Brian Brooks from the Film Society Lincoln Center writes: “The international premiere of Alan Mak and Felix Chong’s crime thriller Overheard 3 will open the New York Asian Film Festival on June 27. The 13th edition of the festival will showcase 60 features, including 20 North American, six U.S., and 11 New York premieres, in addition to filmmaker and celebrity guests from Asia and Australia, announced the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema, in association with the Japan Society, on Friday…
In addition to screenings, NYAFF will honor a host of actors from various Asian countries. Chinese director Jimmy Wang Yu will receive the 2014 Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award. He has set the template for modern kung-fu movies with The Chinese Boxer (1970), and was instrumental in kicking off the swordfighting (wuxia) movie craze with his star-making performance in Chang Cheh’s The One Armed-Swordsman (1967). His recent roles include Peter Chan’s Wu Xia (aka Dragon, 2011) and Chung Mong-hong’s art-house slasher Soul (2013).
This year’s Star Asia Award recipients will include Hong Kong’s award-winning Queen of Comedy and most bankable actress Sandra Ng, who has starred in over 100 movies, as well as Korea’s Sol Kyung-gu, whose career career has spanned both high art (Oasis) and mass-appeal blockbusters (Cold Eyes). The inaugural The Celebrity Award will be presented to Park Joong-hoon, who’s been Korea’s top leading man since the 1980s (Lee Myung-se’s Nowhere to Hide), and has recently taken the director’s chair with Top Star (2013).”
The lineup is massive and can be perused in detail at the Film Society of Lincoln Center website.