The Moustache Brothers Burmese comedy troop, a tribute to Asian American activist Chris Ijima, Taiwan’s ”foreign brides,” America’s Next Top Immigrant, a mock game show and a fresh look at eyelid surgery, a rite of passage for Korean American women are among the subjects realized by filmmakers at the 32nd Asian American International Film Festival 2009 (AAIFF09).
Asian CineVision proudly presents the 2009/10 National Festival Tour featuring the year’s best independent cinema - narrative and documentary features and shorts - from AAIFF09. The National Festival Tour offers institutions and organizations the rare opportunity to bring many Asian and Asian American films to local communities across the country.

The only traveling festival of its kind in the U.S., this year’s tour offers 14 programs representing ten countries including, China, The Philippines, Australia, Singapore and Taiwan. A percentage of the rental fees goes directly to the filmmakers, so it is also a great way for your organization to directly support independent filmmakers and artists.
Be among the long list of schools that have recently hosted the National Tour: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Brown University, Columbia University, Hong Kong Asian American Film Festival, China University, Northern Colorado State University, Williams College, Yale University, Harvard University, UC Santa Barbara, Ithaca College and University of Illinois (Urbana).
Cinema societies & art institutions have also hosted the National Tour: High Museum of Art (Atlanta), The Redhouse (Syracuse NY), Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Corporate affinity groups that have screened the tour: Goldman-Sachs, Clifford Chance, JPMorgan Chase, Macy’s, Time Incorporated and Colgate-Palmolive.

For more information regarding the films or how to bring the tour to your organization, please contact tour@asiancinevision.org or (212) 989-1422.