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27th annual SFIAAFF Call for Volunteers
Posted January 20, 2009 by Luis in Featured
Be a part of the nation’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films! Every March, over 300 volunteers from around the Bay Area log almost 2,500 hours to make the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) a success! Volunteer benefits include vouchers for festival screenings, the opportunity to meet film industry professionals, and more!
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Locus at KSW and SFIAAFF presents the DO IT YOURSELF Music Video contest
Posted February 5, 2009 by Luis in SFIAAFF 2009, Contest, CAAM Events
Locus at Kearny Street Workshop, in collaboration with the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, team up with local filmmakers and musicians to produce the 2nd annual DIY Premiere and Online Contest - videos will premiere at an event hosted by Locus at Kearny Street Workshop and one will win a spot in SFIAAFF's Music Video Asia.
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BEST FEST PHOTO CONTEST Rules and FAQs
Posted March 2, 2009 by Luis in Uncategorized
BEST FEST PHOTO CONTEST FAQ’s
What is the Best Fest Photo Contest?
The SFIAAFF presents the Best Fest Photo Contest in search of the Best Fest Photo! Submit your Festival photos and enter to win a $500 Macy’s shopping spree and a trip for two to Las Vegas!
Where do we submit and vote on photos?
http://festival.asianamericanmedia.org/2009/
When [...]
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SFIAAFF Award Winners Announced!
Posted March 23, 2009 by ckwon in SFIAAFF 2009, Featured
The Festival is pleased to announce the winners of its two juried competitions for Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature, and the winners of its Comcast Audience Award. The winners are...
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Closing Film TREELESS MOUNTAIN opens in the Bay Area!
Posted May 5, 2009 by Luis in SFIAAFF 2009, CAAM Events, In Theatres
SFIAAFF 09 Closing Film TREELESS MOUNTAIN will open at the San Francisco Landmark Theater, Berkeley Rialto Elmwood and San Jose Camera 3 May 15!
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CAAM Member Screening - THE MOSQUE IN MORGANTOWN
Posted May 19, 2009 by Luis in Film Events, CAAM Events
Crowned Best Documentary at the 27th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, THE MOSQUE IN MORGANTOWN will be screening at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center on Thursday May 21st.
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BIG MAN JAPAN screening in the Bay Area
Posted May 28, 2009 by Luis in Film Events, In Theatres
BIG MAN JAPAN, featured at the SFIAAFF 2009 Festival Forum, will screen for one week in the Bay Area starting May 29th.
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Award Winning Media Fund Films
Posted June 8, 2009 by Luis in Interesting Projects, Featured
Several films we’ve funded have received acceptance into film festivals and a record number have gone on to win awards. To start off with seven CAAM films were screened at our own festival: MOSQUE IN MORGANTOWN, A SONG FOR OURSELVES, FRUITFLY, AHEAD OF THE MAJORITY: THE PATSY MINK STORY, PROJECT KASHMIR and WHATEVER IT TAKES. Congratulations to all the filmmakers!
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OCEANS OF PEARLS Theatrical Release on August 21
Posted August 17, 2009 by Luis in SFIAAFF 2009, Film Events, In Theatres
First-time director Sarab Singh Neelam's award-winning film OCEAN OF PEARLS opens in Bay Area theatres starting August 21st through the 27th.
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WHITE ON RICE opening at AMC Metreon this Friday with David Boyle and Hiroshi Watanabe!
Posted September 15, 2009 by Luis in Film Events, In Theatres
2009 SFIAAFF hit WHITE ON RICE will be opening in Bay Area theatres in September! Don't miss this hilarious comedy, directed by David Boyle and starring Hiroshi Watanabe.
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NEW ON DVD: LOVE OF SIAM
Posted October 15, 2009 by Luis in SFIAAFF 2009
Thailand’s official submission to the 81st Academy Awards, LOVE OF SIAM, is now available on DVD.
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FRUIT FLY with H.P. Mendoza - Film Screening and Q&A
Posted October 27, 2009 by Luis in Film Events
Townsend Center for the Humanities will be screening FRUIT FLY at UC Berkeley on Friday November 6. This free screening will conclude with a question-and-answer discussion with director/composer H.P. MENDOZA.
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Locus at KSW and SFIAAFF presents the DO IT YOURSELF Music Video contest
Posted February 20, 2009 by menriquez in Uncategorized
Locus at Kearny Street Workshop, in collaboration with the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, team up with local filmmakers and musicians to produce the 2nd annual DIY Premiere and Online Contest - videos will premiere at an event hosted by Locus at Kearny Street Workshop and one will win a spot in SFIAAFF's Music Video Asia.
