2014 spring showcase booklet

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S P R I N G4TH ANNUAL

LIKEFATHER,LIKESON

S H O W C A S EApril 17-24, 2014

WWW.PAC-ARTS.ORG

A WEEK-LONG PRESENTATION OF ASIAN CINEMA + LIVE COMEDY!


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George Takei doesnt shy away from

digging into his remarkable career

and personal life in Jennifer Kroots

delightful and incisive film TO BE

TAKEI. As a child forced into Japanese-

American internment camps, the

actor-turned-activist reveals the ways

that racism affected him well into his

early acting career, where he played

stereotypical Asian stock characters in

film and television shows. Even after

landing the iconic role of Hikaru Sulu

on Star Trek, Takeis sharp eye, coupled

with his wicked sense of humor,

continued to challenge the status quo

well into the twenty-first century.

Now at 76, nine years after formally

coming out of the closet, Takei and

his husband, Brad, have become the

poster couple for marriage equality,

highlighting homophobia through

television interviews and hilarious

skits, many of which have gone viral

and garnered widespread attention.

Whether dishing on William Shatner or

parodying the now-infamous comments

made by Tim Hardaway, Takei proves

time and again why his presence in

popular culture remains as fresh and

necessary as ever. Sundance Film

Festival

Presented by

TO BE TAKEI

Thurs, April 17| 6:30pm

Director Jennifer Kroot

USA| 90 mins

OPENING NIGHTPRESENTATION

GEORGE TAKEI SCHEDULED TO APPEAR!


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Pac-Arts is proud to partner with

Mo`olelo to present the San Diego

premiere of the latest sketch comedy

show by 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors.

What is 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors,

you ask? It is like Comedy Centrals Key

and Peele if they were Asian Americans.

Its like Saturday Night Live would be if

they ever hired Asian Americans. Its

comedy with an Asian American flair.

And trust us, theres lots to laugh about

when it comes to Asians. The Warriors

comic duo of Michael Chih Ming

Hornbuckle and Greg Watanabe (and

special guest stars Jully Lee and Albert

Park) probe and sniff along the Pacific

Rim for the funniest topics.

Together since 1994, the 18 Mighty

Mountain Warriors have performed from

New York to Los Angeles, from Hong

Kong to Vancouver. They were named

by the San Francisco Bay Guardian as

the Bay Areas best comedy troupe

in 2005 and were Sketch Comedy

Champions in 2006 and 2010. Inspired

by groups such as Monty Pythons

Flying Circus, Culture Clash, SNL, and

Kids in the Hall,their irreverent style of

sketch comedy ranges from slapstick to

political and takes no prisoners.

18 MIGHTY

MOUNTAIN WARRIORS

Fri, April 18| 11:00am

Fri, April 18| 8:00pm

Sun, April 20| 2:00pm

USA| 90 mins

SPECIALPERFORMANCES

Presented in

partnership with


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27C LOAF ROCKS


Wed, April 23| 6:30pm

Director Lin Cheng-sheng

Taiwan| 100 mins

Pastry Reception Sponsored

by Pangea

From deep in the pineapple plantations

of southern Taiwan came a young man

who would go on to become a national

hero and a household name. For Wu

Pao-chun, the endpoint was never in

question: he was going to become

the greatest baker in the world. As

mythologized in 27C LOAF ROCKS,

Wu would do it by mastering the

perfect red bean bun, a reminder of his

childhood crush, the one who got away

because her family was rich. And so he

hops from city to city, ascending from

apprentice to master, in search of bread

thats alive, bread that moves. The

temperature of the title is not just the

optimal setting for pastry perfection.

It is energy cultivated from conviction,

heat transformed into art that would

take him to Paris and back.

Is anybody out there? So wonders

rapper Dan Matthews on his latest

album, though it could be the question

of his life thus far. Born in Korea and

adopted by a white family in L.A., Dan

sought an answer last year and found hisbiological parents. The search yielded

not just anybody, but a twin brother he

never knew existed and a community of

fellow adoptees from around the world.

AKA DAN is the diary of a young man

re-examining what it means to be a son,

seeing the person he could have been in

the face of his twin, and discovering the

power of his music. In the process, Dan

encounters the anybody out there inhimself, ready to face a future with two

families and a confident new sense of

who he can still be.

AKA DAN

Sat, April 19| 3:35pm

Director Jon Maxwell

USA, South Korea

85 mins

FILMS

DAN MATTHEWS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR!


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MISS GRANNY



Director Hwang Dong-Hyuk

South Korea| 124 mins

74-year-old Oh Mal-soon knows her

hot-tempered ways are driving her

daughter-in-law and grandkids nutty.

One night, she chances upon an old-

timey photo studio and decides to get

a self-portrait. But this aint no ordinary

photo studio. After the shoot, Granny

looks in the mirror and finds that shes

been magically transformed into the

twenty-year-old version of herself. Not

that it stops her from continuing to

wreak havoc with her accented barbs

and bad-grandma tendencies. The

result is 17 Again meets Roman Holiday

for the k-drama universe: love is taken

to the extremes, men are cut down

mercilessly, and anyone with a karaoke

mic is a pop star at heart.

The hiatus is officially over. After

retreating to the monastery, Tony Jaa

is back to doing what he does best.

