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THE PARADISE WE ARE LOOKING FOR WORLD PREMIERE: NOVEMBER 7, 2019 This collection of four short documentaries, commissioned on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, maps many such San Diegos— across ethnicity, geography and history. At the helm are four emerging cinematic voices who grew up in San Diego, have studied here, or who have once called it home. Norbert Shieh’s stirring film essay Two Miles East recalls a 2008 University City plane crash that cast a somber shadow over a military city. Quyên Nguyen-Le’s The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard introduces us to the City Heights mortuary workers who help refugee families grieve. Joseph Mangat’s rousing observational piece Bidyoke thrusts us into the electric immigrant space of a karaoke-restaurant in National City. Lastly, in Reunion ‘99, R.J. Lozada interviews former classmates at his 20th high school reunion in the South Bay, and finds that memories, including his own, are not always reliable. Get your tickets now for the Opening Night of the San Diego Asian Film Festival 2019 and the world premiere screening of The Paradise We Are Looking For: https://sdaff.org/2019/movies/paradise-we-are-looking-for/ |
Recent Film Screenings
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Nước (Water/ Homeland)
February 13 2019 @ 6PM SAN DIEGO, CA Little Saigon Stories - Lecture Series April 11 2019 @ 7PM SANTA BARBARA, CA University of California, Santa Barbara May 15, 2019 @ 5PM SANTA CRUZ, CA University of California, Santa Cruz June 2, 2019 @ 1PM SAN FRANCISCO, CA San Francisco Public Library Embracing The Love: LGBTQ Films From Southeast Asia June 29 2019 @ 6PM PARIS, FRANCE Cinéma Le Grand Action Ici Vietnam Festival |
Hoài (Ongoing/Memory)
March 31 2019 @ 1PM LOS ANGELES, CA Queer and Trans Asian Short Films University of Southern California April 15 2019 OAKLAND, CA Bóng Lên Series- Spring & Sing! May 15, 2019 @ 5PM SANTA CRUZ, CA University of California, Santa Cruz June 29, 2019 @ 8:30am to 10:15am AOTEAROA/ NEW ZEALAND NAISA Conference University of Waikato August 15, 2019@ 4:40pm August 17, 2019 @ 3:00pm August 19, 2019 @ 5:10pm DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA NCGLFF @ The Carolina Theatre October 13, 2019 @ 3:30PM ORANGE, CALIFORNIA Viet Film Festival |
