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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...

  
• 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.

  
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  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.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  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.

  
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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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  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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  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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  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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  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.

  
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  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?

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family

  Susan Gerhard
  Sep 19, 2006

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