Asian World Film Festival
The Asian World Film Festival is a film festival based in Los Angeles, California. In its first year it ran from October 26 to November 2, 2015, and will continue for 5 years. The Festival is an initiative by Kyrgyz public figure and filmmaker, Sadyk Sher-Niyaz.[1] The 2016 festival dates are 24 October – 1 November 2016.
Founding
Sher-Niyaz founded the Festival in late 2014, after his own experience in running a campaign for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards. Sher-Niyaz was the director of the Kyrgyz submission, Kurmanjan Datka: Queen of the Mountains, which according to the Hollywood Reporter was predicted one of the top 15 contenders.[2]
Sher-Niyaz told TheWrap that he created the Festival to help other Asian filmmakers in their Oscar campaigns. ″I created the Asian World Film Festival to fill a void that I noticed was missing in America. There is a wealth of underrated filmmakers from our region that deserve recognition and this festival was designed to champion and promote them,″ festival chairman and creator Sadyk Sher-Niyaz said.[3]
References
- ^ "TheWrap Partners With Asian World Film Festival for Inaugural Year". www.thewrap.com. TheWrap. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
- ^ Feinburg, Scott. "Feinberg Forecast". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
- ^ "TheWrap Partners With Asian World Film Festival for Inaugural Year". TheWrap. 31 March 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
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