Southern California's largest AP fest, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, is coming right up and the fine folks at Visual Communications have just announced the full lineup. Things kick off May 2 at the DGA with Evan Jackson Leong's Sundance docu Linsanity. Centerpiece presentations include Tadashi Nakamura's Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings and Arvin Chen's latest romcom Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?. Japanese comedy Key of Life by Kenji Uchida will close things out on May 12. "The Laapff has become one of the main stops on the festival circuit for these major award winning festival films," states Abraham Ferrer, Laapff Senior Programmer. "We are honored to showcase these important voices from our filmmakers from around the world bringing their...
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- 4/1/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Tze Chun's "Children of Invention" will open the 25th-anniversary edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, which runs from April 30-May 7.
The fest will screen 181 films and videos from 26 countries at the DGA Theatre, Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatres, Downtown Independent Theatre, the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy and the Aratani/Japan America Theatre.
"We are excited to present the Los Angeles premiere screening of 'Children of Invention' as our opening-night film," said Abraham Ferrer, fest co-director and exhibitions director at Visual Communications, which presents the fest. "We have been following director Chun's career since his short 'Windbreaker' was presented at the 2007 festival."
"Treeless Mountain," directed by So Yong Kim, is slated as the Laapff Centerpiece film, screening May 2 at the DGA Theatre.
Closing out the eight-day fest will be the 2008 Academy Award-winning best foreign-language film "Departures," from director Yojiro Takita, screening May 7 at the Aratani Japan...
The fest will screen 181 films and videos from 26 countries at the DGA Theatre, Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatres, Downtown Independent Theatre, the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy and the Aratani/Japan America Theatre.
"We are excited to present the Los Angeles premiere screening of 'Children of Invention' as our opening-night film," said Abraham Ferrer, fest co-director and exhibitions director at Visual Communications, which presents the fest. "We have been following director Chun's career since his short 'Windbreaker' was presented at the 2007 festival."
"Treeless Mountain," directed by So Yong Kim, is slated as the Laapff Centerpiece film, screening May 2 at the DGA Theatre.
Closing out the eight-day fest will be the 2008 Academy Award-winning best foreign-language film "Departures," from director Yojiro Takita, screening May 7 at the Aratani Japan...
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