The Chinese Culture Center is proud to co-host a screening of a comedy which is as diverse as love itself, American Fusion. Yvonne (Sylvia Chang) is a divorced middle-aged Chinese immigrant who thinks her life is over, and she is doomed to spend the rest of her days as a slave to her large and eccentric family. Suddenly, romance enters her life and Yvonne gets a long deferred chance for true love. However, she falls for the last person a Chinese family would accept of, Jose (Morales), a Hispanic dentist.

The film features an all-star cast, including the celebrated actress, writer and director Sylvia Chang. Chang has acted in more then 90 films, including Eat Drink Man Woman, The Red VIolin etc. Since 1986 she has been directing and writing her own films, including 20:30:40 (2004). She received 5 awards at the Asia Pacific Film Festival in 1995 for Siao Yu, and a Golden Horse nomination in for Best Director for Passion in 1986. Esai Morales, of Puerto Rican dissent, and is best known for the playing Lt. Tony Rodriguez in the Emmy award-winning ABC drama NYPD Blue. He has also acted in Bad Boys with Sean Penn, in La Bamba, and in various independent films. He had most recently starred the San Francisco run of the musical The Mambo Kings.

The newly-released American Fusion won the audience award at the Hawaii International Film Fesival, and broke the festival record for most sold-out screenings.

Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 07:30 PM (PT)

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Location: 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108

The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is a major community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 to foster the understanding and appreciation of Chinese and Chinese American art, history, and culture in the United States. The facilities of the Center, totaling 20,000 square feet, include a 299-seat auditorium, a 2,935 square-foot gallery, book shop, classroom, and offices.

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