Awards
The Best Documentary Award is given to the best feature-length documentary film by or about Asian Americans or Asian Canadians, as chosen by a three-person jury. The winner will be announced during the Closing Night Gala party on Thursday, March 17.
Nominees
- 62 YEARS AND 6500 MILES BETWEEN (USA/Taiwan, Dir. Anita Wen-shin Chang)
- AND THEREAFTER (USA/South Korea, Dir. Hosup Lee)
- CHINESE RESTAURANTS: THREE CONTINENTS (Canada, Dir. Cheuk Kwan)
- CONTINUOUS JOURNEY (Canada, Dir. Ali Kazimi)
- FROM A SILK COCOON (USA, Dirs. Satsuki Ina & Stephen Holsapple)
- THE GRACE LEE PROJECT (USA, Dir. Grace Lee)
- I WAS BORN, BUT... (USA, Dir. Roddy Bogawa)
- MONKEY DANCE (USA, Dir. Julie Mallozzi)
- SORCERESS OF THE NEW PIANO (USA/Singapore/Hong Kong, Dir. Evans Chan)
- WHAT'S WRONG WITH FRANK CHIN? (USA, Dir. Curtis Choy)
The Jury
Cynthia Kane
Cynthia Kane is the Manager of Film Programming for the Sundance Channel, where she scouts documentaries and world cinema and programs on-air festivals such as ARTE LATINO, NY, NY, A TASTE OF IRAN and NOT EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY: CLASSIC & CONTEMPORARY WORK FROM THE AMERICAN UNDERGROUND. She currently curates and programs documentaries for Sundance Channel's DOCday. Prior to joining the Sundance Channel in 1999, Kane worked in programming and acquisitions at Showtime Networks and also on several independent feature films, including the Independent Spirit Award-nominated BANG directed by Ash and FLESH SUITCASE directed by Paul Duran.
Emiko Omori
Emiko Omori is a San Francisco-based award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer. Her works, including the feature documentaries RABBIT IN THE MOON and SKIN STORIES, have screened worldwide to critical acclaim. In her words, "Having accidentally become a filmmaker, I realize that I have been shooting and making films for thirty-five years! That wild, stressful, exhilarating, depressing, exciting, hellish, and heavenly ride was and continues to be full of wonder and rich with the stories of the many lives I have recorded and been touched by. And the possibility of changing lives, for the better of course (mine most definitely), is the seductive promise that keeps the whole catastrophe moving on."
Helen Zia
Helen Zia is an award-winning journalist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for more than twenty years. She is a contributing editor to Ms. magazine, where she was formerly executive editor. Her articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Nation, Essence, A. Magazine, The Advocate, Social Policy, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She is also the author of ASIAN-AMERICAN DREAMS: THE EMERGENGE OF AN AMERICAN PEOPLE, and the co-author with Wen Ho Lee of MY COUNTRY VERSUS ME.
