Featured Programs
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Aunt Lily’s Flower Book
Live / Live Performance / 60 mins
In this mixed media theater performance, Emmy-winning musician Mark Izu accompanies his wife and “America’s foremost Asian storyteller” Brenda Wong Aoki to share touching and personal family histories with universal and contemporary appeal.
Aunt Lily’s Flower Book
Lightbox Film Center
November 11, 2017 6:15 pm Buy Tickets -
Memories to Light
Free / USA / Home Movie / 60 mins
PAAFF is excited to present a selection of home movies collected in the San Francisco Bay Area spanning 1920s-1970s and featuring Chinese American families.
Memories To Light
Institute of Contemporary Art
November 12, 2017 1:30 pm
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Centerpiece Documentary: Finding Kukan
Robin Lung / Documentary / USA / Documentary, Short / 75 mins
Documentary filmmaker Robin Lung investigates Li Ling-Ai, the uncredited female producer of KUKAN, a landmark color film about the atrocities committed by Imperial Japan in China.
Centerpiece Documentary: Finding Kukan
Lightbox Film Center
November 12, 2017 6:45 pm Buy Tickets -
Blasian Narratives
Live / Live Performance / 50 mins
Blasian Narratives is a multi-media “Docu-Theatre” project that explores the intersectional identities of mixed-race Black & Asian individuals through an integrated live performance and film screening.
Blasian Narratives
Asian Arts Initiative
November 18, 2017 7:15 pm
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Far Western
James Payne / Free / USA / Documentary / 81 mins
Far Western is a music-fueled, character-driven documentary film about Japan’s history and obsession with American country music.
Far Western
Fleisher Art Memorial
November 16, 2017 7:45 pm -
PAAFF Conference
Free Conference / Presentation & Film
In partnership with University of Pennsylvania Asian American Studies Program and Greater Philadelphia Asian Studies Consortium, we present the second annual PAAFF Conference.
PAAFF Conference
University of Pennsylvania
November 11, 2017 10:00 am
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Centerpiece Narrative: Better Luck Tomorrow
Justin Lin / Narrative / USA / Crime Drama, Teen / 101 mins
Ben (Parry Shen) is a perfectionist and overachiever whose tunnel vision leads to nothing less than graduating at the top of his class.
Centerpiece Narrative: Better Luck Tomorrow
Lightbox Film Center
November 11, 2017 9:30 pm Buy Tickets -
Opening Night: The Dragon Painter
William Worthington / Drama / USA / 1919 / Drama / 53 mins
Starring Japanese immigrant Sessue Hayakawa, this early Hollywood silent film is a fantasy romance about love and creative inspiration.
Opening Night: The Dragon Painter
Lightbox Film Center
November 9, 2017 7:00 pm Buy Tickets
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Tiger Style!
Live / Live Performance
Before the screening of STAND UP MAN, Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists (PAPA) present an excerpt from TIGER STYLE! – a play by Mike Lew.
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Closing Night: The Soul of the Tiger
Francois Yang / France, Switzerland / Narrative / 91 mins
After his brother suddenly dies, dies, Alex, a thirty-something man of French Chinese descent, returns to Paris in search of an explanation.
Closing Night: The Soul Of The Tiger
Asian Arts Initiative
November 19, 2017 6:15 pm
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4 Pillars
Live / Shorts & Live Performance / 120 mins
This shorts program explores the Four Pillars of Hip Hop and the various Asian American communities that have immersed themselves in them.
4 Pillars Shorts + Year Of The Ox Live
Asian Arts Initiative
November 17, 2017 8:30 pm -
Traitor
Live / Live Performance / 90 mins
PAAFF is excited to present for the first time a staged reading of a new original play by Steven de Castro (Fred Ho’s Last Year).
Traitor
InterAct Theatre
November 13, 2017 7:00 pm
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Governor Wolf’s Advisory Commission on APA Affairs
Public Hearing
Meet the commissioners who represent the AAPI community on Governor Wolf’s Advisory Commission at the this public hearing and community listening session.
