The Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) is an international film festival held annually during the summer in New York City to showcase the works of both emerging and experienced Asian and Asian American filmmakers and media artists across a diverse range of genres and styles.
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First organized in 1977 by Asian CineVision (ACV),[1] a nonprofit media arts organization "dedicated to promoting and preserving Asian and Asian American media expressions", the festival is the considered the first Asian American film festival in the United States and is the second longest running film festival in New York City.[2]
The films presented in AAIFF are featured in the annual National Festival Tour that has historically provided the seed-stock for most of the Asian American festivals that have sprung up in subsequent years around the country.
The 34th Asian American International Film Festival will be held from August 10–20, 2011.[3] The AAIFF'11 Opening Night Presentation[4] is John Sayles's Amigo.[5] This is the 17th feature film from writer-director John Sayles, and stars Joel Torre as Rafael Dacanay, a village mayor caught in the murderous cross-fire of the Philippine-American War in 1900.