The eighth annual Asian American Showcase, presented by the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media and the Gene Siskel Film Center, runs Friday, April 4, through Sunday, April 13. Screenings will be at the Film Center. Tickets are $8, $4 for Film Center members; for more information call 312-846-2600. Films marked with an * are highly recommended. Following is the schedule through April 10; a complete schedule is available on-line at www.chicagoreader.com.
- Robot Stories
Not a Day Goes By
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Joe C.M. Chan directed this 1999 comedy about a guy in New York’s Chinatown whose mother dies and whose girlfriend dumps him. 80 min. Also on the program: Julie Kwan’s Three Sisters on Moon Lake (22 min.). Chan will attend the screening. (4:15)
A program of amiable shorts about farting, kung fu fighting, and other guy things. The best of the martial arts offerings–a 10-minute video called Three Card Studs (2002) by Roman Cortez, Chito Arellano, and Tracy Tubera–features low-budget light-saber combat. Gene Rhee’s The Quest for Length (2001, 15 min.) is a laugh-out-loud funny DV pseudodocumentary about one man’s odyssey through the realm of penis-lengthening therapies, in which the wry and likable Roger Fan consults a surgeon, a witch doctor, and an herbal practitioner. Eight more shorts complete the program. 77 min. (Jennifer Vanasco) Cortez will attend the screening. (6:15)
Sam’s Wack Short Film Program
Bollywood Hollywood
