Slant: Bold Asian American Images

800 Aurora Street
Houston, TX 77009
713.868.2101 phone
pel_mel@hotmail.com email
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org (click on banner for Slant) website

Area of Inerest:
Organization - Annual Film & Art Festival

Primary Ethnic Community Served:
chinese, korean, japanese, vietnamese, indian

Description:
Now in its 3rd year. Slant: Bold Asian Americna Images delivers a strong sampling of current Asian American cinema, visual art, music and literary work. Forget Jackie Chan and Jet Li. These works are homegrown and explore the expressions of Asian Americans. This small multi-disciplinary festival is devoted to showcasing contemporary art by Asian Americans and building an audience for that work. The films are presented by the Aurora Picture Show, a nonprofit microcinema housed in a former church built in 1924. Known as Houston's "Film Church," the Aurora still has church pews. Many of the films screened at Slant are making their Texas premieres. The festival takes place each May.

Staff:
Melissa Hung, Festival Director

Submitted by:
Melissa Hung

New - 04/23/03