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S U N D A Y , M A Y 1
PROGRAM 24, 11:30 a.m.
Directors Guild of America, Theatre Three
REPEAT: Program 3, Friday, April 29, 7:30 p.m., DGA 3

Active Asian (or maybe ActivAsian?)
TRT: 86 minutes

Portraits of the quiet and not-so-quiet activism in and around our communities. The stories, both public and private, have the power to inspire thought and action.

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FULL MOON
(Thailand, 2004) Dir./Scr.: Pongpol Wongsawat, Seri Lachonnabot, Narongrit Prathum
A disillusioned ìArt for Lifeî fan finds himself out of touch with todayís times. Produced as part of the October Youth Short Film Project, FULL MOON paints a picture of a youth culture that has lost its sense of recent Thai history.
Video, 13 minutes, Color, Narrative

  
 


JUST
(South Korea, 2002) Dir./Wtr.: Joon Soo Ha
Through a process of degeneration of both sound and image, JUST endows the iconic American flag with new context and implication. Through the use of different processes such as digital video, computer printout and photocopying, and further combined with degenerated sound, JUST explores how differently an image can be read when put in a specific context.
Video, 6 minutes, Color, Experimental

  
 


DASTAAR: DEFENDING SIKH IDENTITY
(United States, 2004) Dir./Wtr.: Kevin Lee
DASTARR: DEFENDING SIKH IDENTITY presents the struggle of the Sikh American community to overcome the hatred, fear and intolerance they face from fellow Americans due to an essential symbol of the Sikh faith: the dastaar, or turban. Though Sikhs have no relationship with the terrorist networks of the Middle East, they are often mistaken as terrorists due to their wearing turbans. The film explores how media imagery fuels the association of the turban with terroism, leading to widespread discrimination against Sikhs, and also shows the efforts made by the Sikh community through activism, legal action, legislation and education.
Video, 14 minutes, Color, Documentary

  
 


THE BOOK OF JAMES
(Canada, 2002) Dir./Wtr.: Ho Tam
Through a stack of personal journals, the video reconstructs a biography of South Dakota-born and New York City-enlightened artist James Wentzy. Tracing his days starting out as a struggling artist to ending as an AIDS activist, THE BOOK OF JAMES provides an intimate portrait of a neglected hero and unearths a time now forgotten.
Video, 16 minutes, Color, Experimental
  
 


SHANTI
(United States, 2004) Dir./Wtr.: Merlyn M. Bilas
SHANTI vividly recounts the events leading up to the difficult choice Chandra, a Fijian Indian American, makes that transforms her from a servile daughter and wife into a woman who finally finds shanti, peace, in her life. Using interviews, verite footage and family photographs the film describes Chandraís struggles to balance Fijian Indian and American values in an effort to forge her own identity. Now middle-aged, Chandra must find the strength to face the ultimate question, whether to live or die from an aggressively spreading cancer that will release her from a loveless marriage. SHANTI records Chandraís struggle as she grapples with the consequences of her diagnosis. The film takes the audience with Chandra as she gains shattering consciousness of the only choice she can make, one that will finally give her power over a life bound by others needs.
Video, 27 minutes, Color, Documentary

  
 
 

THE WALL
(Thailand, 2004) Dir./Scr.: Doongta Patummasoot, Baramee Smathipunya, Sahaporn Noiyu, Anocha Pisaipan
THE WALL is an experimental documentary with various Thais from all walks of life contributing to graffiti on a wall, with sound laid in from an interview with a well known leftist activist from the 1970s.
Video, 10 minutes, Color, Experimental Documentary

 

 		  
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