EUGENE – APRIL 23rd-25th
PORTLAND – MAY 1st
As you may be aware, the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon returns this April 23rd to 25th, 2010 to the Bijou Art Cinemas in Eugene, Oregon with a special Portland presentation at the UO White Stag building on May 1st. We have all been working extremely hard year-round to bring you the FIFTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR that is packed full of great films, workshops, parties, discussions with over 25 filmmakers over four days. We are a community of volunteers whose passion for art and positive community change show through in our festival.
Highlights include:
· Festival World Premiere of local Eugene/Springfield Asian American middle and high school student films from the three-week summer program Rites of Passage that is taught by our Executive Director Jason Mak.
· Opening Night Gala on FRIDAY, April 23rd featuring the film MR. SADMAN about an out-of-work Saddam Hussein body-double who seeks his fortunes in Hollywood. Filipino American Director Patrick Epino will be available after the screening for Q&A. Welcome by Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy. (7PM Bijou Art Cinemas, Eugene)
· Opening Night Reception following MR.SADMAN at the UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art hosted by KEZI’s Gia Vang and featuring Soul/R&B singer DAWEN, who explores identity and social issues in his music.
· Bob Watada hosts a shorts program “LIFE AS WE KNOW IT” that features the documentary “LT.WATADA” by Oscar-winning Director Freida Lee Mock that details his son Lt. Ehren Watada’s heroic resistance to the Iraq war.
· Award-winning filmmaker S. Leo Chiang arrives in Eugene to host a workshop on “Social Justice & Filmmaking” prior to screening his film A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES that chronicles the touching tale of the Vietnamese community in New Oreans post-Hurricane Katrina.
· Closing Night on Sunday, April 25th features the fun, colorful, and out FRUIT FLY musical about a young Filipina artist on a quest to find her biological mother. Along the way, she comes to realize that she just might be a fruit fly, a woman that likes to hang around gay men. Director H.P. Mendoza and star L.A. Renigen in attendance.
· Closing Night Awards Reception follows FRUIT FLY at the Oregon Electric Station.
· BREAKING NEWS: Our special Portland screening on May 1st, will take place at the University of Oregon’s White Stag building and feature the new documentary film 9500 LIBERTY by Annabel Park and Eric Byler, an extremely powerful documentary about the battle of a county in Virginia that becomes ground zero in America’s explosive battle over immigration policy. www.9500liberty.com (Additional details and program information forthcoming)
ABOUT DISORIENT
DisOrient is a social justice film festival dedicated to deconstructing the media stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans as "Orientals". We believe in the power of film-as-art to educate, heal and improve the lives of people by giving voice to their experiences. Over the last five years, the festival has earned a national reputation as a destination for serious Asian American films and filmmakers and is the only festival of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. We select new Asian/Pacific American works using the W.E.B. Dubois standard of “for us, by us, or about us" that fit with the mission and vision of our festival.
For the most updated information and schedule, please visit our website at www.disorientfilm.org
PORTLAND – MAY 1st
As you may be aware, the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon returns this April 23rd to 25th, 2010 to the Bijou Art Cinemas in Eugene, Oregon with a special Portland presentation at the UO White Stag building on May 1st. We have all been working extremely hard year-round to bring you the FIFTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR that is packed full of great films, workshops, parties, discussions with over 25 filmmakers over four days. We are a community of volunteers whose passion for art and positive community change show through in our festival.
Highlights include:
· Festival World Premiere of local Eugene/Springfield Asian American middle and high school student films from the three-week summer program Rites of Passage that is taught by our Executive Director Jason Mak.
· Opening Night Gala on FRIDAY, April 23rd featuring the film MR. SADMAN about an out-of-work Saddam Hussein body-double who seeks his fortunes in Hollywood. Filipino American Director Patrick Epino will be available after the screening for Q&A. Welcome by Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy. (7PM Bijou Art Cinemas, Eugene)
· Opening Night Reception following MR.SADMAN at the UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art hosted by KEZI’s Gia Vang and featuring Soul/R&B singer DAWEN, who explores identity and social issues in his music.
· Bob Watada hosts a shorts program “LIFE AS WE KNOW IT” that features the documentary “LT.WATADA” by Oscar-winning Director Freida Lee Mock that details his son Lt. Ehren Watada’s heroic resistance to the Iraq war.
· Award-winning filmmaker S. Leo Chiang arrives in Eugene to host a workshop on “Social Justice & Filmmaking” prior to screening his film A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES that chronicles the touching tale of the Vietnamese community in New Oreans post-Hurricane Katrina.
· Closing Night on Sunday, April 25th features the fun, colorful, and out FRUIT FLY musical about a young Filipina artist on a quest to find her biological mother. Along the way, she comes to realize that she just might be a fruit fly, a woman that likes to hang around gay men. Director H.P. Mendoza and star L.A. Renigen in attendance.
· Closing Night Awards Reception follows FRUIT FLY at the Oregon Electric Station.
· BREAKING NEWS: Our special Portland screening on May 1st, will take place at the University of Oregon’s White Stag building and feature the new documentary film 9500 LIBERTY by Annabel Park and Eric Byler, an extremely powerful documentary about the battle of a county in Virginia that becomes ground zero in America’s explosive battle over immigration policy. www.9500liberty.com (Additional details and program information forthcoming)
ABOUT DISORIENT
DisOrient is a social justice film festival dedicated to deconstructing the media stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans as "Orientals". We believe in the power of film-as-art to educate, heal and improve the lives of people by giving voice to their experiences. Over the last five years, the festival has earned a national reputation as a destination for serious Asian American films and filmmakers and is the only festival of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. We select new Asian/Pacific American works using the W.E.B. Dubois standard of “for us, by us, or about us" that fit with the mission and vision of our festival.
For the most updated information and schedule, please visit our website at www.disorientfilm.org
