Slant is an Asian American shorts film festival presented by the Aurora Picture Show, a nonprofit micro-cinema that presents artist-made, non-commercial film and video.
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- Slant 9
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Saturday, May 30 at 7:00pm - Slant 8: Documentary Showcase
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Sunday, June 1 at 3:00pm - Slant 8: Getting to Nobu
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Saturday, May 31 at 8:00pm - Slant 8: Opening Night Films
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- Best of Slant DVD now on sale! 4:18pm Apr 11
Slant Film Festival We'll release our call for entries soon. Submissions due in February. Slant 2010 will be on May 22, or thereabouts.
Slant Film Festival Tze Chun, another Slant alum, is making the rounds with his feature film Children of Invention. Catch it in Denver this weekend.
Tze Chun joint coming soon to a festival near you!
Location:Vancouver, Denver, Austin, Ojai/Ventura, Stockton, Taiwan!
Time:11:55PM Friday, September 4th
Slant Film Festival Former Slant filmmaker Patrick Epino has a new film, Mr. Sadman. Screening this weekend in L.A.
Location:Downtown Independent Theater
Time:7:00PM Friday, November 20th
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Slant Film Festival
invites you to the 9th annual Slant Film Fest! Tickets now on sale http://www.aurorapictureshow.org/calenda
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For the ninth year, Aurora presents Slant, an eclectic showcase of the best in emerging Asian American cinema.
Slant Film Festival
For the 9th year, Aurora Picture Show presents Slant: Bold Asian American Images. Slant combats tired stereotypes of Asian Americans with quirky comedies, compelling visions, and fresh perspectives on the Asian American experience. This program runs for 109 minutes with a brief intermission halfway through.
The majority... of the 11 films in this year's program are being screened in Texas for the first time. Some of the films may share themes, but their subject matter couldn't be more different.
Waiting for a Train, by Oscar Bucher, is a documentary about Toshio Hirano, a musician whose lifelong love of bluegrass takes him on a journey from Tokyo to Texas to California. Machine With Wishbone, by Canadian filmmaker Randall Okita, uses the artwork of Arthur Ganson to tell the story of a little wishbone on a whimsical journey through a world of snoring beds and paper birds. Aram Siu Wai Collier's The Others uses found footage to humorously build up a love-hate drama between numerous 'ethnic' characters -- Mexican, Navajo, Inuit, Lakota, Puerto Rican and Arab -- all played by one man, Lou Diamond Phillips.
This year's festival also features works by a few Texas- born or based filmmakers. Josh Kim, a native of Orange, Texas, tells a tale of love letters and missed connections in The Postcard. Soham Mehta and Tim Tsai, both in the MFA film program at University of Texas Austin, are back at Slant for the second year in a row with very different films. Tsai's comedy, Alley of Hidden Dangers!, pits two robbery-minded thugs against a tough Asian mom, while Mehta's drama Survivors, presents the bone-chilling predicament of the only two people left alive in their town after a zombie attack.
The full list of films:
Girl with a Walkman by Melina Leon
Five Fingers by Kevin Barker
Beijing Haze by J.P. Chan
The Postcard by Josh Kim
One Night in LA by Jon Maxwell & Ray Huang
Survivors by Soham Mehta
Alley of Hidden Dangers! by Tim Tsai
Waiting for a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story by Oscar Bucher
The Pain with Being Thirsty by David Yun
Machine with Wishbone by Randall Okita
The Others by Aram Siu Wai Collier
Curator Melissa Hung and filmmaker Soham Mehta will be in attendance.
Admission is free to Aurora members and $6 for non-members. Please note that tickets must be purchased in advance. There will be no door sales for this event. Aurora members please RSVP.
Tickets are available online: http://tinyurl.com/cd4ep7
Slant Film Festival
One more week to submit to the 9th Annual Slant. Filmmakers whose works are accepted into the festival will be paid.
You can find all the information here on our website:
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org/content
Slant Film Festival
Angry Asian Man on the Slant DVD:
http://www.angryasianman.com/2008/05/sla
