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🎬VAFF’s annual short filmmaking competition
🦸‍♀️21 years of empowering Asian filmmakers
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AND HERE THEY ARE! The wait is over! We're thrilled to introduce the finalists competing in this year's Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon. With only 60 seconds to tell a story, these teams are taking on one of filmmaking's biggest creative challenges, and we can't wait to see what they create. 🌟1 Minute Ultra Shorts Finalists🌟 ✨🦷MAMMolars (Xelena Clarisse Ilon) @xehlena ✨ Meat Cookie (Emma Eng) @emmaeng44 ✨🐓Squib Game (Kevin Cho) @itskcho @anthonypoon_ ✨📒THE RECIPE (Sammy Vu) @i.am.s.a.m.m.y ✨🩴Vaanar Sena (Yash Ahuja) @bulldozer003 ✨📔WHYs the Short (Wen-chieh Chi) @wenchiehchi ✨💸Wingrove (Ethan Wingrove) @ethanwingrovetv ✨☕️Wuwick (Lindsay Wu & Kyle Kotowick) @sonotlindsay @kylekotowick Each of these teams brings a unique voice, perspective, and creative vision to the marathon. Over the coming weeks, they'll transform ideas into films inspired by this year's theme, Reflections & Reinventions. Show these teams some love in the comments and stay tuned to see what they create! 🔥 Let the marathon begin. #MAMM21 #VAFF30 #AsiansInFilm #DiversityInFilm #MAMM by @mamm_vaff

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THE WAIT IS OVER! We're excited to welcome these teams to the 10-Minute category of this year's Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon. Each team brings a unique voice and creative vision, and we can't wait to see how they bring Reflections & Reinventions to life on screen. 🌟10 Minute Shorts Finalists🌟 🎬️🎙Barong Media Inc. (Ryan Lino) @ryanlino @lourizatronco @skyloreang 🎬📄Domi Domi Production (Sonia Chou) @soniachouu 🎬📝Infinity (Amir Arab) @amirlove4cinema 🎬🥁Long (Lianne Guo) @li.an.ne.send_halp @chlxris_ @L_guo.on.set 🎬🥒Movie Mafia (G Amarnath Sankar) @withlove_amar 🎬🏡The ManimTeam (Jonah Manimtim, Angelo Jordan & Ayush Senanayake) @okayalrightfilm @jonahsfilms @angelojordan @ay.0shi🎬💘Young Castle Productions (Marc Yungco) @mjyungco 🎬🎭YOUTOPIA (Jun Lee) @its_jun____ We look forward to following these teams as they transform ideas into films and take on the creative challenge ahead. 🍿 Let the marathon begin! #MAMM21 #VAFF30 #AsiansInFilm #DiversityInFilm #MAMM by @mamm_vaff

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THE SCREEN JUST GOT TALLER! Storytelling doesn't always happen on the big screen. We're excited to introduce the teams competing in the Vertical Series category of this year's Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon. Designed for the way we watch today, this category invites filmmakers to think beyond traditional formats and embrace the creative possibilities of the vertical frame. 🌟Finalist Teams🌟 📱🔄Glowmaxxing (Sher Bloom) @sherbloomy @kelso_lenz 📱🧧MEE-lo (Apple Chang) @changyujou_ 📱 ✈️Yalla Habib (Noah Penner) @npennerinfilm @rob.zed @elliekhanverdi From compelling characters to innovative visual storytelling, these teams are ready to bring Reflections & Reinventions to life in a format built for the palm of your hand. 📲 Big stories. Vertical frame. Endless possibilities. #MAMM21 #VAFF30 #AsiansInFilm #DiversityInFilm #MAMM by @mamm_vaff

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👉 We’re pointing you toward 19 teams, 10 days, and a whole lot of filmmaking. Welcome to #MAMM21!We’re ready to cheer on our finalists and support them throughout the competition. 🎬Not pictured, but very much part of the team: Regina, Tammy, and Justin 💛@alwaysmisscheerful Lynne Lee (MAMM Director & Producer)@reginaunplugged Regina Leung (Director of VAFF Industry)@shanthini.bala Shanthini Balasubramanian (Creative Producer)@ritishajhambb Ritisha Jhamb (Creative Producer)@tammytsangfilm Tammy Tsang (Creative Producer)@justin.f.lee Justin Lee (Verticals Producer)@stevenslyfe Steven Hu (Verticals Producer)@eunbyblue Eunice Kang (MAMM Admin)@amitdhuga Amit Dhuga (MAMM Equipment Liaison)📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i🎨 Creative Director: @vincewongconnect#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @mamm_vaff

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📄 Get ready for a story folded with heart!🎉Introducing Team Domi Domi Productions#MAMM21 Ten Minute Shorts Finalist🎬Film: Crooked Wings 🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @soniachouu Logline: An origami teacher who was raised to believe love must be earned through perfection, learns from a carefree student that beauty lives in imperfection. Sonia Chou is a Taiwanese filmmaker based in Vancouver and a Vancouver Film School graduate. Passionate about intimate, character-driven stories, she explores family, identity, and self-acceptance through gentle, visually expressive filmmaking.📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @mamm_vaff

