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The 5th Los Angeles Asian Film Festival Golden Diamond Awards ceremony closed, Golden Diamond Awards winners list released

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Dec 19, 2023 – Today, The fifth Los Angeles Asian Film Festival Golden Diamond Awards ceremony successfully ended in Los Angeles. The fifth Los Angeles Asian Film Festival Golden Diamond Awards nominated films include the United States, China, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Canada, Indonesia, Iraq, Thailand, China Taiwan and Hong Kong and other countries and regions, a total of 100 film works were nominated, 20 film works and 2 special awards won the Golden Diamond Award.

“thanked the international film community for participating in the opening and closing ceremonies, film screenings, forum meetings, promotion discussions and the Golden Diamond Awards ceremony of the 5th Asian Film Festival in 2023,” Speaking at the Golden Diamond Awards ceremony today, Holmes Stoner, President of the Los Angeles Asian Film Festival, ” that as an open international film culture and art platform, the Asian Film Festival welcomes cooperation with the film industry of various countries, relying on the business resource background of the American Chamber of International Commerce, the theme of the Los Angeles Asian Film Festival, including industrial parks, content cooperation, derivative development, as well as film production and distribution, education and training, special investment and other diversified all-round cooperation.”

The Golden Diamond Awards winners of the 5th Asian Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2023 are listed below:

Best Feature, “The Vacation Show”, China
Best Foreign Language, “Heaven’s Beat”, China
Best Documentary, “Tranformation”, USA
Best Director, Junli Hadadou, “Allure”, Japan
Best Script, “The Promise Land & Promised Love”, USA
Best Short Film, “Repudiation”, India
Best Animation,” Always & Forverer”,
Best Actor, Rockmond Dunba, “I Envy You”, USA
Best Actress, Eleanor Lee (Singapore), “Her Last Day”, China
Best New Media Film, “Heart Sutra: An Augmented Reality Installation”, USA
Best Documentary Short, “Grandma Sings Arirang”, USA
Best Student Short,” Her Last Day”, China
Best Actress, Eleanor Lee (Singapore), “Her Last Day’, China
Best Child Actor, Branden Lee, “Birthmark of the Sky’, China
Best Student Director, Tenglin Peng, “The Land of Nowhere”, China
Best Producer, Xiao Bai Tarr, “People Power – Stop Texas Bill Targeting Chinese Immigrants”, USA
Best Music, Atsushi “Toya” Tokuya,”The Last Passenger 55min Version”, Japan
Best Cinematography, Nate Cornett,” Above the Clouds”, USA
Best Production Design, Belkis Alvar and Alexis Lebron, “A Confessional”, USA
Best Special Contribution Award, Jiewu Mao, China

The Golden Diamond Awards winners were announced at the 3rd Asian Film Festival awards ceremony in Los Angeles

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LOS ANGELES, CA, DEC 19 – Today, The 3rd Asian Film Festival Golden Diamond Awards ceremony was held in Los Angeles. The event’s red carpet scene was spectacular and the award stage was full of stars. Academy Award winning directors, Hollywood stars, producers, investors and Asian Film Festival ‘s filmmakers are once again gathering together to celebrate.

Holmes Stoner, Chairman of the Asian Film Festival; Leith Enron, Co-Chairwoman of the Asian Film Festival; Inge Sawerthal, President of the American Chamber of International Commerce; Richard Anderson, Oscar winner and Emmy Winner and Mariana Tse, former US Assistant Secretary of Education, As well as Asian Film Festival judges representatives Amber Martinez and Francesca Gioia Drommi and other awards guests on stage at Golden Diamond Awards ceremony to award Best Future, Best Documentary, Best Animation winners, As well as the Best New Director, Best New Actress, Best Child Actor and Best Child Actress award were presented with a Golden Diamond Awards trophy and certificate.

Chinese feature film “Run. Shunzi” Leading actress Xu Yuan won the golden Diamond Award for Best Actress. Xu won much attention for her performance as Zhang Shunzi, the heroine of the movie, which depicts a young amateur athlete who becomes a professional athlete and continues to make miracles.

Jason Quin, The executive chairman of the Asian Film Festival Los Angeles delivered a speech via video on the ceremony today, He announced that the 4th Asian Film Festival was launched at the same time and will be open for application soon.

