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Peace & Justice Events:
4/23-25: DISORIENT
ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
4/23-24: Film: The Most Dangerous Man in
America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.
4/24: NAACP's ACT-SO Competition
We
post events that we think will move forward the discussion of community
issues. Only those activities specifically co-sponsored by CALC carry
CALC's endorsement.
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DISORIENT
ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL OF OREGON STARTS THIS FRIDAY
April 23rd to
25th,
Bijou Art Cinemas, 492 E. 13th, Eugene
The
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon returns this April 23rd to
25th, 2010 to the Bijou Art Cinemas in Eugene, Oregon. We have all been working
extremely hard year-round to bring you the FIFTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR that is
packed full of great films, workshops, parties, discussions with over 25
filmmakers over four days. We are a community of volunteers whose passion for
art and positive community change show through in our festival.
Schedule
Highlights
include:
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Festival World Premiere of local Eugene/Springfield Asian American middle and
high school student films from the three-week summer program Rites of Passage
that is taught by our Executive Director Jason Mak.
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Opening Night Gala on FRIDAY, April 23rd featuring the film MR. SADMAN about an
out-of-work Saddam Hussein body-double who seeks his fortunes in Hollywood.
Filipino American Director Patrick Epino will be available after the screening
for Q&A. Welcome by Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy. (7PM Bijou Art Cinemas,
Eugene)
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Opening Night Reception following MR.SADMAN at the UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum
of Art hosted by KEZI's Gia Vang and featuring Soul/R&B singer DAWEN, who
explores identity and social issues in his music.
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Bob Watada hosts a shorts program "LIFE AS WE KNOW IT" that features the
documentary "LT.WATADA" by Oscar-winning Director Freida Lee Mock that details
his son Lt. Ehren Watada's heroic resistance to the Iraq war. Noon-Saturday
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Award-winning filmmaker S. Leo Chiang arrives in Eugene to host a workshop on
"Social Justice & Filmmaking" prior to screening his film A VILLAGE CALLED
VERSAILLES that chronicles the touching tale of the Vietnamese community in New
Oreans post-Hurricane Katrina.
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Closing Night on Sunday, April 25th features the fun, colorful, and out FRUIT
FLY musical about a young Filipina artist on a quest to find her biological
mother. Along the way, she comes to realize that she just might be a fruit fly,
a woman that likes to hang around gay men. Director H.P. Mendoza and star L.A.
Renigen in attendance.
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Closing Night Awards Reception follows FRUIT FLY at the Oregon Electric
Station.
ABOUT
DISORIENT
DisOrient
is a social justice film festival dedicated to deconstructing the media
stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans as "Orientals". We believe
in the power of film-as-art to educate, heal and improve the lives of people by
giving voice to their experiences. Over the last five years, the festival has
earned a national reputation as a destination for serious Asian American films
and filmmakers and is the only festival of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.
We select new Asian/Pacific American works using the W.E.B. Dubois standard of
"for us, by us, or about us" that fit with the mission and vision of our
festival.
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Film
Showings: The Most Dangerous Man in
America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.
Bijou
Art Cinema, 492 E. 13th
Friday
4/23: 5 & 7pm, Reception: 8:30pm
Saturday
4/24: 5 & 7pm, Reception: 8:30pm
The
film by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith suggests the actions of Daniel
Ellsberg triggered the Watergate scandal and drove President Richard Nixon from
office. There are audio tapes of Nixon railing against Ellsberg as a traitor in
conversations with Henry Kissinger, who called Ellsberg "the most
dangerous man in America."
David
Edelstein with New York magazine described the film as, "Riveting! A
straight-ahead, enthralling story of moral courage. This story changed the
world. The movie offers one revelatory interview after another. CRITICS' PICK!"
Reception
Following the Film:
Co-director
Judith Ehrlich will be the special guest speaking at receptions being held next
door to the Bijou at the new Rock Java Coffeehouse.
Doors
will open to reception ticket holders immediately after the early evening
screenings conclude (after 830 PM). Each reception includes complimentary appetizers,
wine and beer catered by Café Soriah. Hot drinks and pastry by Rock Java will
also be for sale.
Anne
O'Brien of Eugene Beyond War guarantees a lively discussion and celebration at
the receptions with her sister Judith in the room. She just returned from the
Ashland Film Festival where Ehrlich spoke on a panel of women directors. With
her witty comments on filmmaking and her experience at the Academy awards, she
had everyone laughing in the packed house.
We
highly recommend getting your tickets to both the film and the reception as
soon as possible as the film has been selling out in NYC, SF, Marin County and
even Palm Springs!! And the coffeehouse next door to the Bijou only holds 50
people so we expect that will sell out on both nights also.
The
$25 reception tickets are available only at Rock Java Coffeehouse next door to
Bijou or from Anne O'Brien of Beyond War and David Zupan of EMA/EPW. The film
tickets will be available at the Bijou
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NAACP's ACT-SO Competition
Saturday, April 24, 7pm
Hult Center
The Eugene-Springfield branch of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will hold
its 19th Annual ACT-SO competition at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Hult
Center's Soreng Theatre.
See
students compete in Dance, Drawing, Painting, Dramatics, Poetry,
MusicVocal/Contemporary, Oratory & more. ACT-SO, an acronym for Academic,
Cultural, Technological & Scientific Olympics, is a year long enrichment
program designed to recruit, stimulate, improve & encourage high academic
& cultural achievement among African-American high school students.
Free.
Sponsored by the NAACP.
Contact: Rayna Luvert,
541-682-6394
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For Peace & Justice,
Michael Carrigan
Community Alliance of Lane County
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