LACFFSC Winners Announced!
11/15/2021
After nearly 7 months of script evaluations by 50 preliminary and 20 final round judges, we are proud to announce the award winners of our inaugural screenwriting competition on November 14th during the Summit. The participants of this contest truly illustrated the range of talents within our community. From indie features to epic war series, one thing was clear, we have got the talent and work that not only represented us but also challenged the status quo of Hollywood. Let’s celebrate the outstanding works of these award winners, and we are looking forward to the contest in the future! Click below for more information on the award winners.
LACFF Annual Summit has arrived!
11/11/2021
Join us on GatherTown for our inaugural LACFF Summit event. Over the next four days, we present to you 10 curated events, ranging from pitch sessions, writer’s workshops, and filmmaking panels. In addition, the summit will screen over 20 films including the opening film, A WRITER’S ODYSSEY, and the closing film, MY LOVE. Last but not least, we will conclude our first bilingual international screenwriting contest with the much-anticipated award ceremony.
LACFFSC FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!
10/25/2021
We are very excited to present the finalists of our international bilingual screenwriting contest! Over $10,000 of prize will be awarded to 6 outstanding scripts. Join us on Gather.Town between November 11th and 14th for the LACFF Summit, which will conclude the screenwriting contest with a live pitch session and the award ceremony.
lacffsc semi-finalistS announced!
10/05/2021
The team at LACFFSC has been very busy and after countless hours of evaluation, we have the semi-finalists for this competition. Congratulations to our contestants and good luck in the next phase.
LACFF ANNUAL SUMMIT
09/20/2021
The people of LACFF love trying out new things and reinventing our programs to better serve Chinese creative talents around the globe. The evaluation process for LACFF’s first ever bilingual international screenwriting competition is underway, and we want to give you a sneak peek at our carefully curated Annual Summit, which will conclude the screenwriting competition with an exciting slate of events on the metaverse platform, GatherTown. Customize your own retro-game avatar to participate, socialize, or just lay back and chill as if you were in-person. This will be an event experience unlike any others! Embrace the “in-between” identity of a cross-cultural filmmaker and meet your kindred spirits across the Pacific on November 11 – 14 th .
LACFF SCREENWRITING COMPETITION
04/10/2021
Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival Screenwriting Competition (LACFFSC) is an international screenplay competition that acts as a complement to the Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival. Our screenwriting competition aims to identify and select outstanding projects that explore and uplift Chinese culture and the Chinese diaspora. We also hope to foster cultural exchange and celebrate cultural diversity through an annual Summit that features industry panels, workshops, pitch sessions, award ceremonies, and social events. We deeply believe that promoting diverse storytelling is one of the best vehicles to teach and generate empathy and compassion to combat racism, bigotry, and xenophobia.
Re//claiming Our Voice
04/01/2021
This May, Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival (LACFF), along with Chinese In Entertainment (CIE), will organize a series of programs in celebration of AAPI heritage month as well as in response to the recent surge in hate crimes toward the Asian community.
Centered on the theme “Re//Claiming Our Voice,” the events intend to amplify AAPI narratives and empower AAPI filmmakers. In this time of racism, xenophobia, and inequality, LACFF and CIE want to focus on the AAPI community’s agency, their activism, and their creative talent.
Our regular programming Speaker Series will continue this month. The Speaker Series will focus on the topic of racial justice, inviting influential speakers from the AAPI community to share their stories and insights. We will also screen The Race Epidemic, a documentary film that tells the unique story of AAPIs within the broader context of racism in America. The producer Ronald Wong, founder of the Asian Pacific American Leadership Foundation, director Tony Shyu, and more will join us for a Q&A session.
Special Virtual Panel "Documenting the Pandemic"
03/25/2021
LACFF invites Hao Zhou (The Chinese Mayor) and Hao Wu (76 Days), two directors who had been documenting people's life and struggle during the pandemic, to share their observations, feelings, and contemplation during their shooting experiences. Experienced film critic, a scholar of modern Chinese literature, and Golden Horse Award judge Professor Michael Berry will join the panel and discuss his translated book Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City (2020). Rebecca Davis, the China bureau chief of Variety will serve as the moderator of the panel.
LGBTQ SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
01/10/2021
LOS ANGELES CHINESE FILM FESTIVAL LGBTQ SHOWCASE