ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: The 23rd annual San Diego Asian Film Festival kicks off on Thursday with the documentary 'Bad Axe' at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
There will also be films from Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands. Plus an emphasis on Asian American and Asian Canadian films.
"This is a film festival that is largely founded and organized by Asian Americans," Hu pointed out."I think one of our goals is to give a platform for marginalized voices here in the United States. I mean, Asian Americans don't have huge visibility in Hollywood or in the mainstream media. So those filmmakers and artists who will go out there to put themselves on the screen, we want to give them a platform as well.
The festival will also screen an anthology film called"We Are Still Here" featuring filmmakers from Australia and New Zealand. But it is not your typical anthology film. "This one is a little bit more ambitious," Hu said."It's allowing filmmakers from New Zealand, Australia, Samoa to each have their own little short piece, but they're woven together in a way that they're overlapping. One begins and then stops halfway. Another one begins and then it resumes later on.
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