First public preview night!

Join us in celebrating the start of the 10th Seattle South Asian Film Festival, presented by Tasveer. SSAFF is an 11-day film extravaganza that creates a lively, stimulating, and focused environment for conversation, education, and exploration of issues that face South Asia and its Diaspora.

For this preview event, a curated selection of shorts will celebrate the themes of identity, self-expression, and fashion on display in Bellevue Art Museum’s exhibit Counter-Couture: Fashioning Identity in American Counter-Culture. Film shorts will be followed by music and snacks.

Tickets here: https://goo.gl/QBCCp6
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PROGRAM
7PM: Welcome and Introduction, followed by a showing of favorite Clips from this year’s Seattle South Asian Film Festival.

Queen of Material (2 min) directed by Rajee Samarasinghe: A short procession of colorful fashionable fabric material and a mysterious woman lit by the sun. A paean to Kenneth Anger.

Blouse (20 min) by Vijayeta Kumar: A simple school teacher trying to find a woman who is same “chest” size as his wife, to bring her the blouse* as a gift. Blouse* is a tight fitted, short camisole worn under Indian dress called sari.

Kahani (12 min) by Sarthak Bhasin: Based on a short story by Daniel Wallace, the film is about a story writer (Yateen Karyekar) and his wife (Seema Rahmani), who is also the story writer’s muse.

Yari Road (20 min) by Samimitra Das: Yari Road is a universal story that examines the fine line between friendship and competition amidst the rat race of the entertainment industry.

9PM: Music – Anjuman Band – Afrocuban music band
http://kaliproductions.org/anjumanbio.aspx
Exhibition info:
http://www.bellevuearts.org/calendar/event/09_24_seattle_south_asian_film_festival.html

Cost: $5 for BAM members/$15 otherwise.
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Price includes access to the museum exhibition, screenings – all the shorts, our favorite clips, music and snacks. Please support it, champion and share it.

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