Center for Asian American Media

Confessions of a Cannes Debutante

Posted June 5, 2009 by ckwon in Events

cannesnymph.jpg Red carpets, celeb spotting, la Croisette...Oh! The glamorous Festival de Cannes! Assistant Director Vicci Ho reports on her maiden voyage to the South of France.
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SFIAAFF WRAPS UP 27TH YEAR

Posted May 3, 2009 by ckwon in Festival, Featured

nosaj-thing_wrap-pic.jpg The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (March 12 – 22, 2009), presented by the Center for Asian American Media, wrapped with an estimated attendance of over 25,000, including over 200 filmmakers, actors and industry guests.
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SFIAAFF AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Posted May 1, 2009 by ckwon in Festival

awardwinnerpicweb1.jpg The Festival is pleased to announce the winners of its two juried competitions for Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature, and the winners of its Comcast Audience Award.
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Fest Forum “MAKE YOUR OWN MOVIE” Videos Online!

Posted April 30, 2009 by Duke in Festival

picture-2.png Check out the videos shot by your fellow festival fans! Using video cameras rented out by CAAM, the festivalgoers became filmmakers, capturing their own perspectives on different people and events at the 2009 SFIAAFF Festival Forum.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - Do you know the way to San Jose?

Posted April 2, 2009 by Luis in Festival

white_rice.jpg My head is swimming. The festival moved down south this weekend to downtown San Jose and talk about an entirely different experience from San Francisco.
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Best Fest Photo Contest Winner Announced!

Posted March 24, 2009 by Luis in Festival

best_photo.jpg Congratulations to EVERETT CHAN, grand prize winner of the Best Fest Photo Contest! Everett wins two roundtrip tickets to Las Vegas, a three night stay at the Wynn Las Vegas and a $500 Macy’s shopping spree, courtesy of Southwest Airlines, Wynn Las Vegas and Macy’s!
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - a few days later after midterm mania, closing night

Posted March 23, 2009 by Luis in Festival

treeless1.jpg I seem to focus heavily on the big pieces (besides FRUIT FLY), opening night's MY DEAR ENEMYand last night's closing feature, TREELESS MOUNTAIN. But anyhow, the story follows two sisters whose mother leaves them behind and they're left to take care of themselves.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - day 3: LIVERPOOL THRASHED MANU 4-1 or documentary day

Posted by Luis in Festival

project_kashmir1.jpg Today's agenda consisted of me running up Post street. It was cold, the wind was blowing into my face, and it was uphill; I felt like I was jogging in place. And more forgetfulness on my point to take any pictures. Geez.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - day 4: in which broken record was on repeat

Posted by Luis in Festival

karma1.jpg Van! You gotta get all those pictures to us somehow! Because I got none! Also, thank you THANK YOU to CAAM for taking care of all our meetings with the filmmakers, covering our cab cost, our food/drinks cost...pretty much everything. You guys are made of many MANY awesome-beans.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - Silence, Love

Posted by Luis in Festival

grandteton.jpg I’m writing this from my uncle-in-law’s house in San Leandro, squeezing in some time with my fourth aunt and her daughter, visiting from Arizona. In the hour after I arrived at San Leandro’s BART station shortly before 10 PM, my aunt called my fifth aunt and her children in Seattle, talked about her health, my fourth aunt’s health, my grandmother’s health, then called my grandfather in Saigon’s Chinatown.
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