Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
Current featured Event
SDAFF 2025 : Magellan
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Set during the Age of Discovery, in 1504 famed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Filipino land of Malacca, plus his subsequent on-going attempts to capture and colonize said lands and people. The film is full of gorgeous views of the Phillipines, where it was filmed, the jungles and the beaches, full of life with Malaccan natives living their untroubled lives, until the advent of the Portuguese conquerors. Because, make no...
Previous featured Events
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : I am a Ghost 10th Anniversary Remaster
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Way back in the, it seems like now, far-off year of 2012, I attended a showing of H.P. Mendoza’s I Am A Ghost at the San Diego Asian Film Festival of that year. I was absolutely blown away, as was the audience, and you can still read my...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Between Goodbyes
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of a queer Korean adoptee and her reunion with her original family, sharing cultural misunderstandings, long-held regrets, and familial bonds with laughter and eventually, love. When the film begins, the Kim family and...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Out of Plain Sight
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A documentary featuring the on-going effects of the dumping of the insecticide DDT off the Los Angeles coast more than 40 years ago, to this day and beyond. The use of insecticides on crops consumed by the common person is a...