Breaking sinks and skulls. Kneeing fools

in the gut. As in Jaas greatest film The

Protector, this sequel follows countryboy Kham, who gets very, very angry

when his elephant is stolen, leading to

an international scuffle that can only be

solved by scaling buildings, defeating

giant men, and playing on the third

rail of the subway. Tony Jaa is joined

by newcomer Marrese Crump and 54

dynamo Jeeja Yanin (Chocolate), back

from a hiatus of her own. The resulting

combinations are as exhilarating asthey are rare. Jeeja vs. Tony. Tony vs.

the RZA. Man vs. motorcycle. Fire vs.

flesh. Elephant vs. all that is ignorant

about the world. Welcome back!

THE PROTECTOR 2



Director Prachya Pinkaew

Thailand| 104 mins

FILMS


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SHIFT

Fri, April 18| 6:00pm

Mon, April 21| 4:40pm

Director Siege Ledesma

Philippines| 81 minutes

Call-center worker Estela is as

disinterested in the world as gay guys

are in her. At her side at the moment

is Trevor, who Estela inevitably falls in

love with despite the fact that he has

a boyfriend. Over SMS and IMs, lunch

and drinks, Estela cozies up to him

nevertheless, putting out her most

vulnerable self. SHIFT belongs squarely

to actress Yeng Constantino in her big-

screen debut, her natural, un-actorly

instincts keeping the film from obvious

angst and making it a tender progression

of life questions answered with a quiet

resignation. In the emerging indie scene

of Filipino cinema, SHIFT stands out,

uncovering a restless pop underbelly

made up of overlapping text message

windows, rock songs, and dreams that

refuse to die.

There are labor laws that keep

12-year-olds like Siddharth from the

workforce, but for struggling zipper-

repairman Mahendra, it makes perfect

sense to send his son off to work. The

questions start around Diwali, whenSiddharth uncharacteristically doesnt

return home. Some tell Mahendra his

son probably ran away. But others

whisper the more likely possibility:

that Siddharth, like thousands of

other Indian children each year, was

abducted. With the precision of a thriller

but the aching heart of a family drama,

Asian Canadian director Richie Mehta

captures a fathers desperation throughthe sheer pragmatics of investigation

and survival, yet manages to deliver

social realism, drama, and even hope.

SIDDHARTH


Director Richie Mehta

India, Canada| 96 mins

FILMS


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PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENTANDMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTSPRESENT

King Hu in TaiwanThe first-ever San Diego retrospective of the greatest of all martial arts directors.

Featuring newly-restored prints of the classics

DRAGON INN and TOUCH OF ZEN

June 5-7, 2014, Museum of Photographic Arts


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SPONSORS

THE SPRING SHOWCASE WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE

GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS:

SPECIAL THANKS: Tim Bui, Leeva Chung, Fritz Friedman,

Richard Go, Traci Hong, Robert Ito, Jeff Iwami, Dr, Jeff Krebs,Rodney & Lois Lanthorne, Lidia Martinez, George McGregor,

Timothy Moon, Leo Morales, Dana Sass, Jorge Silva, Brad

Takei, George Takei, Ping Wang, Nancy Worlie

GENEROUSLY PRINTED BY:


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SCHEDULE & INFO

THURSDAY, APRIL 17

6:30pm TO BE TAKEI (USA)

FRIDAY, APRIL 18

11:00am 18 MIGHTY MOUNTAIN

WARRIORS

6:00pm SHIFT (Philippines)

8:00pm 18 MIGHTY MOUNTAIN

WARRIORS

8:30pm WHY DONT YOU PLAY

IN HELL? (Japan)

SATURDAY, APRIL 19

1:00pm MISS GRANNY (S. Korea)

3:35pm AKA DAN (USA)

6:00pm HOW TO FIGHT IN SIX INCH

HEELS (Vietnam)

8:30pm THE PROTECTOR 2 (Thailand)

SUNDAY, APRIL 202:00pm 18 MIGHTY MOUNTAIN

WARRIORS

3:40pm 27C LOAF ROCKS (Taiwan)

5:55pm SIDDHARTH (India)

8:20pm WHY DONT YOU PLAY

IN HELL? (Japan)

MONDAY, APRIL 21

4:40pm SHIFT (Philippines)

6:35pm TBA

8:45pm Mystery Kung Fu Theater

TUESDAY, APRIL 22

6:20pm MISS GRANNY (S. Korea)

8:55pm TBA

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 234:20pm TBA

6:30pm 27C LOAF ROCKS (Taiwan)

8:40pm THE PROTECTOR 2 (Thailand)

THURSDAY, April 25

6:30pm LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (Japan)

8:50pm TBA

VENUE

UltraStar Mission Valley, Hazard Center

7510 Hazard Center Drive,San Diego, CA 92108

ALL-ACCESS PASS

Save money and get front-of-line entry

to every program, including 18 Mighty

Mountain Warriors and To Be Takei.

Limited quantities. To purchase, contact

[email protected] call 619-400-5910.

TICKETS

Tickets to all shows are available online

now and at the UltraStar Mission Valley box

office starting April 16 at 1pm.

FILM PRICES:

$11.50 General

$8.00 Member$9.00 Student/Senior/Military

(at the door only)

Contact [email protected]

group pricing for 10+ tickets

TO BE TAKEI PRICES:

$15.00 General

$11.50 Member

18 MIGHTY MOUNTAIN WARRIORPRICES:

$20.00 General

$16.50 Member

$18.00/ticket Group of 10 or more

$16.00/ticket Non-Profit Group of 10

or more

CONTACTQuestions about the Spring Showcase?

Contact us: [email protected]

or 619-400-5911

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