San Francisco Burmese Film Festival
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Saturday – December 3, 2011:
Time: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
A newly released Burmese (Myanmar) feature film recently showing at the theaters in home country Myanmar/Burma, “Adam, Eve and Dasa”, “The Floating Tomatoes,” a documentary directed by Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, and “Crossing Salween” will be shown at the San Francisco Burmese Film Festival in the August Coppola Theater in San Francisco State University on December 3, 2011. The festival will be a one-day event organized by the Burmese Youth Association (BYA).
Coppola Theater
Room#101, Fine Arts Building
San Francisco State University
1750, Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132
Trailers and Clips:
“Adam, Eve and Dasa (အာဒမ္ရယ္ ဧ၀ရယ ္ဒသရယ္)”
“The Floating Tomatoes (အင္းသီး)"
“Crossing Salween (“ျမစ္သံလြင္အား ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္၍ )”
http://www.redragefilms.com/page.php?intPageID=25
http://www.livingfilms.com/projects/feature-films/crossing-salween/
More Programs and Information:
Adam, Eve and Dasa (အာဒမ္ရယ္ ဧ၀ရယ ္ဒသရယ္) – Burmese Drama
DVD | 135 min | Burmese w/English subtitle | 2011
Adam, Eve and Dasa (အာဒမ္ရယ္ ဧ၀ရယ ္ဒသရယ္) – Burmese Drama
DVD | 135 min | Burmese w/English subtitle | 2011
Director & Screen Play: Wyne
Producer: Heart ‘N’ Soul
Writer: Ponnya Khin
Starring: Pyay Ti Oo, Sai Sai Kham Leng, and Thet Mon Myint
ရန္ကုန္၊ စကၤာပူ စသည့္ ၿမိဳ႕ႀကီးမ်ား၌ ပြဲၾကည့္ပရိသတ္မ်ား ႀကိတ္ႀကိတ္တိုး အားေပးခဲ့သည့္ အကယ္ဒမီ အတြက္ ‘တစ္’ ေျပးေနသည့္ ျမန္မာ့႐ုံတင္ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ဇာတ္ကားသစ္ႀကီး။ ေျပတီဦး၊ စိုင္းစိုင္းခမ္းလိႈင္၊ သက္မြန္ျမင့္၊ ရဲေအာင္၊ ထြန္းထြန္းဝင္း၊ မ်ဳိးသႏာၱထြန္း ႏွင့္ စိုးမိုးၾကည္ တို႔ပါဝင္၍ အဂၤလိပ္စာတန္းထိုးပါသည့္ ျမန္မာ့ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ဇာတ္ကားႀကီး။
The movie, “Adam, Eve and Datsa”, is directed by Wyne, with starring famous actors: Pyay Ti Oo, Sai Sai Kham Leng, and famous actress Thet Mon Myint. It is a Burmese Drama movie depicting the conflicts and romance entangled in the lives of three people.
The Floating Tomatoes (အင္းသီး) - Documentary
DVD | 30 min | Burmese w/English subtitle | 2010
Director: Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi
Producers & Writers: Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi and Mon Mon Myat
Dir. of Photography: Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi
Starring: Ko Thein Win, Ma Wine, Aye Chan Soe and Aung Kyaw Soe
ဒါ႐ိုက္တာ မင္းထင္ကိုကိုႀကီး၏ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အဆင့္မီ ႐ိုက္ကူးထင္ဆက္ထားသည့္ ျမန္မာ့ေျမေပၚမွ အင္းေလးကန္၏ သဘာဝအလွ ႏွင့္ အင္းထဲက မိသားစုတို႔၏ဘဝ မွတ္တမ္း႐ုပ္ရွင္။
Floating tomatoes is a 34 minute documentary by Burmese filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi. Water, “Floating Tomatoes” was filmed on the beautiful Inle lake known for its Intha people and their unique leg rowing tradition. Surrounded by mountains, the fresh water lake is situated at 2900 feet and is the second largest lake in Myanmar.
The film’s cinematography is simply gorgeous. It is a poignant portrait of a hard working fisherman/farmer family with two children who farm tomatoes on a floating garden. The film tastefully reveals the unique Intha subculture of leg rowing and floating gardens on the Inle lake and the life of an Intha family.
