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SFIAAFF STUDENT DELEGATE PROGRAM
Posted November 5, 2009 by Luis in Opportunities, Featured
SFIAAFF is now accepting applications for its annual Student Delegate Program! Apply today for exclusive access to films, meetings with filmmakers, and more!
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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 ‘09 Student Delegate - “Day 2: Good Morning, SFIAAFF”
Posted 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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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Good Karma for Friday the 13th”
Posted March 17, 2009 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 - “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 - “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 - Hello. My name is Lauren Winsor Stenmoe, and I’m a Hapa-Haole
Posted 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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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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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - a few days later after midterm mania, closing night
Posted March 23, 2009 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 - Silence, Love
Posted 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 - 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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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - day 3: LIVERPOOL THRASHED MANU 4-1 or documentary day
Posted 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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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 STUDENT DELEGATE PROGRAM
Posted October 13, 2009 by Luis in Featured
SFIAAFF is now accepting applications for its annual Student Delegate Program! Apply today for exclusive access to films, meetings with filmmakers, and more!
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