Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Foster Child

LAAPFF — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:11:10 GMT

What was true for a Berlin devastated by war in Roberto Rossellini’s GERMANY YEAR ZERO is true for the precariously laid-out squalor of a village in Manila. Brillante Mendoza obviously has a knack for knowing what his audience knows and can gathe

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No Turning Back

LAAPFF — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:46:07 GMT

If I have anything to give readers, let it be a naive candor. The elephant in the room is that USC student films have a reputation for being extremely well-made, but ultimately kind of ‘meh’ on the entertainment scale. A pleasant surprise-e

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The Machine Girl

LAAPFF — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:46:03 GMT

I’ve sat (however fitfully) through feature length experimental montages, and I still had to walk out on THE MACHINE GIRL. I’ve never been a fan of the exploitation genre (I’ve yet to make it through SWEET SWEETBACK’S BADASSSSS

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Confessions of a Salesman

LAAPFF — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:04:54 GMT

Filmmaker Ho Tam invites you to examine the role of Asian masculinity in media in a series of challenging montages fastidiously assembled from stock footage, film clips, newspaper clippings, “found” photos, and even home movies. Like many f

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MAY 2008, Part A: Politics and Park City, Revisited

LAAPFF — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:59:00 GMT

Looking back on last January, the 2

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NO NEED FOR EAR PLUGS

LAAPFF — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:39:11 GMT

Join us for live music and the afterparty for "The Gift of Sound + Vision," the Festival's Music Video program, at Sunset Blvd. hotspot, Libertine. Featuring pe

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Smile

LAAPFF — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:28:54 GMT

Julia Kwan (EVE AND THE FIRE HORSE) takes a microscope to the drama behind the family portrait in her short, SMILE. 1980s Vancouver sets the stage for preening, familial politics, and adolescent angst — with a particular focus on the latter, as o

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VC Filmfest 2007

LAAPFF — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:05:00 GMT

Pictures: 60

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APRIL 2008, PART A: Coming Up For Air

LAAPFF — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:50:00 GMT

As I write this diary entry, we are

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Ocean of Pearls

LAAPFF — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:04:36 GMT

Director: Sarab Neelam, Writer: V. Prasad

When n

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