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You wouldn’t have believed it. A concert in a hotel room. Goh Nakamura and friends played music to over 20 something folks in a room. I can’t believe it didn’t cause problems. They played till 3am. There’s a lot to say about a room concert like this and honestly, I could never give it it’s due here.That’s Goh I didn’t catch their names but they sounded great. The latter part is Goh doing Wouldn’t it be Nice by the Beach Boys. When I get the names of the folks in these pics… I’ll update it. (Sadie and Han from The Invisible Cities)She was great too, and in a room so tiny, I should have caught her name, but songs were going back to back. But she was a runner up at Kollaborration. She sounded great. (Jane Lui) Anderson Le from HIFF gets in on it and sings Rush’s Tom Sawyer, using his Blackberry to get the lyrics. This is what the room looked like. I got there at 1am, and stayed until 3am.
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I interviewed the staff of CAAM for who knows exactly what today. They're the folks that run the SFIAAFF. That's Steven Gong above, who's the executive director of CAAM, I also interviewed a few others including Chi-hui Yang, Michela Rivera Gravage, Vicci Ho, and Christine Kwon. Their names might not mean much to you, but they're part of a staff that run this festival. I realize after the...
I interviewed the staff of CAAM for who knows exactly what today. They’re the folks that run the SFIAAFF. That’s Steven Gong above, who’s the executive director of CAAM, I also interviewed a few others including Chi-hui Yang, Michela Rivera Gravage, Vicci Ho, and Christine Kwon. Their names might not mean much to you, but they’re part of a staff that run this festival. I realize after the interviews, that they’re rather selfless in a lot of ways, and they put together a machine that’s a lot bigger than themselves. Some of the other festivals are run by one or a few persons due to budgets, etc and those festivals have a completely different flavor. Either way, I’m saying nice stuff now, maybe it’ll change later.
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I worried and worried about knowing enough about the guy for too long. If I didn't though, would I feel prepared? Would I do well? I'm not sure. I swear I did all I could in a short amount of time to be ready. Watched some of his movies, read about it, took notes, thought back to my days at UCLA as an East Asian Studies major (Japanese emphasis), GR work, and came up with a short list of...
I worried and worried about knowing enough about the guy for too long. If I didn’t though, would I feel prepared? Would I do well? I’m not sure. I swear I did all I could in a short amount of time to be ready. Watched some of his movies, read about it, took notes, thought back to my days at UCLA as an East Asian Studies major (Japanese emphasis), GR work, and came up with a short list of questions. link to Tokyo Sonata site. Here’s the release schedule. This is what the back of the Apple store looks like. I was kidding that we were like thieves jammed up back here, but they really put thieves back here while they call the police. If you see this room, it means you did something bad. So I hope you never do. Yet being back here with the filmmaker made a bit of pressure mount more. I’ve come recommended by translator / filmmaker Linda Hoaglund as being good at this and they talked about it for a bit. That’s us with mics in our faces. Mr Kurosawa answers questions with a lot of care and he’s quite gracious and genuine. That alone should tell you to see Tokyo Sonata when it makes it runs in theaters. That is Mr Taro Goto the translator on the left. He did a great job, and I had no idea he was adept at doing translations from Japanese to English. I know him as part of the film festival in SF, and as a producer of some indie films. This is the sign. I guess it got on indieWire I don’t know much about indieWire except it’s film related. Either way, the event went well at the Apple store. It’s pretty much an honor to do things there.
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