misc It's The Asian-Am Film Fest! Ooooh!!! You know we love the Asian-American Film Festival! We love the feature films by the young ambitious Asian-American directors, we love , we love the KQED-ready documentaries about identity and history, we love
Arts & Entertainment SFIAFF: <em>Air Guitar Nation</em> Long-time readers of SFist will know that we love (love!) all things Air Guitar, both for its obvious silliness and its devotion to the rawk. So when we heard that Air Guitar Nation
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Na Kamalei: The Men Of Hula</i> The moving and inspirational has the distinction of being the first movie to sell out in this year's San Francisco Int'l Asian-American Film Festival -- and the buzz only got better once the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Trouble With Romance</i> (The Jennifer Siebel Movie) The infamous SFist Rita took time away from her remote cave lair and evil blogging minions to hook me up with an advance copy of , starring none other than SFist commenter herself, Jennifer
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Opening Night! On our tightly-packed MUNI ride to the Castro to the opening night festivities for the San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival, we were squooshed next to three thrilled Asian-American film lovers eagerly listing
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Not Just Film But Music Too The SF Asian-American Film Festival hosts not only ten days of the latest and greatest in Asian and Asian-American film, but two nights of current highlights from the Asian-American music scene too: one
Arts & Entertainment Ready For The SFIAAFF? Kwon and Hammer will be kicking off a week and a half of the latest and greatest in Asian and Asian-American film -- a week in SF (at the Castro, 1000 Van Ness,
SF News Jennifer Siebel Online It's our de rigueur day-after-the-scandal post, where we compile all the links we can find about the thing we were all talking about yesterday and turn it into a post for the next
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For the SF Asian-American Film Festival! This is the 25th SF Int'l Asian-American Film Festival, and they're celebrating their silver anniversary this year with a special focus on Chinese-American film, a retrospective of the work of Korean filmmaker Hong
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Americanese</i> Image from Americanese By contributing SFist MiHi Ahn
Arts & Entertainment Beyond Linkin Park Every Asian-American music listener has that list of Asian-American stars they whip out at a moment's notice: Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park, the half-Japanese violinist (of course he's a violinist) from Yellowcard, Karen
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Asian American Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered We're going to be seeing a ton of the movies, as well as hitting parties and other fun stuff like this Friday's and Saturday's Directions in Sound music events (we love Kero One!
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kang Je-gyu SFist contributor MiHi Ahn had an opportunity to correspond with Director Kang through an intrepeter, see their conversation after the jump! By SFist MiHi Ahn, contributing
Arts & Entertainment The 2006 San Francisco Korean American Film Festival We know, we know, the website is damn near impossible to navigate and just plain confusing. We promise the time you devote to wading through it will be worth your while, as there
Arts & Entertainment You Gotta Play To Win To live in the Bay Area is (frequently) to be able to count more than one aspiring filmmaker in one's circle of acquaintance. The next time you're at some dinner party/Zeitgeist get-together/
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: </i>Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents</i> The scene at the Kabuki for the last night of the Asian-American Film Festival was jam-packed, with three movies all starting at the same time, and people dressed to the nines for the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Parties To Which We <i>Were</i> Invited SFist was thrilled to receive an invitation to opening night of the 23rd Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. After the screening of the fantastic , the action turned to the gala
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Saving Face</i> We had barely finished pawing through our wares (Pad Thai mix! Toothpaste! Febreeze! And much, much more!) when event emmcee Emerald Yeh, whom we miss every time we watch the news, took the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: SFist Has You Covered SFist is proud of our coverage of local events, including SF IndieFest, SF Noise Pop, and Cinequest. We're really happy to continue this tradition with our coverage of the San Francisco International Asian