Opportunities: Center for Asian American Media Fellowship Program

Furthering CAAM's work to nurture Asian American media professionals and advance the field of Asian American media, the second annual CAAM Fellowship Program will connect young, talented individuals with leading professionals in the field. ELIGIBILITY: Participating fellows will have access to the leading Asian American talent in film, television and digital media. Each fellowship will be individually tailored to best fit the needs of the fellows and advisers. Fellowships will range from fully integrated collaborations to regular feedback on current projects to an ongoing dialogue about professional development. AWARDS: The CAAM Fellowship Program Retreat will allow the mentor-mentee pairs to spend two full days together in a quiet and peaceful environment where they can focus on the mentees' career, whether it is a script being developed or an acting career that needs some guidance. DEADLINE: October 17, 2011. WEBSITE: caamedia.org/filmmaker-resources/fellowship/caam-fellowship-program-2011/.

'Love Exposure'

Center for Asian American Media and the Roxie team up to present Sion Sono's madcap masterpiece 'Love Exposure' for a limited run starting Friday. This nearly four-hour long absurdist experiment in maximalism trumps even the director's previous effort 'Suicide Club.' It's succeeded in Sono's bizarre oeuvre by 'Cold Fish,' which opens mid-month. More info at roxie.com.

Ninth Street Announces Incubator Participants

Press release: The Ninth Street Independent Film Center announced today five new participants for the Center's Media Arts Incubator Program for 2011-2012. "This is a great group of participants," says Skye Christensen, Executive Director of the Ninth Street Independent Film Center. "Each brings a very dynamic project to the Program, and we're really looking forward to what they'll accomplish during their time here." Ninth Street’s Media Arts Incubator Program is designed to nurture socially relevant independent media projects at Ninth Street Independent Film Center. The Incubator Program supports independent filmmakers, start-up film festivals and small media nonprofits through access to workspace and shared resources, such as cross-promotional opportunities, co-productions, affordable meeting or exhibition space and community connections with established media arts partners (Center for Asian American Media, Frameline, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and others). Participants are: Rachel Caplan (CEO) and Daniela Rible (Deputy Director) of the annual SF Green Film Festival; Jennifer Tipton and Cary McQueen Morrow, the directors of Art with Impact, which is a platform for the creation of new media on critical social issues; David Evan Harris, Executive Director of the Global Lives Project, a media arts nonprofit that seeks to collaboratively build a video library of human life experience; Scarlett Shepard is Executive Director of the SF Women’s Film Festival; and J.R. Flemming, director and producer of Guarding Dogs, which is a documentary film with a crowd-sourcing model currently in production that makes the case for adopting a dog instead breeding/buying.

Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'

Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.

Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'

Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.

Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'

Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.

SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home

SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...

SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home

SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...

SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home

SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...

SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies

'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.

SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies

'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.

SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies

'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.

SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies

'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.

SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies

'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.

SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies

'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.

SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival begins March 10 and runs for 11 days, celebrating Opening Night at the Castro Theatre with Andy De Emmony’s 2009 ‘West Is West,’ the sequel to the successful 1999 ‘East Is East.’ About 120 films will play at a variety of venues around San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose. More at festival.asianamericanmedia.org.

SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention

At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...

SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention

At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...

SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention

At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...

SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention

At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...

SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut

Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.

SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut

Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.

SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut

Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.

Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'

A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.

Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'

A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.

Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'

A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.

Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'

A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.

Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'

A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.

Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'

A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.

SFGate: 'New Director at Film Festival'

SF Chronicle: "Masashi Niwano, who most recently was executive director of the Austin Asian American Film Festival in Austin, Texas, has been named festival and exhibitions director for the San Francisco International Asian American Festival." More at SFGate.

SF Jewish Film Festival Lights 30 Candles

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival finds fans beyond its identity-based target audience with a wide array of international films and topics.

SF Jewish Film Festival Lights 30 Candles

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival finds fans beyond its identity-based target audience with a wide array of international films and topics.

SFIFF53: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced

Cash prizes totaling nearly $300,000 for filmmakers highlighted the San Francisco International Film Festival s Golden Gate Awards Wednesday night.

Local Filmmakers In SFIFF Spotlight

Leland Orser saw his first movie at the Alexandria, and Joshua Grannell initially established himself as a S.F. character via his alter ego Peaches Christ.

Christina Yao's solid Empire of Silver

First-time filmmaker Christina Yao is soft-spoken and exceedingly polite, but it s apparent that very little intimidates her.

