Street Movies! @ Hawthorne Cultural Center

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Street Movies! presented by PNC Arts Alive
August 3, 2011 - August 27, 2011

Join Scribe, Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association Coalition (SEAMAAC) and the Hawthorne Cultural Center for Street Movies! featuring short films about youth, music spoken work and the immigrant experience.

Friday, August 12, 2011
SOUTH PHILADELPHIA
Hosts: Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association Coalition (SEAMAAC) and Hawthorne Cultural Center
Location: Hawthorne Cultural Center
12th & Carpenter Streets
With opening performance by popular Philly hip hop group the AZI FELLAS!

Dandiggity: Corner Shop Poet
by Viet Nam Nguyen
A 29-year-old Vietnamese American spoken word artist living in San Jose, California tries to balance his time between an untraditional job and being a poet as he works seven days a week at the Corner Stop Shop. (2010, 10 min) Philadelphia Premiere

Lovely to Me (Immigrant Mother)
by Gary San Angel
New York based artist Taiyo Na’s heartfelt song Lovely to Me (Immigrant Mother) is a brings together community in this heartfelt film fusing music video with real life documentary footage. (2010, 10 min)

The Fading Light (Theo Hướng Đèn Mà Đi)
by Thien Do
The past and present collide when a man revisits his childhood home in Vietnam for the first time since his family fled the country by boat. (Vietnam, USA, 2008 23 min) Philadelphia Premiere

I Ain't Leavin'
by Streetside Productions (East Bay Asian Youth Center)
Despite their immigrant parents’ fight to reform the tenements they lived in, Cambodian American youth in East Oakland, CA discover that they are no longer welcome in the place they have always considered “home”. (2008, 19:14 mins)