Slant Film Fest in Houston Next Weekend

May 12, 2007

Hope you can check it out if you’re in the Houston area. We’ll also have issues of Hyphen and other Hyphen goodies there. As we’re not really carried in many places in Texas, this is a good chance to get your hands on an issue.

And not to leave out the Bay Area, for the first time this year, the festival will also travel to San Francisco. More details coming soon, but mark your calendars for July 21st at the 4 Star Theater (an Asian American-owned theater which we wrote about in issue 11).

Many thanks to the Aurora Picture Show, a nonprofit microcinema in Houston, which has been hosting and funding Slant all these years.

Here’s the detail on the film programs:

The 7th annual Slant Film Festival
May 19-20, Aurora Picture Show, Houston

$6 or Free with All Access Pass
You can purchase tickets online at Aurora Picture Show

Program 1: Children, Young & Grown | Saturday, May 19, at 8pm

Children try to find safety from a harsh world, whether it's the little boy practicing his karate moves in Siu Ta's Kata Practice, or the children in Tze Chun's Windowbreaker, who build traps to protect their home. Vivid imaginations take hold during the summer in Suzi Yoonessi's whimsical Dear Lemon Lima and in Kimi Takesue's The Summer of the Serpent.

Two films also explore the relationships between parents and their grown children. A mother and son take a final journey together in Jae-Ho Chang's The Last Vacation while a movie director confronts his father in Lead Role: Father by PJ Raval.

Program 2: Best of Slant & More! | Sunday May 20, at 3pm

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Dragon of Love by Doan La

Get ready for some of Slant's greatest hits! In celebration of a Best of Slant DVD compilation to be released later this summer, this program includes a few audience favorites from past years of the festival. Wes Kim's Profiles in Science takes a quirky look at one man's unwavering pursuit of scientific knowledge. A pie maker tries to explain himself in Nobu Ailman's faux documentary I Pie (A Love Story). Maritess V.S. the Superfriends, an animation by Dino Ignacio, tells the plight of the Superfriends' Filipina maid. And Doan La's comedy Dragon of Love chronicles one man's dating disaster when he meets the woman of his dreams.

But wait, there's more! Sunday's program will also feature the Texas premieres of three films: Josh Kim's The Police Box, a charming story of romantic crushes; Frank Yeean Chan's cycling adventure Russian Hill Roulette; and Ling Liu's Officer Tsukamoto, a documentary about the unsolved 1970 murder of a police officer.

Contributor: 

Melissa Hung

Founding Editor

Melissa Hung is the founding editor of Hyphen. She was the editor in chief for the magazine's first five years and went on to serve in many other leadership roles on the staff and board for more than a decade. She is a writer and freelance journalist. Her essays and reported stories have appeared in NPR, Vogue, Pacific Standard, Longreads, and Catapult, among others. She grew up in Texas, the eldest child of immigrants. Find her on Twitter and Instagram.