Silk Screen Asian American Film FestivalPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USAMay 12-20 2006Deadline: February 27, 2006
Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival is a multiple-day international film festival. With more than 30 feature films in multiple venues, a Launch Party Gala, workshops and presentations, Silk Screen will be an annual event showcasing Asian made films as well as films made by Asian Americans.
Silk Screen was the brainchild of filmmaker, artist and entrepreneur Harish Saluja. His film, THE JOURNEY (www.newray.com), was shown in more than 30 film festivals, where it won several awards, and is now being shown and distributed by IFC (the Independent Film Channel). Saluja also has a strong business background as a 33-year veteran in the publishing industry and serves as the exec director of TiE Pittsburgh (The Indus Entrepreneurs). In addition, he is a nationally recognized painter and a co-host of Music From India on WDUQ-FM, the longest running radio program of its kind in the U.S.
Submission forms and full information about Silk Screen can be found online at www.silkscreenfestival.org/, or by contacting Harish Saluja, festival director, at 724-969-2565 or info@silkscreenfestival.org.
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