Formerly the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), now known as the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Film Festival is kicking off on Thursday March 13th and runs through March 23rd. CAAM Fest 2014 will be showcasing films made by Asian/Asian American filmmakers, and films relating to the Asian and Asian American experience, with screenings in theaters located in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland. I was looking through the film program of CAAM Fest this year and a …
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Whitelandia is a documentary about Oregon’s historically institutionalized determination to discriminate and exclude blacks. The 90 minute film is an examination of Oregon’s oppressive practices and how it’s very foundation, since the writing of it’s 1857 constitution, was meant to create a white homeland. In anticipation of it’s statehood, the preliminary Oregon government actually wrote the first of The Black Laws of Oregon aka Jim Crow in 1844. Initially, the law required slave owners to free their slaves, but slaves were …
Lost interviews with famous, and iconic personalities are given the animation treatment in a PBS short film series “Blank on Blank.” Here we have animated lost interviews with legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix (audio only, there was a video, but was pull down due to some copyright issue…), singer Barry White, comedian Carol Burnett, jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, and actor Heath Ledger. Jimi Hendrix on The Experience – Blank on Blank Barry White on Making Love – Blank on Blank Carol Burnett on Finding …
South By Southwest (SXSW) festival kicks off this Friday March 7th and goes on til March 16th. Here is a short documentary profiling the the founder of SXSW Ronald Swenson and the development of the festival, from a Dailymotion series called “That Was Me”. In the sea of conservative red state Texas, the city of Austin (where SXSW is hosted) stands out as a liberal, and progressive beacon. Ronald Swenson, SXSW staff, artists, and event collaborators hosting SXSW in Austin …
Hopefully this will answer why this man hasn’t been spitting, putting out his fashion line or, last but oh so certainly not least, putting out an Outkast album. Sigh. The Jimi Hendrix biopic film, All Is By My Side is scheduled to premier at this month’s SXSW. …
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