ViFF07 Co-Presents Diasporic Vietnamese films featured in the
25th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival  

The Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF) is proud to collaborate with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) to co-present films by diasporic Vietnamese filmmakers in the 25th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), which will run from March 15-25 in 3 Bay Area cities: San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose.  As a co-presenting organization, we invite all ViFF fans and friends to support this upcoming film festival hosted by CAAM. Based in San Francisco, CAAM is the leading grass-roots organization that has nurtured emerging APA filmmakers and their works.  CAAM has been unwavering in their support of ViFF, from inception to continued growth and maturation.

This year, by officially co-presenting with CAAM, ViFF will be invigorated to advance our shared mission: to promote intercultural understanding through the creation, presentation, preservation and support of media works by and about Asian Pacific Americans (APA).  ViFF is privileged to be partnering with this highly esteemed organization that has paved the way for APA filmmakers and visual artists for over three decades to make ViFF07 the best ever!

In record numbers, this year’s SFIAAFF will be showcasing 5 films by diasporic Vietnamese filmmakers including: the world premiere of Duc Nguyen’s Bolinao 52: A Vietnamese Boat People Documentary (USA/Philippines/Japan 2007) a landmark film that lends voice to end the silence of the horrors faced by millions of boat people; Stephane Gauger’s match-making love story, The Owl and the Sparrow (USA/Vietnam 2007) which touches on place and loneliness while spotlighting the lives of derelict children roaming contemporary Saigon; Doan Hoang’s moving documentary, Oh Saigon (USA 2007) about a Vietnamese woman’s journey to heal her family’s deep, post-1975 wounds; Hung P. Nguyen’s short, Going Home (USA 2006), an intimate recollection of his family’s escape from Vietnam; and lastly, Khoa Do’s Footy Legends (Australia 2006), a poignant sports comedy about overcoming failure for the sake of family through rugby.

For more information about the Center for Asian American Media and SFIAFF, visit www. asianamericanmedia.org and www.asianamericanfilmfestival.org .  
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