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27.05.2022 - 16:21 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and Janet Yang Productions announced the four winners of the inaugural Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge, which awards a $15,000 production grant to four AAPI women or non-binary filmmakers.
Selected from a pool of over 400 applicants, four grantees will be offered networking opportunities with Emmy and Golden Globe-winning producer Janet Yang and the CAPE network, as well as the chance to submit films to potential buyers and platforms.
Julia S. Gouw, a member of the board of directors of East West Bancorp, Inc. and East West Bank, helped fund the Short Film Challenge to uplift AAPI and non-binary filmmakers.
“There was no better team than Janet [Yang] and the all-women-led team at CAPE to fulfill my vision to create more representation in the AAPI community,” Gouw said. “I hope this Film Challenge will provide more opportunities, particularly for AAPI women and non-binary filmmakers, to continue to tell stories that are about us and by us.”
Yang added that she also noticed a dearth of a certain voices in Hollywood and wanted to provide a platform for their creative visions.
“I had a theory that many incredibly worthy female and non-binary Asian filmmakers weren’t getting sufficiently noticed. When we received an overwhelming number of wonderful submissions, this theory was proven true,” Yang added. “It is thrilling and gratifying to amplify the voices of this talented group, but also heartbreakingly difficult to choose only four winners.”
The biographies of the 2022 Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge winners are as follows:
Banban Cheng (they/them): Banban Cheng is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker who spent their childhood performing Chinese stand-up comedy in Houston,
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