response to web article on international/ucla/asia website

Counting our Blessings: Films about the Asia experience at the L.A. Film Festival
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=47352

Brian Hu starts his review, "The quantity isn’t there, but in terms of quality, the L.A. Film Festival has more than done its job this year when it comes to films from Asia." The quantity issue he refers to is there are 10 films out of 116 that are about Asians or Asian-Americans. That list includes the well known classic "The Seven Samurai" Of the 10, 3 are from China, 3 are from Korea, one is about Asian Americans and "there isn’t a single new film from Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, India, or Singapore."

The review gives a very nice guide to the film festival, especially for those who want to focus on the Asian perspective. He highlights other films such as "The Unforgiven," "Grain in Ear," "In Between Days," "All Tomorrow’s Parties," "Before Born," "Voice," and the Asian American "Undoing."

His biggest recommendation seems to be the series of films called 3 Los Angeles Filmmakers You Should Know. It features a director from 3 countries who were all exiled and now live in L.A. The 3 movies are "The Mission" (Iran), "My Mother and Her Guest" (Korea,) and "The Arch (China)."

He suggest another film festival that would be better in quenching one's thirst for Asia/ Asian-American films. (http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff06films.htm).