Following is the full list of the 3rd Golden Diamond Awards winners:

Best Feature: “Winter in LA”, USA
Best Foreign Language Film: “Four Ever Young”, China
Best Documentary: “Song of Little Saigon”, USA
Best Animation: “Nai Nai”, USA
Best Short Film: “Hell in a Handbasket”, Canada
Best Documentary Short: “Believer”, China
Best Student Short: ” Magician: Game of Detective”, China
Best Director: “The Road to Eden”, Kyrgyzstan
Best First Director: “Take it Easy”, USA, Suja Raghuram Manoj
Best Director Student: ” One Afternoon”, China, Yumin Zhang
Best Script: “Like Rainbow”, Iran, Behrad Sahebgharani
Best Cinematography: ”Path To The Sky”, Sammy Su, Canada
Best Production Design: “Bloody Romeo”, Canada, Alina Lapteva
Best Music: “A Paper Plane Ride Home”, USA, Georgia Conrad
Best Actor: “The Road to Eden”, Kyrgyzstan, Bakyt Mukul
Best Actress: “Run! Shunzi”, China, Yuan Xu
Best New Actress: “An Hero”, USA, Tyler Li Stoner
Best Child Actor: “Snails”, USA, Aiden Lu
Best Child Actress: “Where the Light Ends”, China, Zili Zhang

Asian Film Festival Announces Winners of 2020 Golden Diamond Awards

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Nov 21st – Beverly Hills, CA -– The 2 nd Annual Asian Film Festival Los Angeles (AFF ) 2020 announced the winners of the festival’s 2020 film competitions today at the Maybourne Beverly Hills Los Angeles. With the festival following COVID-19 pandemic, the festival did not host a live Golden Diamond Awards ceremony this year, with a virtual awards ceremony. The 2nd Golden Diamond Awards of AFF Los Angeles featured twenty competitive categories: Feature, Foreign Language Film, Documentary, Animation, Short Film, Documentary Short, Student Short Film, Director, Director Short Film, First Director, Director Student, Script, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Music, Actor, Actress, Child Actor and Child Actress.

The Asian Film Festival Los Angeles Chairman Holmes Stoner Said, “This year’s program featured so many wonderful films, and we are grateful to our jurors for selecting our award-winning films, We thank and congratulate all of the filmmakers who shared their films with the festival this year and look forward to great things from each and every one of them.”

“While we are not yet able to celebrate these incredible films at their premieres, we are so proud to celebrate them in partnership with our generous team through our 2020 Golden Diamond Awards virtual ceremony” said Festival Executive Chairman Jason Quin. “ AFF Los Angeles chose to recognize a daring, innovative, entertaining, diverse group of films and filmmakers, and the Festival is pleased to honor all of them with our first ever virtual awards ceremony at this particular moment in 2020.” “”We are also grateful for the involvement and support of filmmakers from dozens of countries and regionesas to join with AFF work together to meet the novel COVID-19 pandemic challenge.”

The 2nd annual Golden DIamond Awards were unlike in our ceremony history in this age of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of filmmakers incuding directors, actors and crew from different countries and regions congratulated AFF via video. The Asian Film Festival Los Angeles 2020 was originally set to take place on Nov 1st -14th, however it will be rescheduled due to the pandemic.

For more information on all of the 2020 Asian Film Festival Los Angels competition winners, visit AFF offical website and check out the full list of winners below:

The list of confirmed winners is as follows：

Best Feature: “Stowaways”, USA
Best Foreign Language Film: “A Touch of Spring”, Canada,
Best Documentary: “Heart of Gold”, Thailand
Best Animation: “ Let’s Eat”, USA
Best Short Film: “Song of the Crickets”, Swtizerland
Best Documentary Short: “Paerntal Guiidance Suggested”, USA
Best Student Short Film: “What We’re Owed”，Australia
Best Director: “Fire on the Ridge”, USA
Best Director Short Film: “À La Carte”, Vietnam
Best First Director: “Magic Kingdom”, Hong Kong China
Best Director Student: Eris Zhao, “Landing”, USA
Best Script: “Whispers In The Wind”, Indonesia
Best Cinematography: “Rendezvous”, Japan
Best Editing: “Navras”, Germany
Best Production Design: “Between”, Czech
Best Music: “Depth of Pyaar”, India
Best Actor: “Father And Son”, China
Best Actress: “Homa And Sisters”, Iran
Best Child Actor: “Catharsis”, Sri Lanka
Best Child Actress: “Bringing Schools To Where There Are None!”, Italy