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CONGRATULATIONS
TO OUR 2022 FINALISTS:
LLOYD LEE CHOI,
GAURI ADELKAR
AND CHHEANGKEA!
CONGRATU-
LATIONS
TO OUR 2022 FINALISTS:
LLOYD LEE CHOI,
GAURI ADELKAR
AND CHHEANGKEA!

Introduction

The HBO Max Asian Pacific American Visionaries is a short film competition sponsored by HBO Max that provides emerging directors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent the opportunity to showcase their work.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  1. Director and Co-director(s) must be a resident of one of the 50 United States or Washington, D.C.
  2. Films must have been directed by a person of Asian or Pacific Islander descent [i.e., descendants of the people of the Far East, Southeast Asia, Indian subcontinent or Pacific Islands (e.g., China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands and Samoa)].
  3. Director and Co-director(s) must be at least 18 years of age and of the age of majority in their state of residence (i.e., 19 years of age in Alabama and Nebraska; 21 years of age in Mississippi) as of March 1, 2022.
  4. Films must be an original live action narrative (no documentaries or animation).
  5. Videos must be recorded in 16:9 aspect ratio with a minimum resolution of 720p and be encoded in h264 Quicktime MOV format. Potential Winners will be contacted by email with instructions to submit a higher quality version of the Film for festival and broadcast premieres [D-Cinema (DCP, NTSC only) as an .MOV file, conforming to Apple ProRes 422 HQ (1920 x 1080 24p 48kHz)] which must be received by 11:59 PM PST on April 24, 2022.
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competition rules

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