Event Reviews
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SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Lucky Star
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After falling prey to a tax scam, reformed gambler Lucky goes through increasingly desperate actions to try and make ends meet for his struggling family. So when we meet Lucky (Terry Chen), he’s already or more accurately still in debt up to his eyeballs, behind on payments for everything from his failing electronics repair stores’ taxes, to his daughter Jenny’s (Summer Ly) Chinese-identity school tuition payments, and oh so many things between. The opening...
Previous featured Events
SDIFF 2013 presents 12 Years A Slave
Based on a book written by a black freedman kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his experiences in the late 1800’s.
HIFF 2014 presents Hi-8 (Horror Independent 8)
Exactly as the program says it is, Hi-8 is an 80’s-style V/H/S-inspired anthology featuring 8 unique horror stories and a wraparound!
SDCC 2017 presents Stitchers
Stitchers is a breakout hit on the Freeform TV channel, featuring Kirsten Clark, a woman suffering temporal dysplasia (a fictional condition that prevents her from sensing the passage of time) who is recruited to a super-secret NSA program.