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Topic “Film”

Raising Marginalized Voices

STEVEN OKAZAKI quietly but intensely tells the story of Sakue Shimohira, a victim he interviewed for his new film, White Light/Black Rain.

Shimohira was 10 years old and living in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb fell. "There's a remarkable...

Tomio Geron | Fri, Jun 4th- 1:38am | Issue 12: Transit - Summer 2007, Film

Still Breaking Through

FIVE YEARS AGO, Justin Lin was just another up-and-coming director at the Sundance Film Festival hoping to catch a big break.

With an unknown indie coming-of-age flick called Better Luck Tomorrow and only 10 maxed-out credit cards to show...

Tomio Geron | Fri, Jun 4th- 1:13am | Issue 12: Transit - Summer 2007, Film

Reanimating the Immigrant Experience

LILLIAN CHAN DIDN'T have to look far to find the inspiration for her animated short Jaime Lo, Small and Shy. The film, which follows a 7-year-old girl whose father is sent to work overseas, was largely based on Chan's experiences living in...

Tim Chan | Fri, Jun 4th- 1:37am | Issue 12: Transit - Summer 2007, Film

Making More than Movies

THE CONCEPT SEEMED simple enough: make film about the suffering, neglect and mistreatment of AIDS orphans in China, show film and encourage change. The catch: screen film on Chinese national television. Key terms: censorship, Communist government...

Philana Woo | Fri, Jun 4th- 1:29am | Issue 12: Transit - Summer 2007, Film

Joy Dietrich and Tie a Yellow Ribbon at AAIFF in NYC

Joy_Dietrich-sm.jpg Tie a Yellow Ribbon director Joy Dietrich. Photo by Seng Chen. Joy Dietrich's film...
Rebecca | Sat, Dec 5th- 12:35pm | Film

AAIFF Parties Hearty

I should have known better than to think that I could blog while on vacation in New York City. For one, I enter a time warp (especially when it's hot out, unlike the presently chilly San Francisco). Secondly, becoming the pack mule to my laptop...
Rebecca | Sat, Dec 5th- 12:35pm | Film

Horror in the Philippines, Two Ways

6.jpg This year's SFIAAFF features two creepshows set in the Philippines: Ang Pamana and Blackout. A fellow Hyphen staffer who had lived in the...
Rebecca | Sat, Dec 5th- 12:35pm | Film, SFIAAFF

Where We'll Be: Panels and Workshops at SFIAAFF 07

I'm super excited to go to Saturday's panel discussion, Down and Dirty Pictures. It'll be at the Opera Plaza and starts at 1pm....
Rebecca | Sat, Dec 5th- 12:35pm | Film, SFIAAFF

This One Goes Out to All the Lovers: 'Year of the Fish'

yearoffish.jpg I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats... Buy a ticket to see this one! Year of the Fish is a sweet, sweet contemporary...
Rebecca | Sat, Dec 5th- 12:35pm | Film, SFIAAFF

Two's Company and Three's a Crowd in 'Love for Share'

loveforshare2.jpg Indonesia, where the increasingly conservative Islamist government recently passed a broadly interpreted anti-pornography bill...
Rebecca | Sat, Dec 5th- 12:35pm | Film, SFIAAFF
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