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PHILADELPHIA ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL 2020
By exploring the themes of immigration, belonging, identity, and tradition - this year’s festival program features stories and narratives that will inspire new ideas and conversations around the future of Asian American storytelling and the role we play during this time of monumental and exponential change.
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Documentary: The Way I See It
Some of the photo highlights of President Obama include time spent playing in the snow with his daughters and coaching Sasha’s basketball game; to squatting down next to a General in the War Room during the taking down of Osama bin Laden; to reaching out to the son’s of his right hand advisor on Obamacare when she had to be away from her children, putting in 60-80 hour work weeks. You also see the genuine care he gives the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. Just so many photos that show the humanity instilled in our 44th President. And then darkness falls upon the land in 2016 and Souza goes…
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5 QUESTIONS FOR FILMMAKER LESLIE RIVERA ————— Papi Ramirez vs Giant Scorpions
Tinsel & Tine's 5 Questions Series continues with an old friend, Leslie Rivera, Les and I met at a screenwriting class, at the University of the Arts, a ways back, I'm not gonna say how long. We reconnected in the last 2 or 3 years on social media. Les is a Puerto Rico born writer/director/producer who has, since we met, made a number of low budget independent short films and documentaries,
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The Nest
I’m not seeing half the movies I used to see and I still can’t keep up with writing the reviews. Yet, to be fair, as much as I’d like to write a review for every film/movie I see, some I just need to see to be eligible to vote as a Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Member. THE NEST is one of the first films to play in the newly reopened Landmark Ritz 5 Theater in Center City Philadelphia, it opened second week of September. As of 9/30/20 it is still showing. However, I have not yet returned to live screenings, I saw the film as a screener. A narrative feature…
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Kajillionaire
“It is, among many other things, a metaphor for generational dissent, of breaking from tradition and expectation and customs that just don’t work anymore.”– writer/director Miranda July. (Me and You and Everyone We Know, No One Belongs Here More Than You and It Chooses You) none of which I’ve seen, but am now curious to go back and visit. The filmmaker’s “Kajillionaire” description really struck me, because it’s a movie I didn’t expect to identify with in anyway. But when looked at in this light, I realize I do. My mother has gotten to an age where she wants company more often and hates that me and my siblings don’t…
