13th NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
June 27 – July 14, 2014
at Film Society of Lincoln Center (June 27 – July 10)
Japan Society (July 10-13)
Asia Society (July 13-14)
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema, in association
with the Japan Society, have announced that Umin Boya’s Kano has
been selected as the Centerpiece selection for this year’s New York
Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), June 27 – July 14, 2014. Returning for
its 13th edition, the New York Asian Film Festival is one of North
America’s leading festivals of popular Asian Cinema.
Umin Boya's Kano, produced and co-written by Taiwan's hitmaker Wei Te-Sheng (Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, Cape No.7), is
an epic sports tale, based on a true story from Taiwan's colonial past,
about an underdog mixed-race high-school baseball team that beat the
odds and earned the right to travel to Japan in 1931 to compete in a
national tournament. In order to succeed against their elite
competition, the team had to overcome their ethnic differences and find a
way to utilize their individual strengths in order to come together as a
true team. The screening will mark the film’s North American Premiere.
NYAFF’s Korean Actor in Focus program
will welcome Lee Jung-jae to New York City and present some of his most
notable films as well as two exciting recent releases: Han
Jae-rim’s historical comedy-drama The Face Reader, and Park Hoon-jung’s epic gangster thriller New World.
Early highlights among the first group of titles announced include Philip Yung’s explosive female-juvenile-delinquent drama May We Chat; Benny Chan’s resurrection of the heroic bloodshed genre The White Storm; Lee Kung-lok’s porn-industry comedy 3D Naked Ambition (NYAFF’s first 3-D movie!); superstar Andy Lau in Allen Yuen’s heart-busting police thriller Firestorm; Juno Mak’s hopping-vampire homage Rigor Mortis, along with the classic that inspired it, Ricky Lau’s Mr. Vampire; and Chow Yun-fat reuniting with director Wong Jing in the gambling comedy From Vegas to Macau.
The
legendary Takashi Miike will also be represented at NYAFF once again
with his outrageous gangster comedy based on a popular manga, The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji. Korean cops take on a criminal mastermind in Jo Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo’s thriller Cold Eyes; Takashi Yamazaki’s Japanese WWII kamikaze pilot drama The Eternal Zero; and Anna Broinowski’s Aim High in Creation, a behind-the-scenes look at the North Korean film industry, are also set to screen.
Keep up with the latest festival news at: www.facebook.com/NYAFF, www.
Tickets will go on sale to Members of the Film Society of Lincoln Center on Tuesday, June 3 and to the General Public on Thursday, June 12. Single screening tickets are $13; $9 for students and seniors (62+); and $8 for Film Society members. A three-film package is $30; $24 for students and seniors (62+); and $21 for Film Society members. Discount prices apply with the purchase of tickets to three films or more.
Visit www.FilmLinc.com for complete film festival information.
Screenings will be held at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater (located at 165 West 65th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway), Japan Society (333 East 47th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues), and Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, at 70th Street).
The 2014 NYAFF receives support from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York, the Korean Cultural Service New York, the Taipei
Economic and Cultural Office in New York, Kenneth A. Cowin Foundation,
and The Celebrity magazine.
NYAFF's sponsors include The Kitano Hotel, Anthology Film Archives, Møsefund Farm, Manhattan Portage, Well Go USA, Epic Proportions, Flaskingtree, and Kirin. Its media partners are Screen International, Film Business Asia, and Noonchi.
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