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From Sucker Free City to Watchmen: An Afternoon with Screenwriter Alex Tse
Posted December 31, 1969 by menriquez in Uncategorized
From Sucker Free City to Watchmen: An Afternoon with Screenwriter Alex Tse March 14, 2009
3:30 PM HOTEL KABUKI, San Francisco
One of the most sought-after young screenwriters in Hollywood, San Francisco native Alex Tse has, in just a few short years, risen through its ranks to pen one of the year’s most anticipated films, DC Comics’ [...]
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SFIAAFF 09 Best Fest Photo Contest
Posted March 19, 2009 by Luis in Festival
SFIAAFF is searching for the Best Fest Photo! Submit your best Festival photos and enter to win a trip for two to Las Vegas and a $500 Macy’s shopping spree. Submit submit your best Festival photos and enter to win!
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Directions in Sound Tonight!
Posted March 13, 2009 by Luis in Festival
Friday, March 13, 2009, 9 PM
111 Minna Gallery
From glitch-infused breaks to original bay slaps. Tech-hop fusion to heavy dread bass. True-school heat to broken beats. Dirty disco to freaked-out funk. DIRECTIONS IN SOUND delivers yet another genre-bending showcase of rising stars, further proving that there is no end to the future-forward music blowing up in [...]
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Memoirs of a Superfan, vol. 4.1 : Like honeybee to the honey
Posted by Luis in Festival
The honeybees got the red carpet treatment last night, homing in on the familiar sweetness of the 27th Annual SFIAAFF. From all points of the Bay, from cities across North America and Asia, we tasted and toasted the opening of our favorite event on any continent. Ladies superbly adorned, gentlemen looking the part – the hive was buzzing, and the buzz was good.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - Fanfare
Posted March 16, 2009 by Luis in Festival
Opening night for this year’s SFIAAFF at the Castro Theatre was SPECTACULAR and- as naive as it sounds- unlike any experience that I’ve ever had! It really went by in a flash. After finding my seat in the beautiful, ritzy, busy Castro Theatre amongst my fellow delegates, we chatted anxiously about everything going on around us
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SFIAAFF 2009 Takes Off in San Jose! Opening Night Film + Gala Reception
Posted March 19, 2009 by Luis in Festival
Join us for a night of celebration at the San Jose Museum of Art! Explore one of the most innovative museums in the Bay Area alongside good company and free-flowing food and beverage.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Day 2: Good Morning, SFIAAFF”
Posted March 16, 2009 by Luis in Festival
I'm super new to this film festival ordeal. The only ways I've experienced movies are in regular theaters, on a small screen with a few friends, or as a topic of discussion in a classroom. KARMA CALLING was the kind of screening that really makes the festival setting win my heart.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “day 2: Karma Calling and The Speed of Life”
Posted by Luis in Festival
I think my exhaustion has robbed me of witty headings and my convenient pool of descriptive adjectives. And thank goodness I was an hour early to my personal time-clock because I ended up being just on time for the screening of KARMA CALLING. What I want to know is why not more people came to see this movie. Because, yeah, um, with blatant bias, it rocked.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “What’s in a father? What’s in a man?”
Posted by Luis in Festival
What’s in a father? In the three films that I’ve seen so far this year apart of the film festival, Lee Yoon-Ki’s MY DEAR ENEMY, Sarba Das’ KARMA CALLING, and Ed Radtke’s THE SPEED OF LIFE, that question gnaws at me. My insides, retching. An invisible, depressed father . A desperate father that can’t provide for his family. Fathers who are strangers to their sons and lovers. What does any of this mean?
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Memoirs of a Superfan, Vol. 4.2
Posted March 17, 2009 by Luis in Festival
It’s three days and 20 films since I last wrote (11 shorts and 9 features). And indeed, because of the inclement weather, the main light I’ve been getting has been the reflection from the silver screen.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Day 3″
Posted by Luis in Festival
My day started with hanging out with SPEED OF LIFE director Ed Radke and videographer friend Sevgi Stephenson with the student delegates at a nearby cafe. The conversation wandered all around - how to deal with the confusion of what to do next in life, how it's cool to do what you love
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Good Karma for Friday the 13th”
Posted by Luis in Festival
KARMA CALLING follows the Raj family, an Indian family living in New Jersey. An incredibly light but heart-felt film, it makes you believe that no matter what, everything can and will work out in the end if you just believe. A labor of love by Sarba Das and her entire family, it’s an interesting comparison of India coming to America and America coming to India.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Knee-Jerks, Tear-Jerks”
Posted by Luis in Festival
At one point while watching PROJECT KASHMIR, I thought of the moments Thomas Fowler spends in the South Vietnamese turret in Graham Greene's The Quiet American. Those were the quiet, humanly awkward and poignant moments before the turret was blown apart and Fowler's life saved by Pyle, his rival in romance.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Now is the Time to Do”
Posted by Luis in Festival
Inspiration was the name of the game today. We started off the day with the Multimedia/Multiracial Panel. It was really refreshing to connect some of the bigger identity issues seen on screen to an everyday agenda about Asian America.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Pausing Life”
Posted March 19, 2009 by Luis in Festival
Biking, walking through San Francisco, and not even in Japantown or Castro, adds to the festival experience. It's an angular city. It's a film in the making.
