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The 7th Asian Film Festival Los Angeles Announces Golden Diamond Awards Winners

Golden Diamond Awards Ceremony to Be Held on January 24 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Dec 28 — The Organizing Committee of the 7th Asian Film Festival Los Angeles (AFFLA) has officially announced the winners of this year’s Golden Diamond Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements by Asian and Asian American filmmakers, artists, and cinematic works from around the world.

The Golden Diamond Awards are among the festival’s highest honors, celebrating excellence in filmmaking, storytelling, cultural expression, and artistic innovation. This year’s selections reflect the diversity, depth, and growing global influence of Asian cinema across narrative features, documentaries, animation, short films, student works, and new media.

The award recipients of the Golden Diamond Awards at the 7th Asian Film Festival Los Angeles are as follows:

The 7th Golden Diamond Awards – Winners List
• Best Feature Film
Sae — USA
• Best Foreign Language Film
Harmony — China
• Best Documentary
Knowledge in Light — Italy
• Best Animated Film
Dragon Heart — Japan
• Best Short Film
The Time Permeates on the Street — South Korea
• Best Director
Elvis Hau Chor Fun — When I See You Again — Hong Kong
• Best Actor
Zhang Chenguang —Home, Sweet Home — China
• Best Actress
He Saifei — Home, Sweet Home — China
• Best Script
Kumiho: Legend of the Jades — USA
• Best Screenwriter
Masahiro Ota — S — Japan
• Best Student Short Film
The Sun Rises Again — China
• Best Student Director
Out of Cage — China
• Best Cinematography
Zhao Hongfu, When I See You Again — China
• Best Child Actor
Juncheng Hu — Tropical Fish — China
• Best Child Actress
Sun Yicheng — When I See You Again — Hong Kong
• Best New Media Award
Tomb of Butterflies — China

Golden Diamond Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Liu Xiaoqing, China
• Ding Shaoguang, USA

The jury, composed of distinguished directors, producers, screenwriters, and film scholars from Hollywood and the international film community, praised this year’s winners for their artistic merit, cultural significance, and powerful storytelling that bridges cultures and generations.

The Organizing Committee also announced that the Golden Diamond Awards Ceremony of the 7th Asian Film Festival Los Angeles will be held on January 24, 2026, at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles. Filmmakers, industry professionals, cultural leaders, and media representatives from around the world will gather to celebrate this milestone event honoring Asian cinema.

Since its founding, the Asian Film Festival Los Angeles has been dedicated to promoting Asian films on the global stage and fostering dialogue between Asia, Hollywood, and the international film industry. The Golden Diamond Awards embody the festival’s mission to recognize artistic excellence and amplify diverse voices in global cinema.

For more information about the winners and the awards ceremony, please visit the official website and follow AFFLA on social media.

Official Website: asianfilmfestival.us
Presented by: Asian Film Festival Los Angeles Committee

As a co-organizer of the Los Angeles Asian Film Festival, the Confederation Institute of Education has been providing professional discussion and training exchange opportunities for outstanding young filmmakers, and will continue to offer both offline and online master training courses for young filmmakers from Asian countries.

The 6th Los Angeles Asian Film Festival Golden Diamond Awards Ceremony was grandly held in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Dec 19 – The 6th Asian Film Festival Los Angeles Golden Diamond Awards Ceremony was held in Sheraton Hotel Los Angeles San Gabriel on December 18th. More than 300 filmmakers and celebrities and guests from Hollywood and other countries and regions attended the awards ceremony.

In his speech, Jason Quin, Executive Chairman of the Los Angeles Asian Film Festival, welcomed and thanked the elected officials, diplomatic officials, filmmakers, sponsors, contractors and partners who attended the film festival. At the same time, the 7th Los Angeles Film Festival was officially launched. Nearly 120 films were shortlisted at this film festival, and nearly 80 films and filmmakers were nominated.

The award-winning films came from the United States, China, Hong Kong, Japan, the Iran, India.

After a two-hour red carpet ceremony, they first held a grand awards ceremony, then held a song and dance performance, and the 36th Miss Asia International Global Finals beauty contest. Film producers, directors, actors and beautiful players, celebrities and celebrities, laughter, thunderous applause, jubilation.

The two bilingual masters of Chinese and English, announced the winners of the Golden Diamond Awards at this film festival at the award ceremony, and played trailers of the award-winning film flower and film festival.

