Constructive Conflict: Learn to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable
Constructive Conflict: Learn to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable
Tue, Mar 28, 6:00 PM
The Commonwealth Club • San Francisco, CA
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SFGVFF :: Phương Thảo Trần & Swann Dubus — With or Without Me
By San Francisco Global Vietnamese Film Festival, a project of Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network
When and where
Date and time
Sunday, April 28, 2013 · 4:15 - 5:30pm PDT
Location
The Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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Description
Phương Thảo Trần and Swann Dubus’s WITH OR WITHOUT ME/TRONG HAY NGOAI TAY EM (2011 | Viet Nam | documentary | 80min) is an intimate and sensitive portrayal of two heroin addicts strung out at the edge of the map of Điện Biên province. Thi and Trung live in the lush, rice-terraced mountains of Việt Nam’s far northwest. Like many young men living on the main heroin route from Laos to China, however, they’re both addicts who’ve contracted HIV from sharing dirty needles. Both born in 1982, they began taking heroin in their teens. Now Thi wants to kick his drub habit, while Trung just wants to die. Both struggle with addiction and illness throughout the film, as they wrestle with the possibility of living or dying. WITH OR WITHOUT ME was made with the support of Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam (MCNV). The film has screened at film festivals in Germany and Italy.
Doors open 4:00 pm
Screening begins 4:15 pm
Screening ends 5:30 pm
Located at the Roxie Theater (3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103), this event is part of the San Francisco Global Vietnamese Film Festival, which centers the histories and imaginaries of those in Việt Nam and in the diaspora—through narrative, documentary, and experimental genres.
For a complete program visit sfgvff.wordpress.com.
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San Francisco Global Vietnamese Film Festival, a project of Diasporic Vietnamese Artists NetworkThe San Francisco Global Vietnamese Film Festival (April 26-28, 2013) is a biennial film and video showcase centering Vietnamese filmmakers in Việt Nam and the diaspora—a international vision reflecting a transnational reality. SFGVFF is the first and only festival of its kind in the Bay Area. With an Opening Night Gala ($10, 7:30-10pm, 4/26) at Artists Television Access (992 Valencia St), the SFGVFF runs from 2:30pm to midnight each day, April 27-28, 2013, at the historic Roxie Theater (3117 16th Street) built in 1909 in the Mission district of San Francisco. Guest director talks and Q&A discussion with Bay Area filmmakers Việt Lê and Tony Nguyen. Each screening is $10, and may include multiple films or events. We expect over 2,000 attendees. Sponsored in part by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Zellerbach Family Foundation, and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, SFGVFF is part of the 2013 United States of Asian America Festival. For a complete schedule or to buy advanced tickets, visit the festival website at: sfgvff.wordpress.com.
Our film festival is organized biennially by the core members and staff of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) is a San Francisco-based organization established to promote artists from the Vietnamese diaspora whose work in literature, visual art, film, and performance art enriches Vietnamese American local communities and strengthens ties amongst Vietnamese across the globe. Unlike many other Vietnamese art organizations, DVAN is international in scope, which enables the Vietnamese American community in the Bay Area to know Vietnamese artists from different parts of the world. We accomplish this mission through the sponsorship of exhibits, symposiums, publications, festivals, readings, and other cultural/art events. DVAN was formally established in the winter of 2007 and received fiscal sponsorship from Intersection for the Arts (through its Incubator program) in February 2008.