Some Film Festivals: SF, Chicago, LA

If you're in the vicinity of San Francisco, Chicago, or Los Angeles, there are a few upcoming Asian American film festivals you could consider going out to support.

(ongoing now until March 21st) San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

(April 2-15) Chicago Asian American Showcase

(April 10-25) Japan Film Festival, Los Angeles

If you have some time, definitely consider going.

Source: Hyphen

Formosa Betrayed

I want to talk about supporting Asian-American artists in a later post, but for now I'm just going to pimp a movie that I have some interest in seeing. They have an official site here.

"Set in Chicago and Taiwan in the 1980s, the story follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent investigating the murder of a Taiwanese professor at a midwestern college. The search for his killers takes the agent to Taiwan where he discovers there is more involved in this murder than he ever anticipated." -blurb from Wikipedia

Taiwan, as you may or may not know, has an interesting status as to whether it's a country since China still believes that it owns Taiwan. This stance has made various countries wary of recognizing Taiwan as a nation because China is the 800lb gorilla in the room and no one wants to piss them off. The film explores some of the more shady happenings to people who are pro-independence for Taiwan.