This is just a friendly reminder that the San Diego Asian Film Foundation's Call for Entries Final Deadline is Approaching! June 10 is just a few weeks away!

10th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival
Oct 15-29, 2009
Call For Entries
We're looking for the Best in Asian and Asian American cinema
CASH prize for Jury Winner
Late Deadline: June 10, 2009 ($40 fee)

Rules, entry forms, and festival info at www.sdaff.org

for more info: 858.565.1264 Info@sdaff.org

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JUSTIN LIN's "FAST AND FURIOUS" IS #1 BOX OFFICE HIT THIS WEEK - $72.5 MILLION GROSS AND OVER $20,000 PER SCREEN

Big Props to JUSTIN LIN on his huge weekend opening $72.5 million for FAST AND FURIOUS starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker and Jordanna Brewster and many of the guys and gals from Finishing The Game and Better Luck Tomorrow! If you are a fan of the genre - you will love this edition. Check it out!

LA TIMES - SAYS
Director Justin Lin is behind the wheel again -- he of the beautiful moving metal of "Tokyo Drift," the one redeeming aspect of No. 3 in the franchise, except for the wry Vin cameo at the end. Lin brought a tight new torque to the series even though he didn't have the best story line and characters to work with (not that there's much story to be found in any of these vehicles).

Lin infuses the necessary full-throttle bits with a dynamic lyricism, choreographing the chaos like a whipped-up jazz-fusion set -- trusting absolutely in the hypnotic power and beauty of strength and movement. Which is why "Fast & Furious" is, in a very bizarre way, a thing of gasp-inducing artistry to watch, even if you're not a member of the NASCAR, gear-head, street-racing crowd.

Even with all the movie's speed, at the deep center of its adrenaline-charged heart "Fast & Furious" is a love story of boys and their cars, with all of the longing looks sweeping right past the barely clad bones of girls who gather like flies to honey, draping themselves over the cars and the guys, anything to get close to the power that rumbles to furious life within.

GO TO http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-fastfurious3-2009apr03,0,4338270.story
for full review

MORE LATER THIS WEEK!!!

CONGRATS AGAIN EVERYONE!

JUWAN CHUNG's critically acclaimed first feature BABY opens LA this weekend!
FEB 26 TO MARCH 4 - ONE WEEK ONLY

THE DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT
251 S. MAIN STREET
LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

SF CHRONICLE called it "BRASH, STYLISH AND VIOLENT... THE ASIAN AMERICAN "BOYZ 'N THE HOOD"

Check out the special events around the film !
Be there for the KOGI BBQ TACOS tonight...

GO TO:
WWW.BABYTHEMOVIE.COM

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