AUG 20
Wide Angle: An Intergenerational Salon
with filmmakers EMIKO OMORI and STUART GAFFNEY
Wednesday, August 20th
7 - 9PM
530 Hampshire, Suite 406
Between 18th and Mariposa Streets, SF
Join KSW for presentations by and discussion with filmmakers Emiko Omori and
Stuart Gaffney. In a casual studio setting, learn about each artist's
approach to film, and take the opportunity to ask any burning questions of
your own. There will be time for q & a afterwards. Light refreshments will
be served.
Free and open to the public. $5 donations much appreciated!
With questions or for more information, please contact KSW at 415.503.0520
or info@kearnystreet.org.
About EMIKO OMORI
Emiko Omori, filmmaker and cinematographer, began her career in 1968, when
there were few camerawomen and fewer still Asian American camerawomen. Her
first job was as camerawoman/editor on the KQED program, "Newsroom." She
left KQED in 1972 and, since then, has freelanced as a cinematographer on
many award-winning films, and traveled extensively with her work in addition
to producing her own films. In 1991, she wrote and directed the highly
acclaimed drama, Hot Summer Winds, a co-production of American Playhouse and
KCET. In January 1999, her documentary/memoir, Rabbit in the Moon, about
her family's confinement in a World War II American internment camp,
premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was broadcast on POV, and went on
to win a National Emmy for Outstanding Historical Program. At Sundance she
was awarded the Best Documentary Cinematography award for Rabbit in the Moon
and for her work on Academy Award nominee Regret to Inform, a documentary
about Vietnam/American war widows from both sides of the conflict. She has
taught at USC, San Francisco City College, and at San Francisco State
University.
About STUART GAFFNEY
Stuart Gaffney has been making film and video since 1994. His works have
screened worldwide at a wide variety of venues such as broadcast
television (KQED's "Living Room Festival," WYBE's "Through the Lens"),
cinematheques (American Cinematheque, San Francisco Cinemathque), museums
(Guggenheim Museum, Fine Arts Museum of Boston), arts centers (Pacific
Film Archive, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), galleries (Art in General,
Leslie-Lohman Art Gallery), conferences (National AIDS Update Conference,
Hapa Issues Forum Conference), World AIDS Day events (Offener Kanal
Hamburg World AIDS Day Program, Budapest Positive Film Festival), video
festivals (Dallas Video Festival, Brussels Mondial de la Video), as well
as film festivals (Cork International International Short Film Festival,
Palm Springs Short Film Festival). Born and raised in Milwaukee, he studied
English literature at Yale University and learned film and videomaking at
San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco, the Bay Area
Video Coalition, and the Film Arts Foundation. He works as a Project
Director at the UCSF AIDS Policy Research Center.
AUG 22
APAture Launch Party
An APAture Fundraiser co-sponsored by manja.org
Featuring:
Largesse
Scrabbel
DJs Riff Raff and O-Dub
Blind Tiger
787 Broadway @ Powell
8pm - 1am
Doors open 8pm; Largesse and Scrabbel program begin at 9pm.
admission:
$10 before 10.30PM
$5 - 20 sliding scale after 10.30PM
RSVP now!
All proceeds go to the production of KSW's 5th Annual APAture!
ABOUT SCRABBEL:
Originally a collaboration between Dan Lee and old high school friend Becky Barron, Scrabbel, over the last year, has morphed into something of a solo project for Dan. For the most recent performances, he has enlisted the help of friends -
Rosemary(violin), Stanley(guitar), Atsushi(bass), Helen(cello) and Nathalie(vox), to re-interpret the songs off of the debut, and play the new ones for the upcoming release.
ABOUT LARGESSE:
LARGESSE is a guitar pop outlet for Stanley Lam and assorted cohorts, who made their debut at APAture 2000. Stanley takes inspiration from soul singers, indie rock, hip hop, country and bluegrass, dub reggae, bossa nova, improvised music, heavy psychedelic rock, techno, and other dope things. He also plays with Scrabbel, a similarly open-minded music project.
ABOUT MANJA.ORG
Manja, our co-sponsor, is an independently owned/run effort supporting the work of Asian American artists and arts organizations in San Francisco.
Their primary function is to help build audience participation in the San Francisco Asian American arts. They do that by promoting major Asian American arts festivals, creating event guides, and sponsoring special events.
