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PINAY AUTHOR TO SIGN BOOK AT LA ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. - Filipino American author Celine Parreñas Shimizu will be the featured lecturer at 1pm on Sat., May 12 at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival. She will sign her latest book, Straightjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies (Stanford University Press, 2012) after the lecture. The booksigning table will be manned by Philippine Expressions Bookshop and the venue is the Directors Guild of America - 7920 W Sunset Blvd., LA 90048. Tel (310) 289-2000. The LA Asian American Film Festival is organized by Visual Communications and major sponsors. Parrenas Shimizu is Associate Professor of Asian American, Film and Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a filmmaker whose movies include The Fact of Asian Women (2002), which won four national festival awards; Super Flip (1997) and Her Uprooting Plants Her (1995). Her other book is The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/ American Women on Screen and Scene (Duke University Press, 2007). For more details, visit: http://philippineexpressionsbookshop.wordpress.com/ and http://laapff.festpro.com/films/section/panels. Also showing at the same venue on the same date at 5:00pm is Give Up Tomorrow, a 95-minute documentary film which was co-produced by Marty Syjuco. Marty's brother, Miguel Syjuco wrote the much-acclaimed novel on the Philippines, Ilustrado. This documentary film is a piercing case study of political and judicial corruption involving some of the most politically prominent and powerful families in Cebu, Philippines. Despite credible evidence pointing to Paco’s innocence, and numerous inconsistencies during the trial and subsequent appeals, he was nevertheless convicted of the crime and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Viewers will sympathize with Paco’s family, who desperately try every legal avenue for appeal to overturn Paco’s conviction amid the constant melodrama and media circus surrounding his case. Amnesty International, the government of Spain, Fair Trials International and the United Nations have all advocated for Paco’s innocence and release. He continues to be jailed to this day. Director Michael Collins and Philippine-born producer Marty Syjuco have crafted a riveting tale on a young man’s struggle to maintain his innocence. Give Up Tomorrow has received worldwide critical acclaim, as winner of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival’s Audience Award and Special Jury Prize for Best New Director. In addition, the film won the Audience award at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Human Rights Award at Docs Barcelona, and the Activism Award at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival.http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/give_up_tomorrow_2012. Other films from the Philippines ( http://laapff.festpro.com/films/country/philippines) that will be shown are: Comrade Oryang (Ka Oryang) (Monday, May 14, 6:45 PM , CGV Cinemas 2) http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/comrade_oryang_2012. Johnny Loves Dolore (Sunday, May 13, 5:00PM DGA 2) http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/johnny_loves_dolores_2012 and Raymond (Sunday, May 13, 5:00PM DGA 2) http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/raymond_2012 The following is the schedule of works by Filipino Americans which will also be shown at the Festival: Where You Least Expect Us. This series of short films include: Traces No. 2: Union (Monday, May 14, 7:00 PM , CGV Cinemas 1) Directed by Joel Quizon. http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/traces_no_2_union_2012. Terra Cotta (Monday, May 14, 7:00 PM , CGV Cinemas 1) Directed by Yasmine Gomez This was Grand Prize winner at the 72 Hour Shootout Film. http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/terra_cotta_2012. Paradise Broken (Saturday, May 12, 12:00PM DGA 2) (Friday, May 18, 9:30PM Art Theatre, Long Beach. Directed by James Sereno. http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/paradise_broken_2012. I am Ghost (Sunday, May 13, 8:00PM CGV 3) (Wednesday, May 16, 9:30PM CGV 3) Directed by H.P.Mendoza. http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/i_am_a_ghost_2012 Hang Loose (Saturday, May 12, 3:00pm DGA 1) stars Dante Basco. http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/hang_loose_2012 --END-- ________________________________ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians?hl=en.
