New York Asian Film Festival 2010 ended tonight with a big bang: a sold-out show of BLADES OF BLOOD, prizes, bloodbath, drunken revelry and eventually, regret. Here are the details.
We’re proud to announce that the winner of two airplane tickets (courtesy of American Airlines, our official airline sponsor) was present in the audience tonight to celebrate his win. Congratulations to Tyrone Turner – we’ll be in touch soon with details about how to collect your prize. Have some sake on us.
We’re also happy to announce the winners of our Audience Awards:
First place: a tie between GALLANTS and CASTAWAY ON THE MOON!
(director Lee Hay-june collected his prize of a bottle of champagne onstage, sans translator)
Second place: IP MAN 2!
Third place: a three-way tie between LITTLE BIG SOLDIER, CONFESSIONS and ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW!
Fourth place: a tie between LIVE TAPE and CRAZY RACER.
Honorable mention goes to RED CLIFF, which had a great showing in the audience awards, but because it already had a U.S. release, was disqualified from winning!
Congratulations to all the winners, movies, human and otherwise. See you in 2011, maybe?
please come back in 2011!
The drawing for the 2 tickets to Tokyo was rigged- what’s up with that tiny piece of paper?
The name of the winner was written on the back of an Audience Award ballot. All’s fair in giveaway drawings – it should technically have been on a giveaway ballot form, but he wrote his name down and threw it in the box and it’s the first thing I pulled out when I reached into the bag so it’s as fair as any other ballot.
In a giveaway involving several hundred, if not thousand, entries, many people will not win. That’s simple statistics for you. I’m sorry that not winning has made you so upset, but if it’s any consolation there could be only one winner. I think that as time passes and you take up other hobbies and interests you will find that the pain and hurt you are feeling will pass. The seasons will change, you may get a pet or become interested in star gazing. Summer will turn to fall. Rains will come and the great birds of the Northeast will migrate. You will see the colors of the leaves on the trees outside your window turn orange and blaze into their fall glory, and then their branches will be bare as they feel the chill touch of winter.
Many things will happen to occupy your time – you will see delightful and amazing things, some that will stun you, some that will boggle your imagination, some that will make you feel sad – and then, one day, you will look up from the English Muffin you are eating and realize that you haven’t thought about how you didn’t win the giveaway drawing for tickets to Tokyo in a long time. In fact, you won’t remember why you were so angry in the first place. You will look back and feel like that was a different person who went into the comments section and lashed out in such despair and pain. You won’t even recognize your old self. “Why did I care so much?” you will wonder. And you honestly won’t know.
You will feel relieved, freed of a great spiritual burden. Your soul will be lighter.
Your healing will have begun.
Hahaha, that is funny Grady.
I’m just curious what Lee Hay-june said during his acceptance. And what was that conversation the audience member (and impromptu translator) had with him ?
While admitting that only anal fools such as myself give the least little damN, the results technically should be:
First Place: tie between GALLANTS and CASTAWAY ON THE MOON
Third Place: IP MAN 2
Fourth Place: tie between LITTLE BIG SOLDIER, CONFESSIONS, and ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW
Seventh Place: tie between LIVE TAPE and CRAZY RIDER
Grady,
Thanks for the tl;dr (that I eventually read when eating my daily English muffin).
It was odd that you appeared to have been reading off that same tiny piece of paper the entire time you were talking about the audience award stuff, but I guess you wanted to keep the guys name fresh in your mind?
Surprised you used the tiny paper though, don’t you like to keep things scientific?
Also I realize it’s hard to see tone in messages posted on blogs but there was no Capslock or extra long messages in that first I posted so I am not angry or upset but cool story bro.
Congratulations on staging another awesome year of NYAFF! I think I watched more this year than any other year.
I usually dislike ties but I’m satisfied with the shared top prize this year. I am surprised IP MAN 2 won second place though … I mean Twister was entertaining as an over-the-top caricature of a villain but it was a rehash of the first movie and was pretty predictable once the action gets dumped in the boxing ring. I enjoyed it but ranked a bunch of other movies higher, including CRAZY RACER, CONFESSIONS and yes, KUNG FU CHEFS! Yes I am serious and no I am not high
No biggie. I just didn’t want you to feel miffed!
I kept looking at the piece of paper because, to be honest, my mind often goes blank when I’m up there and it can get embarrassing. Also: nervous! No matter how many times I do these intros I get fidgety and anxious!
No idea! Seriously – we totally screwed up not to have a translator there. We had asked the director to come back to the theater because CASTAWAY ON THE MOON was in first place in our super-scientific Audience Award balloting and then the results from that second screening of GALLANTS came in and put it at about .02 ahead of CASTAWAY. So we decided to make it a tie since so many things affect the scoring and we know we’re not math geniuses. Fortunately, it was about .4 between CASTAWAY and IP MAN 2 so it was easy to see that GALLANTS and CASTAWAY were practically neck-and-neck for first!