H.P. Mendoza's FRUIT FLY expresses that musically, wonderfully
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Fruit Fly aka San Francisco: The Musical”
Posted by Luis in Festival
Down at the Castro Theater, the energy emitting from the audience in response to the film was unlike anything I’d ever seen before. In that way, it was almost like an interactive live theater performance. I was laughing so hard I thought I might choke and I certainly wasn’t alone. It was one big inside joke, but everybody was in on it.
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Memoirs of a Superfan, Vol. 4.3: A Short Course in Shorts
Posted by Luis in Festival
Like a fetus in a womb, I’ve been snuggled into my stadium seat in a dark Kabuki theater. Absorbing, reflecting, enjoying. This festival does nurture me and many others, as does its parent organization, CAAM. SFIAAFF brings the life of Asia and Asian America to you through the powerful umbilical cord of film.
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Q & A with HIGH NOON director Heiward Mak
Posted by Luis in Spotlight, Festival
Vicci Ho caught up with HIGH NOON director Heiward Mak. HIGH NOON had its US Premiere at SFIAAFF on March 18.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - Silence, Love
Posted March 23, 2009 by Luis in Festival
I’m writing this from my uncle-in-law’s house in San Leandro, squeezing in some time with my fourth aunt and her daughter, visiting from Arizona. In the hour after I arrived at San Leandro’s BART station shortly before 10 PM, my aunt called my fifth aunt and her children in Seattle, talked about her health, my fourth aunt’s health, my grandmother’s health, then called my grandfather in Saigon’s Chinatown.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - a few days later after midterm mania, closing night
Posted by Luis in Festival
I seem to focus heavily on the big pieces (besides FRUIT FLY), opening night's MY DEAR ENEMYand last night's closing feature, TREELESS MOUNTAIN. But anyhow, the story follows two sisters whose mother leaves them behind and they're left to take care of themselves.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - Fruit Fly
Posted by Luis in Festival
FRUIT FLY, oh how I could sing your praises for hours! So where do I begin? Okay… so I’ll admit that I’m a bit bias. I’ve been a big fan of H.P. Mendoza’s work since I saw COLMA last year for a class.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - day 4: in which broken record was on repeat
Posted by Luis in Festival
Van! You gotta get all those pictures to us somehow! Because I got none! Also, thank you THANK YOU to CAAM for taking care of all our meetings with the filmmakers, covering our cab cost, our food/drinks cost...pretty much everything. You guys are made of many MANY awesome-beans.
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Best Fest Photo Contest Winner Announced!
Posted March 24, 2009 by Luis in Festival
Congratulations to EVERETT CHAN, grand prize winner of the Best Fest Photo Contest! Everett wins two roundtrip tickets to Las Vegas, a three night stay at the Wynn Las Vegas and a $500 Macy’s shopping spree, courtesy of Southwest Airlines, Wynn Las Vegas and Macy’s!
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - day 3: LIVERPOOL THRASHED MANU 4-1 or documentary day
Posted March 23, 2009 by Luis in Festival
Today's agenda consisted of me running up Post street. It was cold, the wind was blowing into my face, and it was uphill; I felt like I was jogging in place. And more forgetfulness on my point to take any pictures. Geez.
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Fest Forum “MAKE YOUR OWN MOVIE” Videos Online!
Posted April 30, 2009 by Duke in Festival
Check out the videos shot by your fellow festival fans! Using video cameras rented out by CAAM, the festivalgoers became filmmakers, capturing their own perspectives on different people and events at the 2009 SFIAAFF Festival Forum.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - Do you know the way to San Jose?
Posted April 2, 2009 by Luis in Festival
My head is swimming. The festival moved down south this weekend to downtown San Jose and talk about an entirely different experience from San Francisco.
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SFIAAFF WRAPS UP 27TH YEAR
Posted May 3, 2009 by ckwon in Festival, Featured
The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (March 12 – 22, 2009), presented by the Center for Asian American Media, wrapped with an estimated attendance of over 25,000, including over 200 filmmakers, actors and industry guests.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - Hello. My name is Lauren Winsor Stenmoe, and I’m a Hapa-Haole
Posted March 19, 2009 by Luis in Festival
There were a lot of things I expected to get from being in this amazing program, all of which were met above and beyond anything I could have envisioned. What I never expected to get, was to finally find my racial identity.
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Between Cynicism and Hope by Geraldine Ah-Sue
Posted August 27, 2009 by ckwon in In-Depth
I've been thinking about the idea of suspicion lately. There is a lot to be wary about, and yet the idea of suspicion presents an infinite range of possibility – for the creation of counter-narratives and counter-cultures, for example. I would argue that there must be some slight inkling of suspicion that continues to motivate the work that CAAM does today.
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