This event has been confirmed cancelled due to Coronavirus.
The first “Sneak Screening,” was to be be Disney’s live-action Mulan, on Tuesday, March 24 at 7 pm and due to be released in the United States the following Friday. This event has been confirmed cancelled due to Coronavirus. And the release of Mulan has been confirmed postponed, by Disney on March 12, 2020, due to Coronavirus
Mulan, directed by Niki Caro, is the epic tale of a fearless young woman who risks everything out of love for her family and her country to become one of the greatest warriors China has ever known.
Mulan features a celebrated international cast that includes: Yifei Liu as Mulan; Donnie Yen as Commander Tung; Tzi Ma as Zhou, Jason Scott Lee as Böri Khan; Yoson An as Honghui; Ron Yuan as Sergeant Qiang; with Gong Li as Xianniang and Jet Li as the Emperor. The screenplay is by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Lauren Hynek & Elizabeth Martin, suggested by the narrative poem “The Ballad of Mulan.” The producers are Chris Bender, Jake Weiner and Jason Reed, with Bill Kong, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Coddington and Mario Iscovich serving as executive producers.
The 6th Annual Asian World Film Festival is scheduled for November 4-12, 2020.
About the Asian World Film Festival
The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF), now in its sixth year, brings the very best of Asian World Cinema to Los Angeles in order to draw greater recognition to the region's wealth of filmmakers and strengthen ties between the Asian and Hollywood film industries. Uniting through cross-cultural collaboration, the Festival, champions films from over 50 countries across Asia, spanning from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean to Japan and from Russia, southward to China, India and South-East Asia.
The Festival, founded by Kyrgyz public figure Sadyk Sher-Niyaz, is unique in that it predominantly screens films from the Asian Continent which have been submitted to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Golden Globes for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language respectively. During the past five years the Festival has screened over 80 Oscar submitted films and 60 Golden Globe submissions.
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