Submissions are now open for our 2025 selection

Submissions are now open for our 2025 selection. We invite filmmakers from around the world, and call for films that play with the multiplicity of Asian identities across the globe. This year, we are interested in works on indigeneity and fluidity of Asian cultures, arts, and cosmologies. We hope to seek visual languages that highlight nuances and interdependence with an inter-Asia focus. In addition, we will open a special entry of Border Cinema, welcoming all works directly related to border ethnography, border crossing, or diasporic experience, as well as those that reflect or challenge the polarization and violence caused by geopolitical borders or non-physical borders. We are eager to hear your voice and can’t wait to have you join the party. Submit your work today or before our February 28th deadline!

Sorry Not Sorry is a platform for new and emerging filmmakers to share and re-imagine the meanings of “Asianness”. Founded in 2021 as a volunteer-run and not-for-profit platform, we are dedicated to supporting works from various positions and stories about Asian lived experiences. 

The inaugural Sorry Not Sorry Short Film Project received eighty-two submissions from over twenty nations and regions, running the gamut from stripped-back narratives to wildly experimental documentaries. Our 2022 Selection featured 16 short films in four curated programmes, respectively following the spatio-temporal flows of memories and experiences and the bodies and feelings of Asian womanhood, motherhood, and queerness. The full program included a two-week free streaming in partnership with Asian Pop-up Cinema (Chicago), and a Special Focus screening of Asian and Asian Diasporic Experience in Non-Fiction Shorts in collaboration with 24 Bond Arts Center, featuring four films from the selection. 

The 2025 Sorry Not Sorry Program will be co-curated by Brandy Wang and Kyuri Jeon.

Brandy Wang is a film curator and the founder of Sorry Not Sorry. With her curatorial interests in experimental film, ethnographic & indigenous film, and Asian cinema, she is the Associate Director of Programming at CineCina, the only New-York-based film festival dedicated to presenting Chinese-language cinema. She has worked with various film festivals and organizations, such as the New York Asian Film Festival, Chicago Asian Pop-up Cinema, Film at Japan Society, and Shanghai Queer Film Festival, to curate and promote diverse storytelling and voices through moving images. She received a Master of Arts in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University with a focus on the media representation of identities, particularly on immigration, gender, and sexuality.

Kyuri Jeon is a South Korean artist and filmmaker based in New York. Jeon works with video, essay, drawing, and installation to explore time, vision, and its implications for the future. Through the lens of intersectionality, she questions ongoing transnational discussions about identity, feminism, decolonization, and cultural translation. Jeon’s work has been featured internationally at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin; MassArt Art Museum, Boston; Mimosa House, London; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Artists’ Moving Image Festival, Glasgow; Festival Film Dokumenter, Yogyakarta; Women Make Waves, Taipei; and DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Seoul. She is a recipient of a Contemporary Visual Art Award at AHL-T&W Foundation and an award winner at the Asian Shorts Competition at Seoul International Women’s Film Festival. Jeon holds BFA from Korea National University of Arts and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and Seoul National University. Her previous works, Flesh Witness and Born, Unborn, and Born Again were selected for the 2022 Sorry Not Sorry Program.