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Public information officer: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Contact: Tova Stabin, interim diversity coordinator, (541) 463-5852,
stabint@lanecc.edu
For release April 10, 2006
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival Best of Fest Comes to Lane Community College
EUGENE - The interim diversity coordinator of Lane Community College presents the best short films of the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival, Saturday, April 22, 7- 9:30 p.m. in the Center for Meeting and Learning, Building 19, Room 226, main campus in Eugene, 4000 E. 30th Avenue.
The DisOrient Asian American Film festival was the first film festival in Oregon featuring independent films and videos by and/or about Asian Americans. The festival portrayed and encouraged real and honest portrayals of the Asian American experience.
Exclusive to Lane Community College is the best of the shorts from the four-day festival. Films range from documentary to comedy to drama to animation and include: "Yellow Brotherhood," a documentary about a 30-year Asian American self-help group; "Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity," the struggle of the Sikh community against discrimination; "All Amateur Ecstasy," about the experiences of three women; "Jesus Henry Christ," an award-winning production of the life of a Catholic schoolboy; "What are you Anyways?," an animated film about the artists' trials being a mixed-race hapa; "Fishbowl," a coming of age tale of a plantation girl set in Hawaii in the 1970s; "Stand Up for Justice," a narrative based on a true story of Mexican-American Ralph Lazo who voluntarily joined his Japanese American friends in a WWII internment camp; "Seibutsu (Still: Life)," the story of a heartbroken night-shift photo lab worker; "Asian Pride Porn," an infomercial spoof; and "Smells Like Fish Sauce," a mock-infomercial on fish sauce by local Lane Rites of Passage students.
Jason Mak, executive director of the film festival, has taught ethnic studies at Lane, and Nadia Raza, associate director, is a Lane sociology instructor. This will be the last time to view these films in Eugene. The event is free and open to the public.
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