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Mar 1, 03:45 AM | Author: jane kim | Category: arts
silver screen mayhem
Here are a list of films that I am planning on seeing or want to see at the 24th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Click on the photo for times, location and full description:
SENTENCED HOME tells the heartbreaking story of three young Cambodian American men entangled in an impossible web of wartime politics, cultural identity and civil rights. Formerly incarcerated, they face deportation back to Cambodia, a land they barely know.
A friend of mine represented one of the individuals in this documentary when deportation case were re-opened because new regulations were issued by the Department of Justice after 9/11. An important issue for us to learn more about and one that affected the Cambodian American community in particular.
Kieu was written, directed and produced by a group of kick ass APA women artists. Locus was proud to be a fiscal sponsor and part of this workshoping process. Taking place in San Francisco, an epic Vietnamese national poem is given a twist, with a modern day heroine who works in a Tenderloin massage parlor.
Update: Um, the SF screening has since sold out. I’d like to think because of my blog. But it’s really a testament to the women that worked on this film. Hopefully the festival will add an additional last minute screening. 3/5/06. And they did add one more screening on Monday, March 20th at 10pm! 3/8/06.
The Slanted Screen
Jeff Adachi, Public Defender extraordinaire, San Francisco leader and one of THE MOST RESPECTED elected officials, hands down, is also an avid APA arts supporter ever since I first met him. He produced and wrote this documentary on the history of APA men in film. Check it out! A panel with Daniel Dae Kim and other hot APA stars will follow.
Check out the rest of the films that I want to see in my ISSUES section
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