Archive for May, 2009

Congratulations to:

Mon nom est Tuan (2008) Nguyen-Anh Nguyen, for winning the big award of the evening of $1000 in post production services provided by Videographe. (Provincial, Quebec Award)

State of Yo (2007) Jason Karman, for winning the $500 dollar cash prize Award (for National contestants)

A Tall Tale (2009) Kelly-Anne Riess, for winning the Visual Media Artists Award for Asian & Canadian Women Filmmakers, a $500 value in post-production services provided by GIV – Groupe Intervention Video.

Harvest Moon (2009) Mina Vladimir, for winning the audience choice Award of $500 in post-production services provided by Main Film.

Congratulations to:

Mon nom est Tuan (2008) Nguyen-Anh Nguyen, for winning the big award of the evening of $1000 in post production services provided by Videographe. (Provincial, Quebec Award)

State of Yo (2007) Jason Karman, for winning the $500 dollar cash prize Award (for National contestants)

A Tall Tale (2009) Kelly-Anne Riess, for winning the Visual Media Artists Award for Asian & Canadian Women Filmmakers, a $500 value in post-production services provided by GIV – Groupe Intervention Video.

Harvest Moon (2009) Mina Vladimir, for winning the audience choice Award of $500 in post-production services provided by Main Film.

Please visit the contest page HERE for more info and details about the contest!

A Person (2009)

By Ping Ng, Mina Vladmir, & Esteban Vargas

4.38 min

Montréal, Québec

Un mannequin en bois nous mène à travers les périples et malheurs d’une crise d’identité. Il tente de trouver le comfort et des réponses dans la ville.

A wooden figure guides us through harsh realities of an identity crises. Take a look into his sometimes comical and psychotic world as he seeks to find answers and comfort through the city.

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Ciné-Asie’s 2nd Annual National Portrait Contest

Ciné-Asie’s 2nd Annual National Portrait Contest being held May 22nd at the Cinémathèque Québécoise Café-Bar, 335 Blvd. De Maisoneuve Est. from 18:00 – 22:00 pm screenings start at 19:00pm)

Ciné-Asie’s National Portrait Contest is an annual event that encourages and supports emerging Asian and Canadian visual media artists. The screening of short films and video entries at this years event have been received from all across Canada such as Quebec, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. The theme for this year’s edition is Portraiture, and the presentations lasting anywhere between 30 secs in length to 10 mins, explore a vast array of topics such as youth, identity, belonging, nomenclature, history, family, heritage, sexuality, culture, distance, and community.

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The Ciné-Asie team will be in Cannes for the Festival de Cannes to meet with prospective co-production and distribution partners, scout films for distribution and to promote our ongoing projects. To get in touch or schedule a meeting:

Mi-Jeong Lee, Ciné-Asie Director/Producer: cineasie@gmail.com, 1-514-799-6880.

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Our new ventures into Sales & Distribution continues to gain momentum. We are currently in the process of acquiring several Canadian features for Asian distribution and a couple of South Korean film for distribution in North America.

We are always looking for new and interesting films to distribute in North America and Asia, with an emphasis on Asian and Canadian films. Please contact us for more information.