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Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011
Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
June 23 2011

Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011
Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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Hong Takes New Tack with 'Oki's Movie'
Adam Hartzell
Jun 24, 2011
Hong Sang-soo's latest leaves us with an awkward ambivalence that resonates long after the film is finished.
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SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011
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...
June 23 2011

SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011
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...
June 23, 2011

SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011
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...
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SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011
'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
March 17, 2011

SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011
'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
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SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011
'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
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SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011
'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
March 17, 2011

SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011
'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
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SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011
'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
March 8, 2011

SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Mar 11, 2011
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.
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SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011
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...
March 10, 2011

SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011
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...
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SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011
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...
March 10, 2011

SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011
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...
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SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011
Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
March 10, 2011

SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011
Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
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SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011
Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
February 10, 2011

Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011
A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011
A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011
A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
February 10, 2011

Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011
A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011
A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
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Im Sang-soo Re-hires a Troubling 'Housemaid'
Adam Hartzell
Feb 8, 2011
A South Korean classic is re-envisioned.
News & Blogs

SFGate: 'New Director at Film Festival'
Sep 13, 2010
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.
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Karim Ahmad on ITVS's Forward-Thinking FUTURESTATES
Adam Hartzell
Mar 21, 2010
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.
Festivals

SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour
Adam Hartzell
Mar 19, 2010
A theme that emerged in this year s SFIAFF was the importance of archives in the film world.
Festivals

SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour
Adam Hartzell
Mar 19, 2010
A theme that emerged in this year s SFIAFF was the importance of archives in the film world.
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Borshay Liem's Double Exposure of Korean Adoptions
Michael Fox
Mar 12, 2010
Deann Borshay Liem's 1999 doc First Person Plural recounted her experience as an orphaned Korean adoptee raised in an East Bay suburb.
Festivals

28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Mar 10, 2010
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.
Festivals

28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Mar 10, 2010
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.
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Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity
Judy Stone
Jan 8, 2010
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.
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Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity
Judy Stone
Jan 8, 2010
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.
Festivals

Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF
Matt Sussman
Mar 20, 2009
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.
Festivals

Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF
Matt Sussman
Mar 20, 2009
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.
Festivals

Politics Get Personal in 'Project Kashmir'
Jonathan Kiefer
Mar 19, 2009
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.
Festivals

Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster
Matt Sussman
Mar 11, 2009
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.
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The Buzz on H.P. Mendoza's 'Fruit Fly'
Sura Wood
Mar 9, 2009
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.
Festivals

In Other Words: Pacific Whims
Laura Irvine
May 8, 2008
As an Asian film fan, it's a miracle I keep my day job at this time of year.
Festivals

In Other Words: Pacific Whims
Laura Irvine
May 8, 2008
As an Asian film fan, it's a miracle I keep my day job at this time of year.
Festivals

SFIAAFF's winners
Susan Gerhard
Mar 21, 2008
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.
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SFIAAFF's Taro Goto, Moving On
Sean Uyehara
Mar 19, 2008
Outgoing SFIAAFF's Associate Director reflects on what made him happy during his last year of work.
Festivals

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Mar 18, 2008
SFIAAFF has grown from a niche event to a major international festival - with more than enough voices to justify its unwieldy moniker.
Q & A

Q&A: Brillante Mendoza
Sean Uyehara
Mar 18, 2008
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.
Festivals

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2008
Erika Young
Mar 12, 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.
Festivals

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 19, 2007
Savvy moviegoers outside the target demographic have learned to scout the niche fests' programs for films that premiered to raves at Berlin or Cannes.
Festivals

SF360 Film Culture Confidential: Shhhhhh....
Staff
Apr 28, 2007
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?
Q & A

Grace Lee on the Zombie in You and Me
Miljenko Skoknic
Mar 23, 2007
Director Grace Lee talks about the personal horror movie genre in American Zombie and the ethical dilemmas documentary filmmakers face.
Q & A

Grace Lee on the Zombie in You and Me
Miljenko Skoknic
Mar 23, 2007
Director Grace Lee talks about the personal horror movie genre in American Zombie and the ethical dilemmas documentary filmmakers face.
Festivals

Favorite Artists at the SFIAAFF
Jennifer Young
Mar 21, 2007
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.
Festivals

Favorite Artists at the SFIAAFF
Jennifer Young
Mar 21, 2007
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.
Q & A

Video-Diary Pioneer Spencer Nakasako
Michael Fox
Mar 17, 2007
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.
Festivals

S.F. International Asian American Announces '07 Program
Susan Gerhard
Feb 14, 2007
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.
Festivals

S.F. International Asian American Announces '07 Program
Susan Gerhard
Feb 14, 2007
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.
Q & A

Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family
Susan Gerhard
Sep 19, 2006
Filmmaker Georgia Lee discusses her narrative feature with family member Frances Chang.
Q & A

Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family
Susan Gerhard
Sep 19, 2006
Filmmaker Georgia Lee discusses her narrative feature with family member Frances Chang.
Q & A

Filmmaker Ham Tran Rights an Historical Wrong
Thomas Logoreci
Mar 21, 2006

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

Future Stars of SFIAAFF
Jennifer Young
Mar 17, 2006

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

Transnational Tales at This Year's SFIAAFF
Johnny Ray Huston
Mar 16, 2006
Transnational tales stand out at the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
Festivals

Shigeta's Presence at the SFIAAFF
Chi-Hui Yang
Mar 15, 2006
Six degrees of James Shigeta: an actor ahead of his time sustains a presence in American and Asian American cinema.
Festivals

A Talk with SFIAAFF Directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto
Susan Gerhard
Mar 14, 2006
Asian America everywhere: A talk with San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto.

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