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🥁 The drumroll begins now. Are you ready?🎉Introducing Team Long #MAMM21 Ten Minute Shorts Finalist🎬Film: Flourish 🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @li.an.ne.send_halp @chlxris_ @L_guo.on.set Logline: Will Anna make her mark and surpass her sister's legacy? The closing chapter of an ambitious cadet drum major hinges on a specific make-or-break moment - the Provincial Band Competition. Lianne Guo is a writer and director based in Burnaby. As a second-generation Chinese Canadian, she grounds her stories in personal experiences, using filmmaking as a process of self-discovery. Currently, Lianne is studying Film at Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts.📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @mamm_vaff

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💃 Keep an eye out. The dancing might be contagious!🎉Introducing Team Meat Cookie #MAMM21 One Minute Ultra Shorts Finalist🎬Film: Boogie Fever 🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @emmaeng44 Logline: In Boogie Fever, a surreal dark comedy, a young Chinese-Canadian girl just can't stop dancing, and her friends are starting to worry that it's contagious. Emma Eng is a writer and filmmaker based in Vancouver. She holds a BFA in Film Production from UBC. Her dark comedy short Black & Blue won the Student ShortWork Award at the Whistler Film Festival, and her recent short Honey Honey is currently doing its little festival run. She loves her friends, Jeopardy!, and a wine cooler in the park (now that it’s legal).📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @mamm_vaff

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🎭 Are you ready for a role that could cost her identity?🎉Introducing Team YOUTOPIA #MAMM21 Ten Minute Shorts Finalist🎬Film: YOUTOPIA 🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @its_jun____ Logline: A struggling immigrant actress accepts a high-stakes role with no script—only the ""settings"" of a socialite’s deceased daughter. As she reconstructs the dead girl from her own flesh and blood, she discovers that a paradise built on someone else’s parameters is a utopia where her own soul is the first thing to be deleted. SangJun Lee (Jun Lee) is a Vancouver-based 1st Assistant Editor, and Vancouver Film School alumnus. Leveraging his extensive technical expertise, Jun steps into the director's chair for MAMM21. His psychological thriller, YOUTOPIA, dissects the unsettling mechanics of identity erasure and immigrant survival, bringing a cold, clinical suspense and raw emotional tension to the screen.📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @mamm_vaff

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🦷 Hold on to your teeth. Are you ready for this one?🎉Introducing Team MAMMolars #MAMM21 One Minute Ultra Shorts Finalist🎬Film: The Teething Hour 🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @xehlena Logline: As the tooth fairy (now a mouse) comes to collect a child’s lost tooth, it is unexpectedly captured by a mysterious aswang, the true figure behind whose really taking our teeth. Xelena is a Filipino storyteller with a background in student theatre and film productions. Although she typically works in the art department, she has grown to love writing, directing, and producing--especially for genre-bending body horror. If you ask 'why teeth?' for this project, she'll attribute it to having lost too many teeth (all baby, four wisdom, four adult) over her lifetime.📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @mamm_vaff

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🩴 Keep an eye out, because this mother has a plan!🎉Introducing Team Vaanar Sena#MAMM21 One Minute Ultra Shorts Finalist🎬Film: Chappal🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @bulldozer003Logline: A mother takes the help of her friend to get her young adult son in line.Yash is either crafting in a dark edit suite or throwing around heavy weights at his CrossFit gym. Deciding to challenge himself this year, he pitched to direct a MAMM Ultra Short, and here he is, doing his best to entertain everyone with his short.📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @mamm_vaff

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🎬 19 teams. 10 days. Endless possibilities.The teams are ready, the stories are set, and #MAMM21 is about to begin! Follow along as our finalists take on this year’s theme, Reflections & Reinventions, and bring it to life from pitch to script to screen in their own unique ways.Let the filmmaking chaos begin! 🎉🎨 Creative Director: @vincewongconnect#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @mamm_vaff

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🧧Keep an eye out for this red envelope!🎉Introducing Team MEE-lo #MAMM21 Vertical Series Finalist🎬Film: Year After Year 🦸‍♀️Team Leader: @changyujou_ Logline: When a magical red envelope reveals alternate versions of herself and her family, a Taiwanese Canadian writer must confront the lives she could have lived and learn to embrace the one she has. Apple Chang is a Taiwanese filmmaker, producer, and director based in Vancouver. She is passionate about telling heartfelt, character-driven stories that celebrate culture, identity, and the connections that bring people together. With experience across independent films, vertical series, and commercial productions, she hopes to create authentic stories that bridge cultures and help audiences feel seen, understood, and at home.📸 Photographer: @abhi_with_an_i🎨Creative Director: @vincewongconnect#VAFF30 #DiversityInFilm #AsiansInFilm #MAMMily by @mamm_vaff

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