Open Call for Films: What is Asia?

Happy Family Night Market is launching their first international OPEN CALL for film and video works to be included in this year’s online program!

They invite all AAPI-identifying filmmakers and artists working with video or moving image to submit films that examine our relationships to place, the feeling of belonging (or not belonging), and the idea of home. They welcome emerging and established artists to apply.

What is Asia?

The word “Asia” was invented by ancient Greeks to distinguish the territories east of their empire. Its original intended meaning is a term of othering and otherness.

2500 years later, we still use the term “Asian,” to describe the inhabitants of this geographic region—in addition to people belonging to a global diaspora—who may or may not share ethnic, linguistic, or cultural heritage, and who perhaps don’t even self-identify as Asian.

What does it even mean to be Asian? What is Asia today, and how has it changed over time?

Application Instructions

SUBMISSIONS
Early Bird Deadline: April 1, 2023 👉 FREE!
Regular Deadline: April 8, 2023 👉 $35
Last Chance Deadline: April 15, 2023 👉 $45

Submissions will be reviewed and selected by a Screening Committee of artist alums from the Happy Family community.

Selections will be announced by May 1, 2023.