The winner list of the 6th Golden Diamond Awards 2024:

BEST FEATURE, Hanky Panky, USA
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE, We are forever, China
BEST DOCUMENTARY, Fallen Treasures, Hong Kong
BEST SHORT FILM, Song of the Conscripts，China
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT, Mad Honey Documentary, Iraq
BEST ANIMATION SHORT, Dancing Dhamaal!, USA
BEST SCRIPT, Sach is Life, USA
BEST DIRECTOR, Nearest Distance, China
BEST MUSIC, Kuch Sapney Apne, Inida
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM, Lamb of Vengeance, China
BEST DIRECTOR STUDENT, Sky is the limit, China, Sheng Liu
BEAT ACTOR, Okamoto, Japan
BEST ACTRESS, Hi Dad, India
BEST CHILD ACTOR, Growing Pains, China
BEST CHILD ACTRESS, Paper Flowers, USA
BEST WRITER, Performing Kaoru’s Funeral, Japan

Asian Film Festival Los Angeles announces the nominees for the 6th Golden Diamond Awards 2024

Los Angeles, November 17th – The Asian Film Festival Los Angeles today announced the nominees for the 6th Golden Diamond Awards 2024, including films and scripts from the United States, Canada, India, Japan, Austria, Germany, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, France, Iraq, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, Iran, as well as mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Earlier, the Asian Film Festival Los Angeles stated at a press conference held on November 2 that the 6th Golden Diamond Awards Ceremony will be held on December 11 at the Sheraton San Gabriel Hotel in Los Angeles. At that time, filmmakers from various countries and regions participating in the festival, special guests, celebrities, representatives of sponsors, producers, directors, actors and award-winning guests from Los Angeles and Hollywood will gather together to celebrate the event.

The 36th Miss Asian International beauty pageant global finalists and winners will also present a splendid visual feast and showcase the magnificent Asian cultural style to guests from all walks of life at the 6th Golden Diamond Awards Ceremony.

The organizer said that tickets for the 6th Golden Diamond Awards Ceremony are now on sale, Welcome to order.

The complete list of nominees for the 6th Golden Diamond Awards of the 36th Asian Film Festival Los Angeles 2024 is as follows:

BEST FEATURE
Brave Girls, India
Hanky Pank, USA
Kuch Sapney Apne, India
Return To Planet Undergroun, Netherlands
Redemption with Life, China

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Performing Kaoru’s Funeral, Japan
4 by 4, India
Flight animal，Sweden
Okamoto，Japan
We are forever, China

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Okhaldhunga, Germany
Saving Walden’s World， USA
CACAO，Japan
Deconstructing Beijing, France
Fallen Treasures, Hong Kong

BEST SHORT FILM
Límites, Spian
Song of the Conscripts，China
Suburban Story ,USA
The Other Moon Goddess, USA
Midsummer Dream. China

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
RETURN TO KAWTHOOLEI: A Refugee Rapper’s Journey to His Homeland in Burma, SA
Mad Honey Documentary, Iraq
Agong, USA
Gierogi Appa, USA
Koroneburg, USA

BEST ANIMATION SHORT
Dancing Dhamaal!, USA
World Naked Bike Tour , Canada
The Pinto Variety Hour, USA
Son & Moon, USA
CHAIN, USA

BEST SCRIPT
Homeless Dogs Never Bite, China
Frank Truman, Iran
First Launch, USA
Sach is LifeUSA
Baby Gladiator, Iran

BEST DIRECTOR
Return To Planet Underground (Part1) , Netherlands
Flight Animal, Sweden
Nearest Distance, China
Growing Pains, China

BEST MUSIC
Kuch Sapney Apne, Inida
Nearest Distance, China
Hi, Dad, India
Aeon Oz, Austria

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Identified, Hong Kong
It is your Turn, China
You Can Never Go Home, USA
Lamb of Vengeance, China
Her Nails, USA

BEST DIRECTOR STUDENT FILM
Sky is the limit, China, Sheng Liu
Pei-an Chen，Blue Birds, Taiwan, Pei-an Chen
Chase, USA, Chao Han
Echo. China, Zhiping Li
A Palm Tree in The Distanc, USA, Moxie Zhang

