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"An Afternoon with Aasif Mandvi"

Aasif Mandvi, writer and star of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival’s opening night film, Today’s Special, charmed the audience during an interview with Festival Director Chi-Hui Yang.

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Gries is the word

Writer/Director James Savoca (Around June, Sleepwalk), pictured right, welcomed actor Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite, Jackpot, Around June) to a free mixer at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking to share his craft as an actor, lessons about working with directors, and some very entertaining anecdotes. He urged aspiring actors to audition off book and share their ideas with their directors. Savoca’s Around June is set for theatrical release in San Francisco and Los Angeles this fall. Gries’ directorial debut, Pickin’ & Grinnin’, is currently in post-production.

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Magnetism at SF360 Film+Club

Codirectors Gail O’Hara and Kerthy Fix, Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields, Sean Uyehara of the San Francisco Film Society and Claudia Gonson of Magnetic Fields attended the sold-out sneak preview screening of a years-in-the-making documentary about the tunesmith and his band at SF360 Film+Club last Sunday.

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Soldiers' stories

Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu (center) spoke to students at S.R. Martin School in Hunters Point in February about his film Inside Buffalo via the San Francisco Film Society’s Youth Education program.

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Mumblicious

Bob Byington, director of SF Indiefest closing nighter Harmony and Me, offered thoughts on the filmmaking process in an audience Q&A after the screening: "We had a type of mentality where you might end up asking the sound guy to play the younger brother and then ask yourself to play the older brother and things sort of work out."

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Outside the Doc Box

Karen Everett (left) of New Doc Editing, Richard Saiz of ITVS and Michele Turnure-Salleo of the San Francisco Film Society shared ideas and techniques aimed at fostering truly innovative documentary storytelling with a standing-room-only crowd at SFFS Film Arts Forum—Thinking Outside the Doc Box.

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Entirely in English

Ruthe Stein and Jack Bair, cochairs of the Mostly British Film Festival, a new and well-received addition to the busy San Francisco film festival calendar, welcomed a full house to the opening night screening of London River at the San Francisco Neighborhood Theatre Foundation’s Vogue Theatre.

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SFIAAFF goes boom

Chi-hui Yang and fellow programmers for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival revealed their program Tuesday in an engaging visual presentation. It was announced this festival will be Yang’s last with SFIAAFF.

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Photo by Kelda McKinney.

SF Indiefest opens

Sam Fleischner (left) and Ben Chace (right) look through the SF Indiefest catalogue on opening night of the festival, where their film Wah Do Dem played.

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Scouting at Sundance

Julie Huntsinger of the Emeryville-based Telluride Film Festival and Jan Klingelhofer of Pacific Film Resources were among the many members of the Bay Area film community tromping through the snowy streets of Park City, Utah to scout for films at the newly reinvigorated and refocused Sundance Film Festival.

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