Oct 16—26, 2025
Boston Asian AmericanFilm Festival
New England's Largest Asian American Film Festival
The Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF) empowers Asian Americans through film by showcasing Asian American experiences and serving as a resource to filmmakers and the Greater Boston Community. BAAFF is a co-production of Asian American Resource Workshop and ArtsEmerson.
Info
Venue
Emerson Paramount Center
OCT 16–OCT 26
On Demand Streaming (Shorts Blocks) OCT 17 @ 7:30 PM – OCT 26 @ 7:30 PM
Viewing window ends OCT 27 @12:00PM
Dates
Oct 16, 2025 - Oct 26, 2025
Special Offers
All-Access Festival Pass: $150
(All 2025 ArtsEmerson Film Programs with exception of Special Presentation, Can I Get a Witness?)
To purchase a festival pass, please contact the Box office directly by phone: (617) 824-8400 or email: tickets@artsemerson.org
Shorts Pass: $65
Watch all 6 Film Shorts Programs
To purchase a Shorts Pass, please click here.
Details
$15 - $25 per film
Virtual Shorts Screenings Oct. 17—26
Boston Asian American Film Festival: Feature Films
Oct. 16 – Coolidge Corner Theater
Oct. 17-19 – Emerson Paramount Center
Oct. 24 – Museum of Science
For shorts descriptions, additional filmmaker or Opening Night information, visit baaff.org
Lukas Dong is an award-winning director based in Los Angeles. Raised in Hong Kong, he discovered his passion for filmmaking by exploring the city’s unique urban nooks with a camera – capturing the subtle details of daily life around him and meeting unlikely characters along the way. As his career evolved, he gravitated toward human-centric content, dedicated to telling the stories of individuals who go above and beyond for their passions. Lukas has directed short films and commercials for leading brands around the world, telling meaningful stories in their most elegant form.
Teb Chaw (Land)
Joua Lee Grande is a filmmaker and community educator with a deep commitment to elevating underrepresented voices. Her work has been featured on WORLD Channel, PBS Digital, and the PBS Short Film Festival. Her short film On All Fronts received an Honorable Mention from CAAMFest’s Loni Ding Award for Social Justice Documentary. This film is part of a television series that won a Silver Anthem Award and received a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2023.
Beauty of Sorrow
Josh Park is a filmmaker located in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds an MFA from San Francisco State University’s School of Cinema. He works as a film educator, currently as a Teaching Artist at Youth Beat in Oakland, and previously at SFSU and SFFILM.
Dear Watsonville
Sandra is a Filipina filmmaker raised in California. Her personal work discusses mixed heritage, diasporic experiences, and how globalization impacts identity. She loves to use mixed media to explore how complex memories and emotions can be communicated through film. In 2020, she was an Armed With A Camera fellow where she created Back to the Source, a film about feeling foreign in one’s home country.
LITTLE BIRD
Oanh-Nhi Nguyen is a filmmaker and activist with a decade of experience working for gender and racial justice. She crafts stories that honor Asian and Asian American women, specifically exploring how intergenerational struggles and triumphs shape the trajectory of their lives. Her narratives focus on the power of women and girls to actualize their dreams and build anew.
Jota Mun (they/them) is the director and producer of “Between Goodbyes”, which had its world premiere at the DMZ International Film Festival, where they won the Emerging Filmmaker Award. The film was selected to screen at DOC NYC, Chicago International Film Festival, Santa Fe International Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award for Feature Documentary, and CinemAsia Film Festival where it won the audience award. As an editor, Jota’s credits include the Emmy-nominated Netflix series “Who Killed Malcolm X?”.
It was while majoring in sociology and film studies at UC Berkeley that director Eric Lin decided to dive into the world of filmmaking. Now, he is best known for his cinematography work on the critically acclaimed THE EXPLODING GIRL (Oscilloscope), THE SOUND OF SILENCE (IFC Films), HOUSE OF SPOILS (Amazon Studios), I SMILE BACK (Broad Green), and HEARTS BEAT LOUD (Gunpowder & Sky), which premiered at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto. Early in his filmmaking days, Lin’s own New York University MFA short documentary, MUSIC PALACE, gained notice and played at influential festivals such as Telluride and New Directors/New Films. ROSEMEAD marks Lin’s feature directorial debut.
Tony Nguyen is an Oakland filmmaker whose work explores the Vietnamese refugee experience (Enforcing the Silence, Giap’s Last Day at the Ironing Board Factory) and the overlooked stories of individuals and communities that make up the fabric of the Town (Fresh Frozen, I See Me).
