Come and watch "Sunsets Revisited" on Friday, April 9 @ 10:15pm with the directors Michael Aki and Eric Nakamura!
S. Leo Chiang and Jason Hoffman in person today!
S. Leo Chiang the director of "A Village Called Versailles" and Jason Hoffman the director of "Going Home" are going to be present at the screening today! COME OUT and ENJOY the films!
For more information about "A Village Called Versailles", please visit here.
For more information about "Going Home", please visit here.
TODAY IS THE OPENING NIGHT! YEAH!
Come join us at Gene Siskel Film Center with Laura Kina, Quentin Lee, Karin Anna Cheung and the FAAIM Family!
Showcase opening is TOMORROW!
An fun evening with artist Laura Kina, director Quentin Lee, actress Karin Anna Cheung and the FAAIM family! Invite your friends, family, colleague to join our opening night on Friday, April 2!
"Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing"
Gene Siskel Film Center Café Gallery
Opening reception, Friday, April 2nd from 6-8pm
The People I've Slept With
Directed by: Quentin Lee
Running Time: 86 minutes
Friday, April 2 @ 8:00pm
"Chicagoans" Update
Added one more short to the local short list!
STEALING by Mako Fuwa
Most of the filmmakers will be present at the screening on April 7th @ 8:00pm!!
For more information about "Chicagoans", please visit here.
2 DAYS TILL THE SHOWCASE OPENING!
YEAH!
3 DAYS TILL THE SHOWCASE OPENING!
This week showing at the showcase:
"Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing"
April 2nd - May 30th
Opening reception, Friday, April 2nd from 6-8pm
Gene Siskel Film Center Café Gallery
A retrospective featuring over thirty selected paintings, drawings and textiles (1995-present) from her Refrigerator, Hapa Soap Opera, Loving, Aloha Dreams, and Devon Avenue Sampler series as wellas some early and new works on exhibit for the first time. Kina's art collectively embraces "ikigai" or the Japanese belief of "a sense of life worth living" and reflects her "postcolonial pop aesthetic" as a multiracial Okinawan Jewish artist/educator/scholar living in a South Asian Indian neighborhood in Chicago.
http://www.faaim.org/visual/
OPENING NIGHT FILM: The People I've Slept With
Friday, April 2 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, April 4 @ 5:30pm
2009, Quentin Lee, USA, 86min, Narrative Feature
Director Quentin Lee and actress Karin Anna Cheung in person on Friday!
A sex comedy about a promiscuous young woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy and neds to figure out who the baby daddy is...NOW! ... more.
A Village Called Versailles
Saturday, April 3 @ 3:00pm
2009, S. Leo Chiang, USA, 68min, Documentary Feature
Director S. Leo Chiang in person!
An empowering story of how the Versailles people, who have already suffered so much in their lifetime, turn a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change ...more.
Going Home
Saturday, April 3 @ 5:00pm
2009, Jason Hoffman, USA, 73min, Documentary Feature
Jason Hoffmann has always identified himself as being a true New Yorker. Having grown up in liberal Greenwich Village with Jewish parents, he was content with ... more.
God Is D_ad
Saturday, April 3 @ 8:00pm
2009, Abraham Lim, USA, 94min, Narrative Feature
Tim, a comic book store clerk puts an advertisement in the newspaper looking for travel buddies to share an RV with him headed for Chicago. ... more.
2010 Program book is ready for you to download!
Click here to download the complete program book.
Fundraiser photo!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our first ever fundraiser event!
We hope you had as good of a time as we did having you.
Check out more pictures of Goh Nakamura, Laura Kina, Anida Ali and the rest of the FAAIM family!
Laura Kina reminisces about 15 years of FAAIM
http://laurakina.blogspot.com/2010/03/faaim-celebrating-15-years-of-asian.html
FILM TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!
Film tickets are on sale now, and can be purchased through Ticketmaster!
Please check each film pages for direct link to Ticketmaster.com.
Complete Film Schedule is out!
The complete film schedule of the 15th Asian American Showcase is out now! Click here to view the film schedule. The tickets will be on sale on Saturday, March 20 after 5:00pm.
The complete film schedule is also available at Gene Siskel Film Center's website.
Fundraiser ticket purchase extended to 3/15! Also available to RSVP online and pay at the door!!
Click here to RSVP online and pay at the door with cash or check only.
FAAIM presents: "Memory Into Flesh: A Tribute to the Performance & Activism of Anida Yoeu Ali"
FAAIM presents "Memory Into Flesh: A Tribute to the Performance & Activism of Anida Yoeu Ali", a multimedia conversation with the artist on stage about her energy, vision and conviction against what bell hooks terms "the white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy" from spoken word to graphic design to activism to writing to performance to motherhood on Saturday, April 10th from 6-7:30pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
FAAIM presents: "Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing"
FAAIM presents "Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing", a retrospective featuring over thirty selected paintings, drawings and textiles (1995-present) from her Refrigerator, Hapa Soap Opera, Loving, Aloha Dreams, and Devon Avenue Sampler series as well as some early and new works from April 2nd through May 30th at the Gene Siskel Film Center Café Gallery.
Opening reception, Friday, April 2nd from 6-8pm.
Come and Celebrate 15 Years of FAAIM!
FAAIM is hosting a special fundraiser to benefit the 15th Anniversary of the Asian American Showcase on Saturday, March 20th from 6-9pm at Andrew Bae Gallery with music, film, food, libations in celebration of very honored guests Anida Yoeu Ali and Laura Kina. $100 per person tickets are available for purchase here.