DC Asian Pacific American Film

Sponsor the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival! 
Individual or Institutional/Business Opportunities Available

Since 2000, Asian Pacific American Film (APA Film) Inc., a registered nonprofit, taxexempt organization under 501(c)(03) of the Internal Revenue Code, has presented the greater Washington, D.C. region with an annual film festival devoted to film and media arts made by and/or about Americans of Asian Pacific Islander descent and other Asian Diasporic groups from around the world.  As the only film arts festival on the East Coast devoted exclusively to presenting this type of work, we have grown larger each year, filling a need in the community to share and learn about one of the fastest growing minority populations in the United States. 

Supporting a Noble Cause

The primary mission of the Washington, D.C. Asian Pacific American Film Festival (“DC APA Film Festival”) is to familiarize the Washington, D.C. region with the work of Asian Pacific Americans (APA) in film, video, and other related media arts and activities; and to encourage and promote the development of independent APA film and media artists. To fulfill this mission, the DC APA Film Festival presents multiple film programs over the course of ten days, inviting filmmakers and industry professionals to attend the festival for the purposes of leading discussions and/or workshops with local and visiting audiences. 

In doing so, we act as a catalyst for education and action on issues that affect APA communities and individuals. In addition, we offer a free introductory filmmaking workshop for local youths to write, produce, and direct a short film in six weeks. Finally, all of our staff is unpaid, which allows the maximum amount of resources to be used for the purpose and mission of the film festival,including film programming, event planning, fundraising, and marketing. 

If your interested in learning about APA Film's programming during and outside the festival, please contact the appropriate staff and/or board members found on the About Us page.
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By the Numbers

Since our first festival, we have presented 800 short and feature length films or videos in narrative, documentary, animated, and experimental forms, and have held numerous special events such as panel discussions, workshops, receptions, and filmmaker Q&A’s. 

More than 22,000 people in the Washington, D.C. area have been introduced to the voices and talents of Asian Pacific American filmmakers, with the number of attendees and days in the festival growing steadily each year.
  

Docs and Issues

We have also featured numerous documentaries about contemporary issues that have gone on to win awards and received national television broadcast premieres. These include:
  • The LuLu Sessions
  • 9500 Liberty
  • A Village Called Versailles (PBS Independent Lens) 
  • Daughter from Denang (Academy Awards, 2003)

Featured Sponsors

Latest 2012 Festival Partners

Angry Asian Man
Asia Nine
Big Bear
BUILDINGS 
Capitol Hill Hotel
Cobbler Mountain Cellars
Deloitte GWA ABRG 
Dimension FX
Dirty Martini
Eric Schiffer
Erik Yangawa and the Yangawa Family
Hotel Monaco
George C. Lin Fund
Gobbler Mountain Gellars
Katten Muchin Rosenman Law Office
Kollaboration DC
Konrad Ng of Smithsonian APA
Moustache Motions
Natalia Figueiredo
National Museum of the American Indian
NLA, with special thanks to Dustin Huynh
Northside Social, Arlington
PING, with special thanks to Jason Chi
Renaissance Hotels
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program
SNRG 
Sticki Rice
Supercapitalist
Tabaq Bistro
The1491s.com
The Kondabolu Brothers and the Indian Bastards from Hell
The Park
Toki Underground
Tom Beddow of Landmark Theaters
Tom Vick of the Smithsonian Freer
Tomasz Marek of the Goethe Institut
Tony Graves of the US Navy Memorial
VG Kids
Ventana
Wilson Kemp
Zhibo Lai