Firecracker supports NYAFF 2007 - Starts Tomorrow

Firecracker is delighted to be on board as a media sponsor for this year's New York Asian Film Festival. Kicking off tomorrow, this year's line-up once again confirms the event's place as the best Asian movie event in the Big Apple, with juicy titles such as I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, The Banquet, Exiled, Nightmare Detective and City of Violence among the highlights, and there's an awesome range of special guests and events.

More coming soon but in the meantime over to the guys at Subway Cinema:

Dragon Dynasty and Subway Cinema Present NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2007 June 22 - July 8, 2007 at the IFC Center and Japan Society

The New York Asian Film Festival 2007 thunders back into town with a herd of rowdy movies that are ready to blow your mind and cleanse your soul. A seventeen day orgy of new films from PARK Chan-wook, Johnnie To, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Takashi Miike, this year's festival will introduce you to buffalo-busting action flicks from Thailand, cartilage-cracking gangster films from Korea, and the first gore flick ever made in Pakistan!
SPECIAL GUESTS!

E. J-yong
Director of Dasepo Naughty Girls and curator of Mise-en-scene's Genres Film Festival (MGFF)

Shusuke Kaneko
director of Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name

HAN Jae-rimDirector of The Show Must Go On

Sion Sono
director of Exte

Omar Khan
Director of Hell's Ground (Zibhakhana) and Pakistani film preservationist Pete Tombs and Andy Starke: producers of Hell's Ground and kings of the Mondo Macabro DVD label.

LEE Sang-geun
Director of award-winning short film Do You Wanna Baby?

SPECIAL EVENTS!

The NYAFF has partnered with Korea’'s Mise-en-scene’s Genres Film Festival (MGFF) to bring over their award-winning horror, comedy, melodrama, sci-fi and action short films, selected by MGFF’s committee and jury members, Bong Joon-ho (The Host), Kim Ji-woon (A Bittersweet Life), Ryoo Seung-wan (The City of Violence), Jang Joon-hwan (Save the Green Planet), E. J-yong (Dasepo Naughty Girls), and Park Chan-wook (I'’m a Cyborg, But That's OK). Presented with the generous support of the Korean Cultural Service New York.

From Lahore with Gore
–July 3 sees the New York debut of Hell's Ground, Pakistan’s first splatter film, produced by the good people at the Mondo Macabro DVD label. The director and producers will be at the screening with a clip reel highlighting the wildest Pakistani exploitation movies from the 70’s and 80’s and there will be big hugs for audience members who are suddenly terrified to realize that Pakistan is infested with zombies and hairy monsters.

THE TRAILER!
check out the official festival trailer on YouTube here

THE LINE-UP!
Full write-ups and schedule are available here