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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 hot-button topic and has been for several decades. But did you know, as the film begins with much older videos and photographs of the common American getting absolutely doused in DDT, that back during the Vietnam war, it was decided the...
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!