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International Oscar Contenders Boost Asian World Film Festival Competition Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)
International Oscar contenders “12:12: The Day” “Old Fox” and more boost Asian World Film Festival lineup
“We are very grateful to the filmmakers around the world supporting this year’s lineup with more than 60 narrative and documentary films,” says Georges N. Chamchoum, AWFF executive director, said. The AWFF also includes a 12-film shorts program, with the winning film being awarded a Panavision camera package valued at $15,000. Other special presentations include the Oscar-qualifying feature and short films screenings, including feature doc “The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru,” from Chinese director Fang Li, and live action shorts “About Mannequin,” director Aruzhan Dossymkozha’s black and white silent tribute to Kazakh storytelling, and “The Unreachable Star,” from Asian-American filmmaker Sharon S. Park.
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