FIST UP Film Festival TONIGHT!

SOUNDS OF A NEW HOPE is playing tonight at 8pm in one my favorite towns on this earth, Berkeley, CA!

WHAT: Fist Up Film Festival

WHERE: La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA

WHEN: Thursday, June 10, 2010 (8-10pm)

WHO: Panel w/ Kiwi Illafonte - MC, Activist (lead subject) & Anthony (Pele) Navarro - Organizer/Activist (In film) + special guests and Skype interview with Sounds of a New Hope director Eric Tandoc

http://fistup.tv

SNH @ FACINE in the SFC!!

For those in the Bay Area who haven't had a chance to catch it yet, Sounds of a New Hope will be playing once again in The City this Friday for FREE at the 16th Annual Filipino American Cine Festival.  It's part of the "Our Stories from the 'Hood" program.

WHERE:  San Francisco Main Library, Lower Level,

Koret Auditorium

WHEN:  Friday, November 20, 2009, 1pm

For more info, check out the Facebook event page HERE.

The FACINE festival is the longest-running festival of its kind in North America that features films by and/or about Filipino/a and Filipino/a Americans. Now on its 16th year, the festival runs for two days, November 20-21, 2009 at the San Francisco Main Library.

Artistic Director/Film programmer: Mauro Feria Tumbocon, Jr.

Schedule of screenings:

Friday, November 20, 1-5 pm

PROGRAM 1
Our stories from the 'hood
1:00-2:00 p.m.

Legend (Mark Villegas, dir & prod; 5 min, 2009)

Got Book? Auntie Helen’s Gift of Books (Florante Pete Ibanez, dir; UCLA Department of World Arts & Culture/Center for EthnoCommunications, prod; 8:45 min, 2005) - short documentary on Helen Brown, the founder of Pilipino American Reading Room & Library

Sounds of a New Hope (Eric Tandoc, dir; Mass Movement & Sine Patriyotiko, prods; 41 min, 2009) - Tandoc follows Filipino American rap artist, Kiwi, through his work with youth both in the US and the Philippines where he uses music to raise political consciousness.


PROGRAM 2
In a weird, crazy world of my neighbors:
Hilarity ensues when Filipinos celebrate reunion;
imagination soars through moments of craziness and mayhem.
2:00-3:00 p.m.

The Reunion (Pio Candelaria, dir/prod; 3 min, 2009)
The San Miguel Family Reunion (Theophilus Jamal & Joel Rosal, dirs; MojaStudio & PhlipFLIX Productions, prods; 14:23 min, 2008)
Alice, Interrupted (Theophilus Jamal, dir; MojaStudio LLC, prod; 10 min, 2009) – A special preview screening
Bunot/Husk (Ivy Universe Baldoza, dir/prod; 7:08 min, 2008)
Nekro (Crisostomo Juan Andaluz, dir; Carl and Carl Productions, prod; 19:01 min, 2008)


PROGRAM 3
Special Premiere US screening
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Handumanan/Remembrance (Seymour Barros-Sanchez, dir; Red Room Productions, prod; 85 min, 2009)
Filipina model/actress ChinChin Gutierrez stars as romance novelist faces the difficult changes in her career and life.


All films are either in English or in different Filipino languages (Tagalog, Bisaya, Pangasinan, etc.) with English subtitles.
A short Q&A with filmmakers in attendance follows after all screenings.
All screenings are FREE to public.

SNH @ CHICAGO FIL AM FILM FEST!

Calling all Chicago Bulls fans!  Sounds of a New Hope has officially been selected for the Chicago Filipino American Film Festival! 

It will be screened alongside Manilatown is in the Heart, Curtis Choy's documentary on the late legendary community activist Al Robles.

Chicago Filipino American Film Festival

Saturday, November 7, 2009, 11am

Portage Theater

for more info:

http://cfaff.org

SNH @ SAN DIEGO ASIAN FILM FEST THIS WEEKEND!

Sounds of a New Hope begins its run at the San Diego Asian Film Festival this weekend!!

You can catch it on:

Friday, October 16th, 2009 - 7:20pm (w/ filmmaker Q&A)

Saturday, October 24th, 2009 - 10:10pm

It will be part of a program called

"Sights and Sounds of a New Hope":

COTABATO CITY
Director: Karen Lin | 5 min | Video | 2009
A young boy’s imaginary journey to the music of the Electric Kulintang.

30 DAY PROMISE
Director: Shawn Lee | 9 min | Video | 2009
Vincent comes to terms with painful memories of heartbreak one autumn evening.

THE OTHER WAY ROUND
Director: Geoffrey Quan | 14 min | Video | 2008
Tomorrow morning, Lucia Grace Buenaflor will be deported from the only country she has ever known.

TATANG
Director: Jean Paolo “Nico” Hernandez | 17 min | Video | 2009
A homeless thief trains his granddaughter to steal in order to survive their impoverished life.

SOUNDS OF A NEW HOPE
Director: Eric Tandoc | 40 min | Video |2008
Sharing life experiences, beats, and rhymes, Kiwi makes connections in the Philippines, inspiring the next generation to continue the ongoing struggle for freedom.

The program is sponsored by ANAKBAYAN-San Diego, Filipino American National Historical Society (FAHNS) San Diego, and Kamalayan Alliance - CSU San Marcos

Tickets are available at the Hazard Center UltraStar Cinemas box office.  Discounted tickets available through contacting ANAKBAYAN-San Diego.

**If you live in SD and want to get more involved in making positive change for the Filipino community in the US as well as back home in the Philippines, holla at ANAKBAYAN-San Diego!

-ET

SNH @ PHILLY ASIAN AM FILM FEST!

Sounds of a New Hope plays at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival on Sunday, October 11th, 2009 at 1pm alongside the homie Tadashi Nakamura's A Song For Ourselves.

Mass Movement representin' to the fullest in Philly y'all!

BUY TICKETS HERE!

-ET

SNH @ SAN DIEGO ASIAN FILM FEST!

Sounds of a New Hope will be screening at the 2009 San Diego Asian Film Festival on:

Friday, October 16, 2009 - 7:20pm
Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 10:10pm

BUY TICKETS HERE!