Event Reviews
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Current featured Event
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
SDAFF 2013 presents The Haumana
After their beloved Hula instructor dies and chooses as her successor a native considered to be a sellout to his own people, the boys of the Royal Hula company struggle to continue the dancing legacy of cultural generations.
SDAFF 2014 presents The Songs of Rice
A visual record of rice culture and its impact, influences, and observances of the people of different parts of Thailand.
SDAFF 2015 presents Crush The Skull
Some rather hapless and desperate thieves end up trapped in the house they intended to rob, which it turns out is the lair of a deranged serial killer!