Asian American Film

139 Fulton Street. Suite 412
New York, NY 10038
greg@AsianAmericanFilm.com email
http://www.asianamericanfilm.com website

Area of Inerest:
Media Resource - Movies

Primary Ethnic Community Served:
Pan Asian

Description:
The mission of AsianAmericanFilm.com is to build an engaged, involved, active, and excited audience for Asian American films.

Why bother?
First, good films deserve to be seen and audiences deserve to see good films. By getting the word out, AsianAmericanFilm.com will maximize joy on all ends by getting films and viewers together. Hooray! Second, getting more people out to see Asian American films is the key to getting more Asian American films made, thereby fighting the much-lamented negative images of Asians in mainstream American media.

Here's how it works:
Film financing requires stars. So Asian American filmmakers will continue to have great difficulty finding financing for films with Asian American characters as long as the pool of Asian American stars remains so small. But actors only become stars when they're in financially successful films. Thus, by building the audience for Asian American films, this website will make it more likely that good Asian American features will get their audiences, become financially successful, and break the Catch-22 preventing the financing of Asian American films.

Staff:
Greg Pak, Editor & Publisher
Stephen Bai, contributing writer
Jean Chung, photographer
Joan Huang, contributing writer

Submitted by:
AIA Staff

New - 04/28/03