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16 July 2008 2:38 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

The award winners for the 2008 edition of the New York Asian Film Festival have been announced and, with a drum roll please, here they are:

This year the New York Asian Film Festival gave two sets of awards this year. One was the Audience Award that we give every year, selected by the audience, then, for the first time ever, we had a jury who gave out five awards, including a Grand Prize.

The winners of the jury awards for the New York Asian Film Festival 2008 are:

- Winner - New York Asian Film Festival Grand Prize

Sad Vacation directed by Shinji Aoyama

- Honorable Mention and Best Ensemble Cast

Sparrow

Strawberry Shortcakes

- Best Visual Achievement

Lee Myung-Se for M

Joko Anwar for Kala

- Outstanding Achievement

Koji Wakamatsu for United Red Army

- Best Debut Feature

Ryo Nakajima for This World Of Ours

For the Audience Award we »

- Todd Brown

20 June 2008 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Asian cinema fans rejoice, the New York Asian Film Festival is back with a vengeance! Every summer since 2002 Grady Hendrix and the fine folks over at Subway Cinema roll out a collection of some 30 films representing the best Asia has to offer. Now in its 7th year, the Nyaff has established itself as one of the very best Asian film fests going anywhere, with a cross-section of art-house, big budget, and plain weird pictures abound.This year’s fest promises to be the largest in its short history with 43 films screening along with two programs of short films out of South Korea. They’ve also scored some big time guests to present their latest works including Myung-se Lee (M) and Ryo Iwamatsu (Then Summer Came). In a major coup for the fest, legendary (and infamous) film provocateur Koji Wakamatsu will hold a live Q&A via satellite for his latest United Red Army. »

2 articles from 2008