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AWFF is proud to present its Official Selection of 2023 Asian Academy Award® and Golden Globe submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language respectively, along with a series of Asian Film Day programs,. exclusive presentations and tribute retrospectives. The Festival aims to promote all films through physical screenings, panels, special events and social media platforms, in order to assist the filmmakers in their campaigns for Award success.
Screening: November 13, 2023 @ 1 PM PT
Where: The Culver Theater
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Genre: Drama
Duration: 144 min
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Language(s): Madarin
Subtitles: English
Producers: Sanping Han, Peter Lam, Guangquan Liu, Dai Song, Yiyang Wang, Zhongjun Wang, Albert Yeung
Director of Photography: Yue Lü
Editor: Yan Li
Principal Cast: Guoli Zhang, Hanyu Zhang, Wei Fan, Yuanzheng Feng
Synopsis:
In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by the most tragic famine in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.
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Asian World Film Festival
The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF), founded by Kyrgyz public figure Sadyk Sher-Niyaz and overseen by Executive & Program Director Georges N. Chamchoum, brings the very best of a broad selection of Asian World cinema to Los Angeles to draw greater recognition to the region's wealth of filmmakers and strengthen ties between the Asian and Hollywood film industries. Uniting through cross-cultural collaboration, the Festival champions films from over 50 countries across Asia, spanning from Turkey to Japan and from Russia to India and South-East Asia. The Festival is unique in that it predominantly screens Oscar and Golden Globe submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language respectively. All films that participate in the Festival will have a unique chance to be guided through the challenging awards season and showcased to members of the Motion Picture Academy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and all Guilds for enhanced exposure, media attention and awards consideration. AWFF is a non-profit organization under Aitysh USA.