SANTA MESA will make its next festival appearances in

Chicago Asian American Showcase:

April 24th - 8.15pm at Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State S. Between Randolph and lake S.
http://showcase.faaim.org/FilmFestival/app

Visual Communications Film Festival (Los Angeles):

May 3 - 7pm, 5/3/08 at the Laemmle's Sunset 5, 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood (corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights). Director Ron Morales and Producer Louise Lovegrove will be in attendance for Q/A after the screening.
http://www.vconline.org/festival/program.cfm?program_id=20

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I'm still working in the film industry, but this was a really interesting opportunity that I couldn't pass up.  Hope you can check them out!  And we're always looking for bloggers to add to these sites, so if you're interested, send me a message...

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH4u3ls2ZhI

Synopsis: After the death of his mother, 12-year-old Hector arrives in Manila to live permanently with his grandmother, Lita, a woman whom he has never met. 

http://www.santamesamovie.com

SANTA MESA premiered at the 2008 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, where it won the Narrative Competition Jury Special Prize.  It also just completed a successful screening at the Singapore Film Festival.  Upcoming festival screenings are as follows:

*    LA Visual Communications Film Festival  - May 3rd - 7pm at Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theater - 8000 Sunset Blvd.

More to come!