The 2011 Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) will take place on November 3-6, 2011, at the Cineplex Odeon
International Village Cinemas in Vancouver. Over 3,000 audience members are expected to attend the four-day
festival. Among the many films of 2011 VAFF is opening film ALMOST PERFECT, starring Kelly Hu of X-MEN 2 fame and Hong Kong celebrity Edison Chen, who will be in attendance at the opening along with award-winning director Bertha Bay-sa Pan. This romantic comedy, stars Kelly Hu (X-Men 2) as the thirty-something “go-to” daughter in a dysfunctional Asian American family who keeps fixing everybody’s problems but forgets to have a life of her own.

Centerpiece film ASHES is its main actor Ajay Naidu’s directorial debut and he will be in attendance for the screening. It is a cautionary tale of mental illness, greed and the definition of family both real and imagined. A story of two brothers living in the inner city, one descends into the grips of manic-depressive schizoid disorder, while the other, Ashes, absconds from his responsibility and tries to become a wealthy drug dealer. Fraught with contradiction, the story is a meditation on how easy it is to fall through the cracks of today’s health-care system and how we ultimately find grace in the face of suicide.

The closing night presentation SURROGATE VALENTINE, which stars San Francisco musician and rising star Goh
Nakamura, and will be shown on Sunday, November 6 at 7:30 pm. Lead Actress Lynn Chen will be in attendance. In SURROGATE VALENTINE, Goh Nakamura’s life of solitude is disrupted when he is hired to teach TV actor
Danny Turner (Chadd Stoops) how to play guitar for an upcoming film. Together, the two embark on a hilarious West Coast adventure involving live gigs, groupies, shotgun wielding record exes and an unexpected friendship. Along the way, Goh discovers that Danny may be the missing puzzle piece in his life-long chase for Rachel (Lynn Chen), the one that got away.

Other highlights of interest includes loads of short films, Slaying the Dragon Reloaded: Asian Women in Hollywood and Beyond, The Learning, The Potential Wives of Norman Mao, and more.

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2011 Vancouver Asian Film Festival