San Francisco International Film Festival's 53rd Edition

Director of Programming Rachel Rosen and programmers Rod Armstrong, Audrey Chang and Sean Uyehara shared thoughts on 177 films from 46 countries.

Karim Ahmad on ITVS's Forward-Thinking FUTURESTATES

Think of U.S. public television and science fiction or any type of fiction doesn't spring to mind. ITVS aims to change that perception with a series of mini-features.

SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour

A theme that emerged in this year s SFIAFF was the importance of archives in the film world.

SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour

A theme that emerged in this year s SFIAFF was the importance of archives in the film world.

Borshay Liem's Double Exposure of Korean Adoptions

Deann Borshay Liem's 1999 doc First Person Plural recounted her experience as an orphaned Korean adoptee raised in an East Bay suburb.

28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival

The Center for Asian American Media, formerly known as NAATA and founded to nurture Asian American filmmakers as well as counter ethnic stereotypes, has accomplished that and more.

28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival

The Center for Asian American Media, formerly known as NAATA and founded to nurture Asian American filmmakers as well as counter ethnic stereotypes, has accomplished that and more.

'Village' a New Look at New Orleans

S. Leo Chiang knew what it was like to be an outsider in the U.S., so the rebellion of Vietnamese residents in New Orleans was an ideal subject.

Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity

Jennifer Phang has experienced more than enough culture shocks in her life to empathize with the identity challenges of the characters in her debut feature.

Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity

Jennifer Phang has experienced more than enough culture shocks in her life to empathize with the identity challenges of the characters in her debut feature.

Lee, Schamus and Woodstock

The release of Woodstock provides an opportunity to look back on Ang Lee and Schamus's very impressive, diverse screen resume.

Local Makers Line Up Next Shot after SFIFF

The 2009 SFIFF has been a launching pad for the numerous Bay Area filmmaker

SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"

City of Borders, the debut film by Bay Area filmmaker Yun Suh, follows several Palestinian characters seeking refuge at a gay bar. The film testifies to the intolerance that members of the LGBTQ community face in addition to all of the other walls, physical and social, separating people in the region.

Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF

This year, the festival feels like it has truly arrived as an internationally recognized platform for cross-Pacific cinematic exchange, in this disparate cross-section of films from home, abroad and places in between.

Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF

This year, the festival feels like it has truly arrived as an internationally recognized platform for cross-Pacific cinematic exchange, in this disparate cross-section of films from home, abroad and places in between.

Politics Get Personal in 'Project Kashmir'

Co-directors Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel, two American friends with family ties to opposite sides of the conflict, went to Kashmir together to see what they could learn–and what the rest of us could.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster

The retrospective offers fascinating, if not always exemplary, viewing of what could be called a cinema of disaster: characters face the worst, or are living in its aftermath, and like the audience, they are provided with no easy answers.

The Buzz on H.P. Mendoza's 'Fruit Fly'

H.P. Mendoza talks about being a filmmaker in the Bay Area and the opening of his last musical, where he is both director and composer of the film 19 original songs.

Yiyun Li, The Voice of 'A Thousand'

The title story of her Hemingway/Pen Award-winning collection of short stories, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, has been adapted by Wayne Wang.

Ruby Yang on 'A Double Life'

SF360 caught up with Ruby Yang during a recent Bay Area visit to discuss her "latest and most lyrical film yet," A Double Life.

In Other Words: Pacific Whims

As an Asian film fan, it's a miracle I keep my day job at this time of year.

In Other Words: Pacific Whims

As an Asian film fan, it's a miracle I keep my day job at this time of year.

SFIFF51: Renee Tajima- Pe–a's trip down “Calavera Highway'

If making a movie about one’s family could be equated with a fire-walk in August, then making a documentary about one’s partner’s family might be akin to a midsummer sauna. Yet veteran L.A. filmmaker Renee Tajima-Pe–a (Who Killed Vincent Chin?) signed on to a road trip with her husband from L.A. to Washington state to Texas in search of "la verdad" about the father that abandoned Armando’s mother Rosa and his six brothers several decades ago. An intimate and elegantly crafted work of cinema verita, Calavera Highway encompasses universal familial tensions, Mexican-American identity, the responsibilities of fathers (and sons) and the psychic malleability of map-drawn borders.

Tajima-Pe–a, who’s an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz, will receive the Golden Gate Award for long-form television documentary at the S.F. International Film Festival, where Calavera Highway screens three times in early May. Via email, she talked about searching for "Calaveras" hidden in closets and elsewhere.

SFIAAFF's winners

Two top winners at the SFIAAFF focused on breakadancing, an art form taken up with vengeance by Asians, with Koran teams a particularly dominant force.

