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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - Fruit Fly
Posted March 23, 2009 by Luis in Festival
FRUIT FLY, oh how I could sing your praises for hours! So where do I begin? Okay… so I’ll admit that I’m a bit bias. I’ve been a big fan of H.P. Mendoza’s work since I saw COLMA last year for a class.
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SFIAAFF 2009 Takes Off in San Jose! Opening Night Film + Gala Reception
Posted March 19, 2009 by Luis in Festival
Join us for a night of celebration at the San Jose Museum of Art! Explore one of the most innovative museums in the Bay Area alongside good company and free-flowing food and beverage.
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Q & A with HIGH NOON director Heiward Mak
Posted by Luis in Spotlight, Festival
Vicci Ho caught up with HIGH NOON director Heiward Mak. HIGH NOON had its US Premiere at SFIAAFF on March 18.
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Memoirs of a Superfan, Vol. 4.3: A Short Course in Shorts
Posted by Luis in Festival
Like a fetus in a womb, I’ve been snuggled into my stadium seat in a dark Kabuki theater. Absorbing, reflecting, enjoying. This festival does nurture me and many others, as does its parent organization, CAAM. SFIAAFF brings the life of Asia and Asian America to you through the powerful umbilical cord of film.
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SFIAAFF 09 Best Fest Photo Contest
Posted by Luis in Festival
SFIAAFF is searching for the Best Fest Photo! Submit your best Festival photos and enter to win a trip for two to Las Vegas and a $500 Macy’s shopping spree. Submit submit your best Festival photos and enter to win!
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SFIAAFF 09 Closing Night Screening and Party Tonight!
Posted by Luis in Festival
Complete your festival experience with the Closing Night Screening/Awards Ceremony and Party. After the announcement of the festival's award winners at the plush Sundance Kabuki Cinemas stay to watch the screening of TREELESS MOUNTAIN.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Fruit Fly aka San Francisco: The Musical”
Posted by Luis in Festival
Down at the Castro Theater, the energy emitting from the audience in response to the film was unlike anything I’d ever seen before. In that way, it was almost like an interactive live theater performance. I was laughing so hard I thought I might choke and I certainly wasn’t alone. It was one big inside joke, but everybody was in on it.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Pausing Life”
Posted by Luis in Festival
Biking, walking through San Francisco, and not even in Japantown or Castro, adds to the festival experience. It's an angular city. It's a film in the making.
H.P. Mendoza's FRUIT FLY expresses that musically, wonderfully
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - Hello. My name is Lauren Winsor Stenmoe, and I’m a Hapa-Haole
Posted by Luis in Festival
There were a lot of things I expected to get from being in this amazing program, all of which were met above and beyond anything I could have envisioned. What I never expected to get, was to finally find my racial identity.
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SFIAAFF ‘09 Student Delegate - “Now is the Time to Do”
Posted March 17, 2009 by Luis in Festival
Inspiration was the name of the game today. We started off the day with the Multimedia/Multiracial Panel. It was really refreshing to connect some of the bigger identity issues seen on screen to an everyday agenda about Asian America.
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