Featuring Korean beauty Kim Hye-soo on the front cover of its program guide, the 6th annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas (AFFD) wrapped August 30th with closing film "Tazza: The High Rollers" ("The War Of Flower"). With the film's lead actress KIM striking a glamorous pose, the AFFD program guide proposes calling the film's director Choi Dong-hoon "Korea's Guy Ritchie".
Running August 23rd to 30th, AFFD featured 25 films of Asian and Asian-American origin. The 'Centerpiece Film' of the festival was Korean-Japanese director SANG Il-lee's "Hula Girls", a heartwarming true story set in a coal mining town in northern Japan. The film was selected by Japan as its submission for the best foreign film category nominations at the Academy Awards.
Award-winning Korean documentary director LEE Ho-sup's "And Thereafter II" screened in a double-bill with "And Thereafter", the first part of his intended trilogy. The films deal with the fates of Korean women who married American G.I'.s. The screening will be accompanied by a documentary short entitled I, Too, Am America by PARK Joon-he, about a Korean adoptee's experience leaving Busan, South Korea at age two to live with her new American family in Idaho.
A Battle of Wits, a Hong Kong – Japan – South Korea co-production starring veteran Korean actor Ahn Seong-gi and Andy Lau among others, also screened at the festival.
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