by Michael Guillen, March 10, 2010 1:02 PM
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for offering this entry to the Twitch readership.] The 28th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) kicks off tomorrow night, March 11 and continues throughout the Bay Area until March 21. I've...
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by Ben Umstead, March 6, 2010 7:00 PM
Kurdish Iranian filmmaker, Bahman Ghobadi is known for his downbeat and timely cultural statements. Films such as A Time For Drunken Horses and Turtles Can Fly focused on the voiceless minorities of a blasted region, and garnered many international accolades....
by Michael Guillen, March 5, 2010 1:35 PM
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for contributing his preview to the Twitch readership.] Of the five documentaries I previewed on DVD screener for this year's San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), my favorite is one doc-purists might...
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by James Marsh, February 28, 2010 5:56 AM
Tickets are now on sale for more than 240 films from over 50 countries that will be screening between 21st March and 6th April and there's some pretty exciting stuff lined up....
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Africa,
Asia,
Book Reviews,
Continental Europe & Russia,
Mexico & South America,
Middle East,
Random Festival News,
South Asia,
UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand,
USA & Canada
by Michael Guillen, February 24, 2010 6:08 PM
I am pleased to announce the publication of Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities, edited by Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung, published by University of St. Andrews Film Studies in conjunction with their Dynamics of World...
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Action,
Animation,
Asia,
Comedy,
Cult,
Documentary,
Drama,
Exploitation,
Horror,
Middle East,
Musical,
Random Festival News,
South Asia,
Thriller,
UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand,
USA & Canada
by Michael Guillen, February 16, 2010 11:04 PM
[Some of you might have noticed the banner ads here on Twitch for San Francisco's International Asian American Film Festival and our thanks go out to Michael Hawley for providing the Twitch readership a preview of the upcoming line-up.]...
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by Michael Guillen, February 3, 2010 2:15 PM
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for offering his preview of SF IndieFest 2010 to the Twitch readership.] The 12th edition of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival--better known as SF IndieFest--takes over the Roxie Theater for two weeks starting...
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by Kurt Halfyard, January 21, 2010 10:29 AM
After all the love on the festival circuit, I am surprised not to see Police, Adjective on the final short list for the Best Foreign Language Film nominees. AMPAS has narrowed it down to nine, with further pruning to...
by Ben Umstead, January 20, 2010 12:45 PM
Israeli filmmaker, Ari Folman made a huge impact in 2008 with his meditative animated war doc WALTZ WITH BASHIR. A film that many feel was robbed at Oscar time.About this time last year Folman announced he was going to adapt...
by Michael Guillen, December 15, 2009 6:44 PM
A FIPRESCI award-winner, an Oscar® candidate and seven U.S. premieres highlight The Global Film Initiative's upcoming Global Lens 2010 film series. As announced late last week, 10 award-winning narrative feature films from Algeria, China, India, Iran, Mexico, Peru, Serbia, South...
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