PAAFF’19
Best Narrative Feature: Yellow Rose
Best Documentary Feature: Geographies of Kinship
Best Narrative Short: The Chef
Best Documentary Short: Chinese Breakfast
Audience Choice Documentary Feature: Seadrift
Audience Choice Narrative Feature: Song Lang
Vijay Mohan Social Change Award: When We Walk
PAAFF’18
Best Narrative Feature: In the Life of Music
Best Documentary Feature: Call Her Ganda
Vijay Mohan Social Change Award: Call Her Ganda
Best Narrative Short: Besieged
Best Documentary Short: Moving Walls
Best Experimental Short: AFTEREARTH
Audience Choice Narrative Feature: In the Life of Music
Audience Choice Documentary Feature: An American Story: Norman Mineta & His Legacy
Lifetime Achievement Award: Norman Mineta
Rising Star Award: Ellen Wong
PAAFF’17
Best Narrative Feature: The Soul of the Tiger
Best Documentary Feature: Relocation, Arkansas
Vijay Mohan Social Change Award: A Time to Swim
Best Narrative Short: The Orange Story
Best Documentary Short: Im/Perfection
Best Animated Short: Lion Dance
Audience Choice Narrative Feature: Signature Move
Audience Choice Documentary Feature: Island Soldier
PAAFF’16
Best Narrative Feature: The Tiger Hunter
Best Documentary Feature: Tyrus
Best Narrative Short: I Won’t Miss You
Best Documentary Short: Noodle Deli
Vijay Mohan Social Change Award: Dear Thalia
Audience Choice Narrative: The Last Smile
Audience Choice Documentary: Mele Murals
PAAFF’15
Best Narrative Feature: Seoul Searching
Best Documentary Feature: Right Footed
Best Narrative Short: Tadaima
Best Documentary Short: Fall Seven Times Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides
The Vijay Mohan Social Change Award: Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten
Audience Choice Narrative: Seoul Searching
Audience Choice Documentary: Right Footed
Audience Choice Documentary Honorable Mention: Waiting for John
PAAFF’14
Best Narrative Feature Film: Farah Goes Bang
Best Documentary: Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Best Short Film: Hsu Ji Behind the Screen
Audience Choice Narrative Feature: Cicada
Audience Choice Documentary: Ricki’s Promise
Honorable Mention Narrative Feature: Uzumasa Limelight
Honorable Mention Documentary Feature: Kumu Hina
PAAFF’13
Best Narrative Feature Film: The Playback Singer
Best Documentary: Hafu
Best Short Film: Maquette 1:1000
PAAFF Rising Star Award: Brian Yang
Audience Choice Narrative Feature: The Haumana
Audience Choice Documentary: Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey
PAAFF’12
Best Narrative Feature Film: White Frog
Best Documentary: Mr. Cao Goes To Washington
Best Short Film: The Glow (Dir. Bryan Ott)
PAAFF Award For Acting Excellence: BD Wong
Audience Choice Narrative Feature: Shanghai Calling
Audience Choice Documentary: My KoAloha Story
PAAFF’11
Best Narrative Feature Film: Saigon Electric
Best Documentary: Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe
Best Short Film: Digital Antiquities
Emerging Filmmaker Award: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
Audience Choice Narrative Feature: Saigon Electric
Audience Choice Documentary: I Am
PAAFF’10
Best Narrative Feature Film: SF Stories
Best Documentary: The House of Suh
Best Short Film: Frog in the Well
Audience Choice Narrative Feature: Raspberry Magic
Audience Choice Documentary: The House of Suh
PAAFF’09
Best Narrative Feature Film: Why Am I Doing This?
Best Documentary: A Village Called Versailles
Best Short Film: I Don’t Sleep I Dream
Audience Choice Narrative Feature: Formosa Betrayed
Audience Choice Documentary: Operation Babylift
PAAFF’08
Best Feature Film: Santa Mesa
Honorable Mention Feature Film: The Sensei
Best Short Film: Magritte Moment
Honorable Mention Short Film: A Green Mountain in the Drawer