第18届波士顿（Boston）亚裔美国人电影节今晚开幕 《Isle Child》揭幕、开幕夜门票售罄
波士顿（Boston）——第18届波士顿亚裔美国人电影节（BAAFF）10月15日晚在马萨诸塞州布鲁克莱恩的库利奇角影院（Coolidge Corner Theatre，哈佛街290号）开幕，韩裔美国导演托马斯·珀西·金（Thomas Percy Kim）的剧情长片《Isle Child》担任开幕片，当晚7时放映、门票已售罄，导演与主演伊桑·黄（Ethan Hwang）到场参加映后问答。
《Isle Child》讲述一名韩裔美国被收养者发现一封藏起来的信、得知亲生母亲在韩国病重，在维持现有生活与直面过往之间作出抉择。本届电影节为期11天，至10月25日，全部线下举行；主场地为波士顿市中心华盛顿街559号的爱默生派拉蒙中心（Emerson Paramount Center）。电影节由亚裔美国人资源工作坊（AARW）与ArtsEmerson联合制作，是新英格兰地区规模最大的亚裔美国人电影节。
中心场影片《Jersey Boy》定于10月17日晚6时在派拉蒙中心放映；闭幕片为何晓丹执导的《Montreal, My Beautiful》，10月25日下午4时放映，讲述一位53岁华人移民母亲在蒙特利尔的生活，闭幕场门票同样售罄。华人题材纪录片《Chinatown Cha-Cha》（导演杨圆圆）10月18日下午3时30分放映，记录92岁前夜总会舞者余金玉（Coby Yee）重返舞台、随芳草地歌舞团巡演美国、古巴与中国华人社区。
票价方面，开幕片25美元、闭幕片20美元、长片与短片单元15美元，全节通票150美元。完整节目与购票信息见电影节官网baaff.org。
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.
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