3-22-05 SDAFF down south... updates

San Diego Asian Film Festival updates!

SDAFF News:
1) SDAFF @ the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

2) 2005 SDAFF Early Entry Deadline: April 1st

3) Attention High Schoolers - two SDAFF competitions for you with $$$!
Deadlines in April and May.

4) New play by Korean American playwright, Kimber Lee: Tuesday, March 22



SDAFF News:

1) SDAFF @ the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival



SDAFF programmers Michael Chen and Charlie Yi recently returned from an action-packed weekend at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. In between spectacular films, critical discourse and celebrity encounters, Michael and Charlie found time to jot down some notes about their experience.

Check out their blogs at http://www.sdaff.org/staff_blog.php.

2) 2005 SDAFF Early Entry Deadline: April 1st

The SDAFF is launching its 2005 Call For Entries, looking for the best in Asian American cinema. We award in the following categories: experimental, animation, music video, short documentary, feature documentary, narrative short and narrative feature. Early entry deadline is April 1. Final deadline is May 14. The festival is September 29 through October 6.

Join hundreds of award-winning filmmakers like Justin Lin, Greg Pak, Grace Lee, Ham Tran and Victor Vu who have screened their work at our film festival. Winners in each category will be honored at a spectacular Gala Awards ceremony on Saturday, October 1, 2005.



3) Attention High Schoolers - two SDAFF competitions for you with $$$! Deadlines in April and May.

Reel Voices Teen Producer Internship
Earn $500 this summer learning documentary filmmaking as part of the Reel Voices Project, a paid summer internship with the San Diego Asian Film Foundation. Reel Voices will offer training to 10 San Diego area high school-aged students, providing them with the opportunity to learn the craft of documentary filmmaking during a 10-week internship where you will plan, write, shoot and produce your own documentary film. No previous filmmaking experience is required. Professional filmmakers and special guest lecturers will be available to answer questions, share their knowledge and offer creative feedback on your work the Reel Voices Project. Applications must be submitted by APRIL 15. For more information on SDAFF's Reel Voices Project, click here.

High School Film Review Competition
The San Diego Asian Film Foundation supports and promotes the diverse Pan Asian experience through the media arts. We are seeking student candidates for our film review competition, in partnership with The San Diego Union-Tribune and the Asian American Journalists Association of San Diego, to promote careers in arts journalism. The winning review will be published in The San Diego Union-Tribune during the week of the S.D. Asian Film Festival, Sept. 29–Oct. 6, 2005. The winning student will receive a $500 scholarship, VIP Pass to the festival and two complimentary seats at the SDAFF Gala Awards Dinner on Friday, Sept. 30, at the Doubletree Hotel Mission Valley. Applications must be submitted by MAY 20. Click here to learn more about SDAFF's High School Film Review Competition.



4) New play by Korean American playwright, Kimber Lee: Tuesday, March 22

Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company, ASIA: The Journal of Culture & Commerce, and The Taiwanese American Community Center present a play reading of THE SQUIRREL WIFE by Kimber Lee on Tuesday, March 22 at 7 PM at The Taiwainese American Community Center (7170 Convoy Court, San Diego, CA 92111). Kirsten Brandt, the director of The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at The Old Globe, will direct.

Touching on themes surrounding transnational adoption, THE SQUIRREL WIFE is set in a small town in southwestern Idaho where SaraLee St.Amor leads an apparently conventional life, while quietly hustling pool on the side -- a fact that she judiciously hides from her fiance, Robert. When a tall and mysteriously well-dressed Korean woman appears in town, SaraLee suddenly finds her carefully constructed life threatened. A uniquely American fairy tale unfolds as SaraLee tries desperately to juggle the needs of the present with the overwhelming and inescapable desires of the past.

For more information, please visit: http://www.moolelo.net/squirrel_wife.html.

Call 619-342-7395 or email tickets@moolelo.net for reservations.