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  Opportunities: Center for Asian American Media Fellowship Program

  Oct 17, 2011

  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/.
  

  
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  'Love Exposure'

  Sep 2, 2011

  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.

  
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  Ninth Street Announces Incubator Participants

  Jul 1, 2011

  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.

  
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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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  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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  Local Makers Line Up Next Shot after SFIFF

  Michael Fox
  May 4, 2009

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

  
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  SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"

  David Winks Gray
  Apr 26, 2009

  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
• First Person
  
  

  Chuck Stephens on the Set of "Citizen Dog"

  Chuck Stephens
  Mar 22, 2006

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

  
• 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.

  
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  Cambodian Americans Exiled in New Film, Sentenced Home

  Susan Gerhard
  Mar 20, 2006

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

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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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  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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  Public Defender Jeff Adachi Adds Filmmaker to Resume

  Susan Gerhard
  Mar 13, 2006

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