Hong Sangsoo wins Berlinale Best Director
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer Renowned South Korean director Hong Sangsoo won the prestigious Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale)[…]
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‘Parasite’ wins Best Picture, makes Oscar history and more
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer After sweeping one award show after another, beginning with the Palme d’Or in 2019, the South Korean movie “Parasite” topped it off by[…]
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Lee Isaac Chung Wins Sundance 2020 Top Prizes
By DIANA CHENGAAP Film & Arts Writer Korean American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung scored double honors at the Awards Ceremony of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah,[…]
Kirsten Tan wins 2020 SFFILM New American Fellowship
San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM) announced today that Singaporean American filmmaker Kirsten Tan is the winner of the 2020 New American Fellowship, supporting her narrative feature “Higher” which is[…]
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‘Parasite’ Makes Oscar History
By DIANA CHENGAAP Film & Arts Writer The Bong Joon Ho directed, genre-bending South-Korean feature ‘Parasite’ makes history today as the 92nd Academy Awards announced its nominees in the early[…]
Awkwafina and Bong Joon Ho Make Golden Globe History
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer The 77th Golden Globe Awards took place at the Beverly Hilton on January 5th, kicking off the film awards momentum of the new[…]
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Lulu Wang’s ‘The Farewell’ is poised to be noticed at Awards Season
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer At the Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York City, the multi-talented Chinese-American rapper, comedian, and actor Awkwafina just wins the Best[…]
‘To the Ends of the Earth’ is a window to a distant land
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer “To the Ends of the Earth” is Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s newest feature, a U.S. premiere at the 57th New York Film Festival (NYFF) in[…]
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‘Hala’ is a portrait of a teenager caught between two cultures
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer Chicago born writer-director Minhal Baig’s character study of an immigrant teenager named Hala is an intimate coming-of-age story of a girl struggling to[…]
‘Parasite’ is an entertaining wild ride
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer South Korean director Bong Joon-ho can make social statements in the most unconventional ways, like through the friendship between a child and a[…]
