Northwest Asian American Film Festival currently seeks entries for our 2007 festival. NOTE: For this year's festival, we are only accepting Asian American short film and videos (60 min. or less) in the following categories:

• Films produced by artists working or living in the Northwest (including but not limited to Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia).
• Films intended for children and produced by artists working or living anywhere in North America.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION:

1. Complete and send the entry form to NWAAFF 2007:
   • By email to info@nwaaff.org.
   • By fax to 309-424-9731.
   • By mail to Theatre Off Jackson, Attn: NWAAFF 2007, 409 7th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104.
2. Send your film to NWAAFF 2007:
   • By mail on 1/2" VHS NTSC or DVD NTSC to Theatre Off Jackson, Attn: NWAAFF 2007, 409 7th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104. Please indicate the film's title and contact information on the tape/disc.
   • As a URL where your film may be viewed online (e.g. YouTube, Google Video, etc.).

Please do not include additional promotional materials.

EXHIBITION FORMATS: Betacam SP NTSC, DVCAM/MiniDV NTSC, and VHS NTSC.

DEADLINES: Mailed entries must be postmarked and electronic entries must be sent no later than SEPTEMBER 30, 2006. Receipt of entries will be confirmed via email. Final selections will be announced in November 2007.

ENTRY FEE: There is no entry fee for this year's festival.

Entry forms can be downloaded at www.nwaaff.org. Email questions to info@nwaaff.org.

Henry Darger:
Highlights from the American Folk Art Museum

August 19 – October 29, 2006

Henry Darger (1892–1973) was a self-taught reclusive artist who created and inhabited an imaginary world through extensive writings, paintings, and drawings. After Darger’s death, his Chicago neighbor and landlord discovered and made public Darger’s previously unknown volume of work.

This solitary artist left behind several diaries and manuscripts including a six-part weather journal, an autobiography in eight volumes, and his 15,000-page illustrated epic, The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal. Accompanied by watercolor paintings and collages, the novel focuses on a band of girls’ heroic efforts to free enslaved children held captive by an army of adults. The novel and its illustrations are whimsical and sinister in their depiction of war and peace and good versus evil.

Drawn from the American Folk Art Museum’s Henry Darger Collection, this traveling exhibition includes twenty paintings, drawings, and tracings by the artist, source materials—including newspaper clippings, magazines, comic books, cartoons, and coloring books—and Darger’s personal documents and other ephemera. One bound volume of the original typewritten manuscript for In the Realms of the Unreal will also be exhibited.

RELATED EVENTS

Film

In The Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger

Screening with Filmmaker Jessica Yu

Saturday, October 14, 7 pm

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// posted by Wes on Friday, September 01, 2006  /