The film’s cinematography is simply gorgeous. It is a poignant portrait of a hard working fisherman/farmer family with two children who farm tomatoes on a floating garden. The film tastefully reveals the unique Intha subculture of leg rowing and floating gardens on the Inle lake and the life of an Intha family.
Crossing Salween ( ျမစ္သံလြင္အား ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္၍ ) – short film
DVD | 20 min | Karen w/English subtitle | 2010
Director: Brian O’Malley
Producer: Gary Moore (Red Rage Films)
Writer: Brain O’Malley based on a short story by Gary Moore
Dir. of Photography: Richard Kendrick
Starring: Thanawut Dum Kedsaro, Danai Tung Thiengtham and Ronnachai Mai Wijitto
ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ပြဲေတာ္ အသီးသီးတြင္ ေအာင္ပြဲခံခဲ့သည့္ အိုင္ယာလန္မွ ႐ိုက္ကူးထားေသာ ကရင္ကေလးငယ္ တစ္ဦး၏ ဘဝႏွင့္ စြန္႔စားခန္း မွတ္တမ္း႐ုပ္ရွင္။ (ကရင္ဘာသာ စကားေျပာ၍ အဂၤလိပ္စာတန္းထိုးပါသည္။)
Irish film producer Gary Moore said the film, based on a Karen girl who flees from the fighting in Burma, is a story that throws highlight on the reality of Karen life and the lives of Burmese in general.
The film star, 11-year-old Karen refugee Ronnachai Mai Whittio, or Mai for short, who Moore found through “street casting”––searching for talent among non-professionals to play the lead role, as happened with the casting of slum children in the 2008 Hollywood hit, “Slumdog Millionaire.”
The film star, 11-year-old Karen refugee Ronnachai Mai Whittio, or Mai for short, who Moore found through “street casting”––searching for talent among non-professionals to play the lead role, as happened with the casting of slum children in the 2008 Hollywood hit, “Slumdog Millionaire.”
The Sketch of A River Irrawaddy (ျမစ္တစ္စင္း၏ ပံုရိပ္ (သို႔) ခ်စ္ေသာ အေမျမစ္နဒီ ဧရာဝတီ) – A Photo Video Show
ျမန္မာျပည္ ေျမာက္ဖ်ား ကခ်င္ေျမမွ ဧရာဝတီ ျမစ္ေၾကာင္းတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ စုန္ဆင္း၍ ႐ိုက္ကူးထားေသာ ျမန္မာ့ဓာတ္ပံု ပညာရွင္ (၆) ဦးတို႔၏ လက္ရာ၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ပံုႏွိပ္ထုတ္ေဝ ၿပီးၿပီးခ်င္း ၿပိဳက္ခနဲကုန္သြားသည့္ ဓာတ္ပံုစာအုပ္ ဗီဒီယိုတင္ဆက္မႈ။
Photos from six Burmese renowned photographers who traveled down the 1300s mile-long Irrawaddy River to capture the breathtaking pictures of the nature and the lives on the river in an attempt to save Burma’s most beloved and most important river itself, the Irrawaddy.
အထူးအစီအစဥ္ - Meet & Greet
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ယေန႔နာမည္ေက်ာ္ၾကား လူႀကိဳက္မ်ားေနသည့္
“မင္းသမီးေလး “သက္မြန္ျမင့္” ႏွင့္ ပရိသတ္တို႔၏ အမွတ္တရ ေတြ႕ဆံုပြဲ”
Please join us for this special opportunity to meet with a very popular actress of Burma, Thet Mon Myint.
Contacts for Tickets:
San Francisco (415) 377 7966, Daly City (415) 722 4620, Fremont (510) 314 2340, San Jose (415) 577 6505 & SFSU Box Office: (415) 338 2467
General Admission: $ 20
SFSU Students: $15
Kids (12 and Under): $10
(Please Reserve early, Only 120 seats available. Proceeds from this Film Festival will go to the kids from the PAB School of Nu Po Refugee Camp in Thailand)
Movie Theater: VIDEO CAMERAS, CAMERA PHONES AND OTHER RECORDING DEVICES WILL NOT BE ALLOWED INTO THE SCREENING. YOU WILL BE CHECKED BY SECURITY PRIOR TO ADMITTANCE.
Co-sponsored and presented by the Burmese Youth Association (BYA), Network of Myanmar American Association (NetMAA) and Asian Student Union (ASU) of San Francisco State University.