SFIAAFF's winners

Two top winners at the SFIAAFF focused on breakadancing, an art form taken up with vengeance by Asians, with Koran teams a particularly dominant force.

SFIAAFF's Taro Goto, Moving On

Outgoing SFIAAFF's Associate Director reflects on what made him happy during his last year of work.

SFIAAFF's Taro Goto, Moving On

Outgoing SFIAAFF's Associate Director reflects on what made him happy during his last year of work.

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

SFIAAFF has grown from a niche event to a major international festival - with more than enough voices to justify its unwieldy moniker.

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

SFIAAFF has grown from a niche event to a major international festival - with more than enough voices to justify its unwieldy moniker.

Q&A: Brillante Mendoza

Filipino Director Brillante Mendoza discusses his aesthetic: a basic approach that resists facade and pretense and desires to depict to things as they really are.

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2008

The 26th annual SFIAAFF plays in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, and kicks off with Wayne Wang's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2008

The 26th annual SFIAAFF plays in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, and kicks off with Wayne Wang's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

Sean Uyehara Talks S.F. International Animation Festival

SFFS programmer Sean Uyehara gives some perspective on the shifting dimensions of animated filmmaking.

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Savvy moviegoers outside the target demographic have learned to scout the niche fests' programs for films that premiered to raves at Berlin or Cannes.

SF360 Film Culture Confidential: Shhhhhh....

How did Kink.com make it to the Mission? How did Straight Outta Hunters Point get out of Hunters Point? How'd the Roxie get saved?

Grace Lee on the Zombie in You and Me

Director Grace Lee talks about the personal horror movie genre in American Zombie and the ethical dilemmas documentary filmmakers face.

Grace Lee on the Zombie in You and Me

Director Grace Lee talks about the personal horror movie genre in American Zombie and the ethical dilemmas documentary filmmakers face.

Favorite Artists at the SFIAAFF

SF360.org checked in with actors and filmmakers roaming this year's festival to give props to their favorite Asian American artist, past or present.

Favorite Artists at the SFIAAFF

SF360.org checked in with actors and filmmakers roaming this year's festival to give props to their favorite Asian American artist, past or present.

Video-Diary Pioneer Spencer Nakasako

Spencer Nakasako gets the credit for starting the still-cresting wave of first-person camcorder documentaries back in 1995, but he claims it was largely an accident.

S.F. International Asian American Announces '07 Program

This year's 125 films follow the fest's growth from 13 films in 1982 in the wake of Wayne Wang's Chan is Missing.

S.F. International Asian American Announces '07 Program

This year's 125 films follow the fest's growth from 13 films in 1982 in the wake of Wayne Wang's Chan is Missing.

Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family

Filmmaker Georgia Lee discusses her narrative feature with family member Frances Chang.

Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family

Filmmaker Georgia Lee discusses her narrative feature with family member Frances Chang.

Chuck Stephens on the Set of "Citizen Dog"

Chuck Stephens shares his thoughts, existential and otherwise, on the Bangkok set of Citizen Dog.

Filmmaker Ham Tran Rights an Historical Wrong

Vietnamese American filmmaker Ham Tran rights an historical wrong in his debut feature film on the Vietnam War.

Filmmaker Ham Tran Rights an Historical Wrong

Vietnamese American filmmaker Ham Tran rights an historical wrong in his debut feature film on the Vietnam War.

Cambodian Americans Exiled in New Film, Sentenced Home

A conversation with the filmmakers and one star of "Sentenced Home," about three Cambodian Americans in the process of being exiled.

Future Stars of SFIAAFF

The List: Taro Goto posits who will go on to superstardom from the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

Future Stars of SFIAAFF

The List: Taro Goto posits who will go on to superstardom from the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

Transnational Tales at This Year's SFIAAFF

Transnational tales stand out at the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

Transnational Tales at This Year's SFIAAFF

Transnational tales stand out at the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

Shigeta's Presence at the SFIAAFF

Six degrees of James Shigeta: an actor ahead of his time sustains a presence in American and Asian American cinema.

Shigeta's Presence at the SFIAAFF

Six degrees of James Shigeta: an actor ahead of his time sustains a presence in American and Asian American cinema.

A Talk with SFIAAFF Directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto

Asian America everywhere: A talk with San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto.

A Talk with SFIAAFF Directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto

Asian America everywhere: A talk with San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto.

Public Defender Jeff Adachi Adds Filmmaker to Resume

Jeff Adachi, San Francisco public defender, adds filmmaker to the resume.