Edison Chen and Kelly Hu star in the festival opener, Almost Perfect. -Photograph by: Submitted, The Province
By Glen Schaefer,
The Province November 3, 2011
ON SCREEN
Vancouver Asian Film Festival
Where: International Village Cinemas, third floor, 88 W. Pender St.
When: Tonight until Sunday, check vaff. org for full schedule.
Tickets: Opening or closing $15, evenings $10, matinees $8, seniors/students $7 at the door
The Vancouver Asian Film Festival turns 15 this year, with a schedule that includes New York romance, unexpected Bollywood stardom, hard Cambodian homecomings and a Vancouver ghost story.
Kelly Hu stars in the festival opener Almost Perfect (7 p.m. Thursday) as a Manhattan career woman torn between the demands of her parents and adult siblings, and the prospect of a new romance. Writer-director Bertha Bay-Sa Pan will be at the festival with the movie.
Big in Bollywood (7: 15 p.m. Friday) is a documentary about American-born actor Omi Vaidya who awkwardly gets back to his South Asian cultural roots when he's cast as the star of a Bollywood comedy that becomes an instant box-office hit, turning Vaidya into an overnight Indian celebrity.
The documentary Resident Aliens (1: 30 p.m. Saturday) follows three former gang members deported from the U.S. for their crimes. Their families all survived the Cambodian genocide and the three all grew up in the U.S. The documentary watches as the three try to reinvent their lives in a country they don't know.
The House (5 p.m. Sunday) is a Vancouverfilmed ghost story by director Desiree Lim, starring Natalie Sky as a money manager who retreats to an old house where she starts writing a book, and finds out she's not alone. Zak Santiago, Emilie Ullerup and Alex Zahara cotar.
The festival wraps up Sunday with a screening of the San Francisco-filmed comedy Surrogate Valentine (7: 30 p.m.), starring musician Goh Nakamura as a musician hired to teach a TV actor (Chadd Stoops) how to play guitar for an upcoming film. The two embark upon a road trip that helps the musician figure out how to win the girl of his dreams (Lynn Chen, who will be in Vancouver for the festival).
Meanwhile five short films are vying for VAFF's annual Canadian short-film prize: Brendan Uegama's Second World War internment-camp drama Henry's Glasses, Kathleen Jayme's kids-on the-run story Liz, Jason Karman's wordless romance Square Dance Story, Mingu Kim's music documentary A Drummer's Passion, and Yota Konishi's Commercial Drive character piece Sweet.
Drive character piece Sweet. gschaefer@theprovince.com
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By Glen Schaefer,
The Province November 3, 2011
ON SCREEN
Vancouver Asian Film Festival
Where: International Village Cinemas, third floor, 88 W. Pender St.
When: Tonight until Sunday, check vaff. org for full schedule.
Tickets: Opening or closing $15, evenings $10, matinees $8, seniors/students $7 at the door
The Vancouver Asian Film Festival turns 15 this year, with a schedule that includes New York romance, unexpected Bollywood stardom, hard Cambodian homecomings and a Vancouver ghost story.
Kelly Hu stars in the festival opener Almost Perfect (7 p.m. Thursday) as a Manhattan career woman torn between the demands of her parents and adult siblings, and the prospect of a new romance. Writer-director Bertha Bay-Sa Pan will be at the festival with the movie.
Big in Bollywood (7: 15 p.m. Friday) is a documentary about American-born actor Omi Vaidya who awkwardly gets back to his South Asian cultural roots when he's cast as the star of a Bollywood comedy that becomes an instant box-office hit, turning Vaidya into an overnight Indian celebrity.
The documentary Resident Aliens (1: 30 p.m. Saturday) follows three former gang members deported from the U.S. for their crimes. Their families all survived the Cambodian genocide and the three all grew up in the U.S. The documentary watches as the three try to reinvent their lives in a country they don't know.
The House (5 p.m. Sunday) is a Vancouverfilmed ghost story by director Desiree Lim, starring Natalie Sky as a money manager who retreats to an old house where she starts writing a book, and finds out she's not alone. Zak Santiago, Emilie Ullerup and Alex Zahara cotar.
The festival wraps up Sunday with a screening of the San Francisco-filmed comedy Surrogate Valentine (7: 30 p.m.), starring musician Goh Nakamura as a musician hired to teach a TV actor (Chadd Stoops) how to play guitar for an upcoming film. The two embark upon a road trip that helps the musician figure out how to win the girl of his dreams (Lynn Chen, who will be in Vancouver for the festival).
Meanwhile five short films are vying for VAFF's annual Canadian short-film prize: Brendan Uegama's Second World War internment-camp drama Henry's Glasses, Kathleen Jayme's kids-on the-run story Liz, Jason Karman's wordless romance Square Dance Story, Mingu Kim's music documentary A Drummer's Passion, and Yota Konishi's Commercial Drive character piece Sweet.
Drive character piece Sweet. gschaefer@theprovince.com
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