San Diego Asian Film Festival 2011

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SDAFF at the Hong Kong International Film Festival

Many of the films at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival we’d seen before — in fact, THE DAY HE ARRIVES played SDAFF ’11, and three films (I WISH, LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE, and HEADSHOT) will be at our Spring Showcase this month. Yet, every waking, non-dim sum hour was spent in movie theaters, or in [...]
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The Diary of a SFIAAFF Virgin

SDAFF Executive Manager, Elgin Aguilar, attends the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival for the very first time! On the screen, we see credits rolling and a static-toned voice in the back, “House lights up.” The sniffling was audible as the audience started to slowly shuffle their way to the exits in the [...]
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SDAFF @ SFIAAFF: An “Old Timer’s” Perspective

SDAFF Artistic and Animation Programmer Sam Chen recaps his experience at the 30th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival! You know you’ve been around a bit too long when you’re asked to blog about the San Francisco Int’l Asian American Film Festival as an “Old Timer.” Having been a SDAFF programmer since 2001, [...]
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JIMJAE’s Love-scapades in SF

SDAFF power couple Jimmy Lee and Eunjae Kim enjoy their free time while at the 30th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Hello! This is Eunjae, but most of you know me as the smarter and prettier half of “JimJae” (Jimmy + Eunjae = JimJae). This past weekend, we had the privilege of attending [...]
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Confessions of a SFIAAFF juror

Ah, the juror tell-all, one of the great genres of American prose. Imagine our culture without such literary monuments as Confessions of a “Rape Cop” Juror or The Private Diary of an O.J. Juror. These are the tales of justice and democracy that make America the fine, scandal-loving, celebrity-idolizing, quick-buck-scavenging nation it so dashingly is. [...]