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FIRST BROADCAST: MARCH 6, 2010

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CINEPOD's Chanel Kong talks to Chi-hui Yang, Director of the San Francisco International Film Festival which runs from March 11 - 21, 2010. Yang talks about some of this year's offerings including new works by Hong Sang-soo, CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH by Lu Chuan, exciting films from Thailand, and documentaries from the Bay Area's own Asian American filmmakers.
 

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AGRARIAN UTOPIA from Thailand

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Yang also explains some of this year's retrospective works - a special tribute to Filipino film master Lino Brocka (1939-1991) and Kim Ki-yong's extraordinary THE HOUSEMAID (above), a neglected Korean masterpiece from 1960 now restored by the Korean Film Archive and Martin Scorsese.

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