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With titles such as “Beijing Dream”, “The Rib” and “Empty Nest” under his belt, Zhang Wei is one of the most internationally renowned Chinese independent filmmakers. On the occasion of him being the filmmaker in focus in this year's Nyaff, the festival also presents his latest movie, “Redemption with Life”.

Redemption with Life is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

The movie begins with a motorcycle convoy riding in the Tibetan mountains, before a series of flashbacks brings us further and further back in time, examining the life story of three friends. Jianhua is essentially the protagonist, who used to work with Li Gang in an investment company that ended up losing the money from all the investors the former managed to convince to give him their money, and sending him to prison for two years. After he is released, Jianhua once more tries to cooperate with Li Gang,...

Although not a clinical condition, Empty Nest syndrome is a feeling of grief and loneliness parents may feel when their children move out of the family home, such as to live on their own, which does result in negative psychological statuses for parents all over the world. Zhang Wei combines this concept with the growing concern about elderly in China living isolated lives and falling victims to a number of scams and their own loneliness, in order to come up with “Empty Nest”, a movie that is a drama as much as it is a comedy and a crime film.

Empty Nest is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

Based on the novel “The Empty Nest” by Xue Yiwei, the story focuses on Zhao Yimei, an elderly woman who lives alone, nursing the wounds of her husband's betrayal and being estranged from her son, in a series of events...

Beijing, July 24 (Ians) China is all set to send zebrafish to its Tiangong space station to understand how astronauts face bone loss in microgravity, the media reported.

The small fish species will be sent into orbit on Tiangong as part of research into the interaction between fish and microorganisms in a small closed ecosystem, Zhang Wei, assistant to the commander-in-chief of the China Manned Space Engineering Space Application System, was quoted as saying by Global Times.

Previously, many other organisms include space rice “Xiaowei,” arabidopsis thaliana “Xiaonan,” and multiple groups of nematodes have already visited the Chinese space station.

Zebrafish share high homology with human genes, up to 87 per cent.

They were also sent to the Soviet Union’s Salyut 5 space station in 1976 aboard the Soyuz 21 mission.

Soviet cosmonauts conducting experiments with the fish found that the Zebrafish appeared to modify some of their behaviours in response to living in microgravity.

It's ironic that the most iconic social realist films: “Children of Heaven”, “Umberto D.” and “Factory Boss”, often contend with the most impossible situations. In Zhang Wei's near decade-old treatise on China's manufacturing boom, toy manufacturer Lin Dalin (Yao Anlian) fights tooth and nail to complete a final order that might save his factory from financial collapse. In the week that follows, long drawn repercussions of unethical labor, workplace abuse and exploitative business deals mount on him. Bearing a core goal to humanize, “Factory Boss” portrays a flawed system through the very people within it, who must play their part in order to survive.

Factory Boss is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

With the urgency of a thriller, we open to a burning truck. A warning sign from factory workers to our protagonist, Dalin, that he had better pay up months of overdue wages. Traversing from luxury office to downbeat factory,...

Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto to receive the Screen International Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.

The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has revealed the features that will compete for its Uncaged Award and announced that Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto will receive the Screen International Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.

The nine-strong competition for best feature film at the festival, running July 14-30, will include the world premieres of Hong Kong horror Back Home and Chinese films Flaming Cloud and Redemption With Life.

Back Home is a suspense horror that marks the feature directorial debut of Nate Ki and stars Anson...

On July 14, 2023, the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center will kick off the 22nd edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff), with 60+ new and classic titles, a greatly expanded selection of short films, and an exciting slate of celebrated guests from Asia and the diaspora. The festival runs from July 14–30, 2023 at Film at Lincoln Center (Flc), with a special weekend of screenings (July 21–23) at a new venue, the historic Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the birthplace of the motion picture industry in America.

“As filmmakers from Asia continue to earn the lion's share of top awards (and attention) on the international film festival circuit, this year's selection shows that those are still trees hiding a forest of talent,” said Samuel Jamier, executive director of Nyaff and president of the New York Asian Film Foundation. “We are thrilled to offer a platform...

Sometimes you hit a huge high such that any decline is a significant low.

We returned to our regular format on The Blacklist Season 10 Episode 10, where Raymond offered a case, and the team worked to solve it.

There was expected to be a drop in the story's quality after a wild hour on The Blacklist Season 10 Episode 9, but I didn't expect it to feel this disappointing.

With the show closing in on mideason, it stood to reason that they would keep the momentum they had been developing throughout the back half.

Raymond had made a very selfish play that was expected to have some consequences, but he appeared to come out of it unscathed.

Despite being visibly annoyed, Harold just rolled over and ate the scraps being offered, which is so not like him.

He should have offered some pushback unless he was confident that someone's life was in danger.

This The Blacklist review contains spoilers.

The Blacklist Season 10 Episode 4

The 200th episode of The Blacklist advances the series’ exploration of the shades of gray between morality and wickedness while bringing back the emboldened, devil-may-care criminal that fans have been missing ever since the death of Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone). Raymond Reddington (James Spader) may have lived longer than he hoped and have little left to lose, but he makes it clear in “The Hyena” that he is done with fear, pain, and regret. At the moment of his death, Red just wants to feel alive–a melding of opposites that only a man like Red can forge.

Wujing (Chin Han) is not the only criminal with tricks up his sleeve in the quest to amass the wealth and the circle of friends that will be required to put an end to his foe. At the end of the last episode,...

Crossover film and music superstars, Wang Leehom and Jung Ji-hoon are to be honored by the Asia Society next month in Los Angeles. Bob Weis, president of Walt Disney Imagineering and Zhang Wei, president of Alibaba Pictures, will also receive prizes.

The inaugural Game Changer Awards will be presented on Nov. 5 at a gala dinner to follow the U.S.–Asia Entertainment Summit. The summit is in its tenth year. And, where previous editions had concentrated on U.S.-China relations, the event this time has been given a broader focus examining the wider connections between the U.S. and Asia entertainment businesses.

“Lost” star, Daniel Dae Kim, who has broadened his operations from acting to directing and producing through his 3Ad Media company, will be a highlight of the conference section. He will be quizzed by “Late Night” director Nisha Ganatra on The New Hollywood: Have the Asians Arrived?...