LET’S GO WATCH SOME FILMS
The Center for Asian American Media presents the first ever
Asian Heritage Street Celebration Cinema Showcase
from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
at the Asian Art Museum’s Samsung Hall
on Saturday, May 21.
Admission to the museum will be free all day courtesy of Target and there will also be no cost to watch the films.
The AHSC Cinema Showcase celebrates local Asian American media and media makers. From emerging talent to celebrated media pioneers, this exciting collection of short films and music videos reveal the vibrant Asian American media arts scene here in the Bay Area. Many of these films were hits at the SF International Asian American Film Festival. From comedies to sci fi to social justice documentaries, there is something for everyone!
SCHEDULE
1-2 p.m.
A SERIES OF SERIESED EVENTS
(DIY Music Video Contest People’s Choice Award Winner)
by Secret Sidewalk
Dir. Aireen Almario
9 min.
DROP YOU
(DIY Music Video Contest Judge’s Choice Award Winner)
by Golda & the Guns
Dir. Wernher Von Goff
3 min.
VIRTUES OF CORNED BEEF HASH
Dir. Kerwin Berk
22 min.
Shot almost entirely in SF Japantown, this touching film stars Asian American theater legend, Hiroshi Kashiwagi as an 87-year-old Nisei war veteran who is interviewed by a young reporter researching a story about WWII.
WAHID’S MOBILE BOOKSTORE
Dir. Anjoo Khosla
10 min.
Film shows the young boy’s struggles and hopes through his own candid voice and resilient attitude.
HIP STAR
Dir. Jason Nou
4 min.
When some jeans don’t dry before a big date, a young man accidentally stumbles onto, and embraces, hipsterdom in the Mission district.
EVERYTHING IS BROKEN
by Digital Crafts Night
Dir. H.P. Mendoza
4 min.
A music video by H.P. Mendoza featuring a sweet and melancholic song for the displaced by Digital Crafts Night.
2-3 p.m.
BE MY BABY
Dir. Kevin Wong
17 min.
When Angela returns from the Philippines to help care for her younger sister, she is forced to deal with a past she thought she escaped.
BOYS AND GIRLS
Dir. Chris Tipton-King
4 min.
In this whimsical short, a boy and girl prepare for a big date and go about their grooming rituals with a warm and familiar anxiety.
THE OAK PARK STORY
Co-Dir. Valerie Soe & Russell Jeung
22 min.
Valerie Soe’s newest film documents a contemporary tenant community’s struggle to improve their living conditions in a slumlord-managed apartment complex in East Oakland.
KUNA NI NANANG (My Mother Said)
Dir. Jessica Sison
5 min.
Elena Bautista, 100 years old, reflects on the years of her life.
THE BUS PASS
Dir. Narissa Lee
3 min.
A young woman anxiously tries to plot her first move when the person of her dreams gets on the bus in this amusing San Francisco-based short.
SURROGATE VALENTINE
by Goh Nakamura
Dir. Rich Wong
3 min.
A music video featuring Bay Area Indie rocker Goh Nakamura. The song is from the soundtrack to the Dave Boyle film by same name.
3-3:30 p.m.
PIA
Dir. Tanuj Chopra
18 min.
Can an android have feelings? Can true love be resurrected through technology after death? Both ethereal and frighteningly cold, the future of Chopra’s PIA combines the sterility of science with the persistence of human emotion.
A SERIES OF SERIESED EVENTS
(DIY Music Video Contest People’s Choice Award Winner)
by Secret Sidewalk
Dir. Aireen Almario
9 min.
DROP YOU
(DIY Music Video Contest Judge’s Choice Award Winner)
by Golda & the Guns
Dir. Wernher Von Goff
3 min.
Related links:
http://asianfairsf.com/activities/ahsc-cinema-showcase/
