The orchestra serenaded the opening night audience with a little taste of what they were about to encounter. The sounds of the trumpets, horns, and piano offered an optimistic feeling and prepared the audience for San Diego City College's fall musical, "Bye Bye Birdie."
"Children of Invention," presented as the opening film of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, is writer and director Tze Chun's first feature film. This movie has so far won 13 well-deserved festival awards, including "Grand Jury Prize, Best Film" and "Best Narrative Feature" at the SDAFF.
This year, the San Diego Asian Film Festival featured "Make Yourself At Home," about an arranged marriage between a Korean and a Korean-American.
When former channel 10 news anchor, Lee Ann Kim, Executive Director and co-founder of the San Diego Asian Film Festival developed the concept of SDAFF in 99, she did so with the goal of bringing a broad vision of Asian culture to the people of San Diego. On this, the 10 year anniversary of SDAFF, Kim and the SDAFF board of directors staged their most ambitious film festival to date.
Where the Wild things Are, a film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book of the same name, tells the story of Max, an incorrigible young man who just craves love and attention, like all people, but storms out of the house after picking a fight with his mom, who sends him to bed without supper.
The world looks so inviting when we are 16, in high school and thinking about the wonders the world has to offer us.
"And you better hurry, Nick, cause by anybody's watch but the warden's, you're already late," Clyde Shelton yells after attorney Nick Rice, as he runs off to save a colleague.
"Drag Me to Hell," Sam Raimi's gorrific return to all things spooky, is a masterful blend of comedy and horror with a bloodbath of artsy cinematography and witty moral commentary.
When their favorite TV-show does not fulfill their expectations, or their favorite TV-couple breaks up, many fans turn to fanfiction to experience what was not meant to be on television. Fanfiction describes stories written mostly by non-professional writers who base their stories on storylines and characters from TV-shows or movies and then take the story into a different direction.