Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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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...
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SDIFF 2021 presents Val
A criminal on the run holes up in the mansion of a courtesan who holds some serious secrets of her own!
SDAFF 2017 presents ‘The Valley’: The true worth of a pearl lies within
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Saila Kariat Studio: Wavefront Productions Review Rating: 7 out of 10 Neal Kumar (Alyy Khan) thought he had worked hard enough to make a perfect world for his wife Roopa and daughters, Monica (Salma Khan) and Maya. They have the...
San Diego Film Week presents ‘A Life Lived’: For Love or Money?
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Riley Wood Studio: Not A Camel Productions Review Rating: 8 out of 10 The journey of a single dollar bill and the lives it affects, inadvertently and directly, along the way. We as collective humans have more in common with...