That's not to say that there's zero Asian representation. In competition this year is Eyad Zahra's The Tacqwacores, a debut feature narrative on the Muslim-Hindu punk rock movement which is getting its own press as of late. Adapted from the novel by Michael Muhammad Knight, the film follows a young Pakistani American man who befriends a group of "misfits" all in the Tacqwacore Muslim punk scene.

In the Shorts program, Samina Akbari's The Visitors follows an Asian/White interracial couple living in a rat-infested dwelling. Other Asian filmmakers appear in the World Competition, including Lim Woo-Seong's Vegetarian, Anusha Rizvi's Peepli Live, and Lixin Fan's Last Train Home.

Good luck to all of the films in competition and may many of you get picked up for distribution so we have some alternatives to the Transformers franchise in 2010.