who is raped...
- 1/2/2018
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Hiep Thi Le, the actress best-known for her critically acclaimed role in Oliver Stone’s 1994 film Heaven and Earth, died Tuesday. She was 46.
According to Deadline, Le died of complications from stomach cancer. The actress starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in Stone’s film and followed the story of a woman living in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Le was born in Vietnam but fled the country as a refugee with her younger sister at the age of 8 when she was placed on a boat by her mother in 1979 in an attempt to reunite with her father in Hong Kong,...
According to Deadline, Le died of complications from stomach cancer. The actress starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in Stone’s film and followed the story of a woman living in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Le was born in Vietnam but fled the country as a refugee with her younger sister at the age of 8 when she was placed on a boat by her mother in 1979 in an attempt to reunite with her father in Hong Kong,...
- 12/20/2017
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
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