BEAT ACTOR
Surge, China, Chen Wang Hanfei
Deep Into the Forest , USA, Jack Wang
We are forever, China, Zeawo
A Black Dog By The Reef, China, Zhong Linyu
Okamoto, Japan, Kentarou Tomita

BEST ACTRESS
Brave Girls, India, Rakhi Lohchab
Hi Dad, India, Mrunal Thakur
Suger, China, Jin Shan
Performing Kaoru’s Funeral, Japan, Kano Ichiki
The Story of a Stranded Frog, USA, Lexi Kim

BEST CHILD ACTOR
It is your Turn, China, Chao Yimo, Shu Yiyi, AI Lei, Zhou Yiming
So Long Mom, China, Zhou Chuxi
Growing Pains, China, Zhiquan Yang

BEST CHILD ACTRESS
Paper Flowers, USA, Sylvia Ye
Nearest Distance, China, Ruidong Zhou
Happy Love, USA, Lilyan Luu
Hi, Dad, India, Kiara Khanna
Pari and the Witch, Iran, Jana Karimi

CIE is one of the co-organizers of the Asian Film Festival Los Angeles, and has collaborated with the organizer to provide film-producing, director, and performance short-term master training courses for the AFF film winners and young filmmakers from various countries and regions.

The 6th Golden Diamond Awards Ceremony of Asian Film Festival 2014 will be held on November 18th, at 3:30pm in Sheraton Hotel San Gabriel Los Angeles.

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The Golden Diamond Awards winners were announced at the 3rd Annual Asian Film Festival awards ceremony in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA, Dec 19 – Today, The 3rd Asian Film Festival Golden Diamond Awards ceremony was held in Los Angeles. The event’s red carpet scene was spectacular and the award stage was full of stars. Academy Award winning directors, Hollywood stars, producers, investors and Asian Film Festival ‘s filmmakers are once again gathering together to celebrate.

Holmes Stoner, Chairman of the Asian Film Festival; Leith Enron, Co-Chairwoman of the Asian Film Festival; Inge Sawerthal, President of the American Chamber of International Commerce; Richard Anderson, Oscar winner and Emmy Winner and Mariana Tse, former US Assistant Secretary of Education, As well as Asian Film Festival judges representatives Amber Martinez and Francesca Gioia Drommi and other awards guests on stage at Golden Diamond Awards ceremony to award Best Future, Best Documentary, Best Animation winners, As well as the Best New Director, Best New Actress, Best Child Actor and Best Child Actress award were presented with a Golden Diamond Awards trophy and certificate.

Chinese feature film “Run. Shunzi” Leading actress Xu Yuan won the golden Diamond Award for Best Actress. Xu won much attention for her performance as Zhang Shunzi, the heroine of the movie, which depicts a young amateur athlete who becomes a professional athlete and continues to make miracles.

Jason Quin, The executive chairman of the Asian Film Festival Los Angeles delivered a speech via video on the ceremony today, He announced that the 4th Asian Film Festival was launched at the same time and will be open for application soon.

Following is the full list of the 3rd Golden Diamond Awards winners:

Best Feature: “Winter in LA”, USA
Best Foreign Language Film: “Four Ever Young”, China
Best Documentary: “Song of Little Saigon”, USA
Best Animation: “Nai Nai”, USA
Best Short Film: “Hell in a Handbasket”, Canada
Best Documentary Short: “Believer”, China
Best Student Short: ” Magician: Game of Detective”, China
Best Director: “The Road to Eden”, Kyrgyzstan
Best First Director: “Take it Easy”, USA, Suja Raghuram Manoj
Best Director Student: ” One Afternoon”, China, Yumin Zhang
Best Script: “Like Rainbow”, Iran, Behrad Sahebgharani
Best Cinematography: ”Path To The Sky”, Sammy Su, Canada
Best Production Design: “Bloody Romeo”, Canada, Alina Lapteva
Best Music: “A Paper Plane Ride Home”, USA, Georgia Conrad
Best Actor: “The Road to Eden”, Kyrgyzstan, Bakyt Mukul
Best Actress: “Run! Shunzi”, China, Yuan Xu
Best New Actress: “An Hero”, USA, Tyler Li Stoner
Best Child Actor: “Snails”, USA, Aiden Lu
Best Child Actress: “Where the Light Ends”, China, Zili Zhang