video i Season 13
#1310 - Original Airdate: Mon, March 24 at 11pm
25th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Featuring a great collection of films and interviews from the festival.
STUTTER (DIR. JANICE AHN)
After being stood up by her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Tasha meets up with a seemingly kind, sensitive fellow, but the mood quickly changes when he reveals himself as delusional and violent. This evocative film follows a woman's struggle with the physical and emotional violence she experiences while looking for love. For more about this film and the filmmaker, visit: janiceahn.com.
Filmmaker Bio
Janice Ahn makes films, photos, paintings and other stuff. She didn't go to the movies as a kid; she watched old flicks on AMC & TNT with her dad, in-between MacGyver after school & Wheel of Fortune at 7 (or 6?), and made dolls from her ex-fashion designer mother's fabric scraps. In college she thought she might be a studio artist, or an activist, or a professor, or a product designer, or an architect. For a while she was convinced that she missed her calling as a dancer. Janice is planning to shoot her NYU Grad Film thesis project in early-ish '08, and has a few other projects in the works as well.
BIG MAGNUM KILLER (DIR. MINA YONEZAWA)
Killing is sooo last year. Jump-roping on the beach, now that's where it's at! Big Magnum Killer is a whimsical and energetic story of two women battling using jump roping and dance to see who will reign supreme at the beach. For more about this film, you can contact the filmmaker at: cappuccino_b37@yahoo.co.jp.
Filmmaker Bio
Mina Yonezawa was born in Shizuoka, Japan in 1982. She is a recent graduate of Nihon University, College of Art Department of Cinema. Her films include Public Bath (2004) which won an award at the First International Water and Film festival in Mexico and Big Magnum Killer which has screened at festivals around the world. Mina currently lives in Tokyo, Japan.
GIRL WITH A WALKMAN (DIR. MELINA LEON)
Saddened that her life is not unfolding the way she planned, the girl with the walkman resorts to drastic measures. Using a wonderfully odd mix of storytelling practices, this film traces a magical path that finds warm simplicity within the difficulties of life. To learn more about this film, you can contact the filmmaker at: melinaleon@gmail.com.
Filmmaker Bio
Melina Leon was born in Perú in 1977. She started in theater at age eight and began making films when she was fourteen. Her work has won various prizes and has screened at major film festivals around the world. Leon is currently finishing her MFA in Film Directing at Columbia University in New York and will soon begin shooting her first feature, Children's Song.