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	Local APA Filmmakers Shine at Film Arts Foundation Festival By Justin Lowe Special to AsianWeek The Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema returns this week for its 18th year, featuring strong representation by Asian Pacific American artists, along with several feature-length documentaries of interest to APA audiences. Sponsored by San Francisco’s venerable Film Arts Foundation, a membership organization for independent media artists, the annual event focuses exclusively on Bay Area filmmakers. Maintaining the region’s reputation as a center for documentary production, non-fiction films dominate the festival’s programming. As documentary material, women’s pro-surfing pioneer Rell Sunn makes an ideal subject: an athlete, cultural activist and community-health advocate, Sunn personified Hawai‘i’s “aloha spirit” until her untimely death in 1998 after a 14-year battle with breast cancer... COMPLETE STORY...		The Best of the Asian Pacific American Bay Area (Feature) Over 100 APAs Elected to Office in Last Week’s Election (in National News) Filipino American Veterans March for Equity (in Bay Area News) Ultimate Diversions: Inside the Twilight Zone (in Business) Mark Chung: American Soccer’s Coolest Man (in Sports) Local APA Filmmakers Shine at Film Arts Foundation Festival (in A&E) Emil Amok: It Happened in Alaska (in Opinion)

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Li-Young Lee’s Lyric Lunch By Brian Kluepfel Special to AsianWeek Under the direction of former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Haas, UC Berkeley is presenting an all-star array of poets this fall in a reading series called Lunch Poems. This past week featured a reading by Indonesian-born Li-Young Lee, called by American Poetry Review “among the finest young poets alive.” Lee’s reading on a rainy East Bay afternoon nonetheless filled the Morrison Library on the Berkeley campus with over 200 students and poetry lovers...

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