A torrential downpour drums against the windows of a Chinatown apartment building as an N-train rumbles over the Manhattan Bridge. A late-night set by a local Brooklyn band rings in the New Year while fluorescent lights in corporate offices high above the Midtown streets emit their low, persistent hum. Back on the street, a chorus of languages coalesce into collective musing. In the city that never sleeps, nothing is ever silent.
Since 1978, the Asian American International Film Festival, produced by Asian CineVision, is the nation’s first and longest running festival of its kind and the premier showcase for the best Asian independent and Asian American cinema. AAIFF is committed to film and media as a tool for social change and to the support of diversity and inclusion in independent cinema and the Asian American media arts.