SDAFF2018 - 19th San Diego Asian Film Festival
Nov 8-17, 2018 | https://sdaff.org/2018/
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- DirectorSoon-rye YimStarsKim Tae-riRyu Jun-yeolJin Ki-jooA young woman grows tired of life in the city and returns to her hometown in the countryside.
- DirectorLaura NixStarsMaya AjmeraAlmaNuha AnfaresiPassionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world's environmental threats.
- DirectorEric KhooStarsTakumi SaitôSeiko MatsudaMark LeeA young man who is curious about his deceased parents' past takes a food journey to Singapore where he uncovers more than just delicious meals.
- DirectorKuan Yuan LaiPeople from different cultures and ages wait for a train to start a journey through time and space.
- DirectorJohn HsuStarsCtwoPaul Richard BattHan ChangMr. Chang arrives to his 'Spiritual Temple' in the afterworld, a place that represents one's destiny. To solve his marital crisis and financial problems, he summons his guardian- The Thunder God, to modify the temple from the ground up. It turns out to be a big mistake...
- DirectorMacoto TezukaStarsShingo KubotaKan TakagiKyôko TogawaIn 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film.The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
- DirectorSoon-rye YimStarsLee EolPark Won-sangHwang Jung-minMembers of a traveling cover band going nowhere deal with the bitterness of growing up.
- DirectorYen TanStarsCory Michael SmithVirginia MadsenMichael ChiklisA closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
- DirectorChristopher Makoto YogiStarsAlex Zhang HungtaiAkiko MasudaMusician Alex sets off to an island to find his ancestral home with only childhood memories as his navigational system. As he fails to find his home, he reaches a retreat run by a Buddhist woman, Akiko, where he decides to stay for a while. Over a course of few weeks, they share a special spiritual bond out of music and therapeutic techniques.
- DirectorMasa FoxThe Bonin Islanders grew up on a Pacific island with a seesawing history of Japanese and American rule. This is the story of a community torn apart and re-bonded by the past.
- DirectorMarkus NornesTerri SarrisKazuhiro SôdaThe film depicts various kinds of people working in the Big House, the Michigan University's football stadium which can hold more than 100,000 people, as well as the spectators and other people surrounding the Big House. The camera shows the people on "as-is" base, for example marching band practicing before the game and kitchen staff preparing meals for press coming to see the game.
- DirectorH.P. MendozaStarsJon Norman SchneiderPatrick EpinoBrian RiveraBitter Melon is a "home for the holidays" dark comedy where a Filipino-American family plots to kill an abusive member.
- DirectorStephanie Wang-BrealStarsKim AffrontiEliza HookSusan LiuWorking within a broken criminal justice system, a team of rebel heroines work to change the the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted.
- DirectorPatrick WangStarsTyne DalyElisabeth HenryJames MarstersAfter 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple--performance artists from China--come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town.
- DirectorPatrick WangStarsTyne DalyWayne FugateBela QuinesAt The Bread Factory, they rehearse the Greek play, Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater where the town has been invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. There is a new normal in Checkford, if it is even really Checkford any longer.
- DirectorMike WiluanStarsYoshi SudarsoArio BayuPevita PearceTwo brothers named Jamar and Suwo came back to the land of Java to avenge their father, who was a Sultan, after years of exile in America.
- DirectorPJ RavalStarsNaomi FontanosJennifer LaudeJulita LaudeWhen Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.
- DirectorBobby ChoySteve LeeStarsDanny ChoLim Hwa-youngBobby ChoyFiction And Other Realities is the story of Bobby Choy (playing himself), a Korean American residing in New York City, who feels like a stranger in the country he was born in. After his father's death, he starts writing sad songs, though he does not perform very often. Mostly, he just practices in his bathtub, singing softly because of the thin walls of the apartment he shares with his mom. Bobby's friend Billy (Todd Goble), the lead singer of the band Paper Kings, offers him a job as a roadie for the band's upcoming tour, which includes a stop in Seoul, South Korea. Bobby is hesitant at first, as he would be away from his mom and the only society he truly knows. However, after mulling over the pros and cons at his telemarketing job, he decides to take the opportunity and learn about where his parents grew up. There he meets Ina (m(Hwa-Young Im), a young women who performs for fun and is in currently attending grad school.
- DirectorJoanne Mony ParkStarsBorah AhnDanny BallesterClarissa BurnettDuring winter break, a young woman struggles with her sexuality as she's torn between family expectations and her own desires.
- DirectorS. Louisa WeiStarsCaridad AmaranGeorgina Wong GuitierrezFranco YuenThe story focus on Caridad and Georgina, who had learned the art of Cantonese Opera in Havana as a young age and performed as divas for over a decade before their lives were changed by Fidel Castro's revolution.
- DirectorFrank W ChenStarsChien-ming WangNeil AllenBrian CashmanThe first and only Taiwanese player for the New York Yankees, Chien-Ming Wang held many titles: American League Wins Leader, World Series Champion, Olympian, Time 100 Most Influential, and The Pride of Taiwan. He had it all - until a 2008 injury forever altered the course of his career. LATE LIFE: The Chien-Ming Wang Story - named after the late sinking action on his signature pitch - follows the rise and fall of the international icon as he fights his way back into the Major Leagues through endless rehab programs and lengthy stints away from home, carrying the weight of the world on his battered shoulder. A poignant and intimate account of Wang's steadfast quest, LATE LIFE tells the story of a man who is unwilling to give up and unable to let go.
- DirectorDean HamerJoe WilsonHinaleimoana Wong-KaluStarsJoey Joleen MataeleEva BaronHon. Frederica Tuita FilipeThe story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga Leitis, an intrepid group of transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in the South Pacific Kingdom.
- DirectorKulap VilaysackStarsKulap VilaysackScott AukermanCasey WilsonTwenty years after learning about her biological father, Kulap Vilaysack finally asks the questions that will lead her to him.
- DirectorSze-Chit LeeStarsChloe ChanYuen ChauMan-Chung Lam
- DirectorSuzi YoonessiStarsCharlene deGuzmanJohn HawkesMelissa LeoA sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man.