18th Boston Asian American Film Festival Opens Tonight With 'Isle Child'; Opening Night Sold Out
BOSTON — The 18th Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF) opened on the evening of October 15 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, with Isle Child, directed by Korean American filmmaker Thomas Percy Kim, as the opening-night film. The 7 p.m. screening was sold out, with Kim and lead actor Ethan Hwang attending an in-person Q&A.
Isle Child follows a young Korean-American adoptee who discovers a hidden letter revealing that his birth mother is terminally ill in Korea, and must choose between the life he has built and confronting the truth of his past. The festival runs in person through October 25, with its main venue at the Emerson Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street in Boston. BAAFF, a co-production of the Asian American Resource Workshop and ArtsEmerson, is New England's largest Asian American film festival.
The centerpiece narrative, Jersey Boy, screens October 17 at 6 p.m. at the Paramount Center. The closing-night film on October 25 at 4 p.m. is Montreal, My Beautiful, directed by Xiaodan He, about a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant mother living in Montreal; the closing screening is also sold out. The documentary Chinatown Cha-Cha, directed by Luka Yuanyuan Yang, screens October 18 at 3:30 p.m. and follows 92-year-old former nightclub dancer Coby Yee as she returns to the stage with the Grant Avenue Follies on a tour linking Chinese communities in the U.S., Cuba and China.
Tickets are $25 for opening night, $20 for closing night and $15 for feature and shorts programs, with an all-access festival pass at $150.
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 开幕片《Isle Child》剧照 · 波士顿亚裔美国人电影节官方发布
