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Asian CineVision, Inc (ACV) is a not-for-profit national media arts organization dedicated to the development, promotion and preservation of film and video arts by and about people of Asian descent. Founded in 1976 by Hong Kong cinema legend Tsui Hark (Once Upon a Time in China), Oscar-nominated documentary director Christine Choy (Who Killed Vincent Chin?), Danny Yung, and Peter Chow, ACV began as a media activism organization, which aimed to raise awareness through media training in the local Chinese communities. Members produced a weekly, half-hour show called Chinese Community TV (CCTV), which aired cable-access and covered pressing issues such as housing, gentrification, and health care.

Reflecting the growth of the Asian American media community and its expanding needs over time, ACV amended its certificate of incorporation to specify much larger purposes: "To produce and to exhibit films and video programs about the experience and culture of Asian and Asian American communities," "to provide consultation and technical assistance for artists, cultural and media organizations," "to publish various documentation," and "to organize seminars, conferences and workshops."

For over 30 years, ACV has provided program and services to filmmakers and the Asian American community through the annual Asian American International Film Festival; the National Festival Tour, an international traveling program of our Festival; Asian Cinevisions, a curated program of independent works from Asia and the U.S. that screen in art house theaters across the U.S.; filmmaker professionalization workshops and networking sessions, media literacy initiatives and training workshops, and our print and media archives.

ACV regularly partners with schools, film societies, performing arts and literary groups, social service organizations, film production and distribution companies and other films arts organizations to co-sponsor and co-produce events which bring high-quality film and video by and about people of Asian descent to a wider audience.