The Veiled Commodity Blog

To the north!

Dickson — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:06:32 +0000

I am happy to announce we’ve been invited to the Anchorage International Film Festival that is taking place December 4th to the 17th. This will mark our very last film festival for 2009. We have a couple more coming in 2010 so stay tuned!

Next week we are screening in the 6th Annual International Artivist Film Festival. Screenings will take place at the Egyptian Theater and tickets are free! Check it out.

6th Annual International Artivist Film Festival
December 1st – 5th, 2009
www.artivists.org
Get tickets online or at the venue. Tickets are free this year!

Dec 3rd, 2009 (Thur), 9:15PM

The Egyptian Theater
6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028, USA

Why, thank you.

Dickson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:11:08 +0000

Huge thanks to Vancouver International Film Festival for having us! It was a pleasure to be part of a great film festival and in my home town no less. Thanks to Kelly Ruth Mercier at Co-Op Radio for having me on the Arts Rational show. Indie Memphis, Philadelphia Asian Film Festival, DC APA Film Festival, New York United Film Festival, you guys are awesome. Thank you all!

If any of you missed last Saturday’s screening of our film at San Diego Asian Film Festival, you’ll have a second and third chance. We are part of the short animation program and alot of these films are not to be missed. I’ll be at the screening on Oct 21st for the QA. See you there!

San Diego Asian Film Festival
Oct 15th – Oct 29th, 2009
www.sdaff.org
Get tickets online or at the venue.

“The Veiled Commodity” screening in the “Illusion of Life” Program:
Program Guide
Oct 21th, 2009 (Wed), 7:15PM with Q&A
Oct 27th, 2009 (Tue), 7:00PM

UltraStar Theater – Wells Fargo
7510 Hazard Center Drive
San Diego ,CA 92108, USA

VIFF Closing Night Gala

- Dickson

Dickson in FM

Dickson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:35:02 +0000

To all those of you in the greater Vancouver area, be sure to tune into”Arts Rational” program on Co-op Radio 102.7FM on Thursday night (Oct 15th) at 9PM. Yours truly will be on the show!

- Dickson

Life is an illusion.

Dickson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:08:29 +0000

That is what Shamu would say if it could talk. Poor thing. Anyways, we are heading out to San Diego for the San Diego Asian Film Festival. I’ll be there to give a Q&A on the screening on the 21st. If you see me (the asian guy with a shaved head and glasses haha) be sure to say hi. I just might buy you a drink.

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San Diego Asian Film Festival
Oct 15th – Oct 29th, 2009
www.sdaff.org
Get tickets online or at the venue.

“The Veiled Commodity” screening in the “Illusion of Life” Program:
Program Guide
Oct 17th, 2009 (Sat), 2:30PM
Oct 21th, 2009 (Wed), 7:15PM with Q&A
Oct 27th, 2009 (Tue), 7:00PM

UltraStar Theater – Wells Fargo
7510 Hazard Center Drive
San Diego ,CA 92108, USA

Repeat screening tonight at VIFF!

Dickson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:38:25 +0000

Thank you to all those of you that came out last night! The shorts program, “Road work ahead” will be screening again this afternoon at 4:00pm. If you couldn’t make it out last night be sure to check it out tonight.

It occurred to me last night; 12 years ago was the first time I set foot into Pacific Cinematheque where I saw my first VIFF film that marked my first film festival experience. I wouldn’t of imagined, over a decade later, I would be watching my own film at the same venue in the same film festival where I first fell in love with cinema.

Vancouver International Film Festival
Oct 1st – Oct 16th, 2009
www.viff.org
Get tickets online or at the venue.

“The Veiled Commodity” screening in the “Road Work Ahead”Program:
Oct 12th, 2009 (Mon), 9:15PM with Q&A
Oct 13th, 2009 (Tue), 4:00PM

Pacific Cinémathéque
1131 Howe St.
Vancouver, BC, CANADA

VIFF Badge

At the venue

- Dickson

We are international.

Dickson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:05:09 +0000

This is going to be the 2nd time that The Veiled Commodity will be screened outside of USA. Yes, the film is going to be screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival! I’ll see you there fellow Canucks!

Vancouver International Film Festival
Oct 1st – Oct 16th, 2009
www.viff.org
Get tickets online or at the venue.

“The Veiled Commodity” screening in the “Road Work Ahead”Program:
Oct 12th, 2009 (Mon), 9:15PM with Q&A
Oct 13th, 2009 (Tue), 4:00PM

Pacific Cinémathéque
1131 Howe St.
Vancouver, BC, CANADA

Watch some great films this weekend!

Dickson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:04:14 +0000

We are getting so much east coast love! Makes me want to go east.

This weekend we are screening at The Philadelphia Asia American Film Festival and New York United Film Festival. To all my friends over there, show some love, go watch our film!

Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival
Oct 9th – Oct 11th, 2009
www.phillyasianfilmfest.org
Get tickets online or at the venue.

“The Veiled Commodity” opening for the feature film “A Village Called Versailles”:
Oct 10th, 2009 (Sat), 7:00PM

Asian Arts Initiative
1219 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA

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New York United Film Festival
Oct 8th – Oct 14th, 2009
www.theunitedfest.com/newyork
Get tickets online or at the venue.

“The Veiled Commodity” opening for the feature film “The Quantum Tamers: Reavealing Our Weird and Wired Future”:
Oct 11th, 2009 (Sun), 3:45PM

Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003, USA

This Wednesday: D.C. Asian Pacific American Film Festival

Dickson — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:00:43 +0000

For those of you in the DC area, The Veiled Commodity is screening at the DC APA Film Festival. We are screening in the shorts program with other amazing films. Of course, the rest of the lineup is not to be missed as well. Have fun!

D.C. Asian Pacific American Film Festival
Oct 1st – Oct 10th, 2009
www.apafilm.org
Get tickets online or at the venue.

“The Veiled Commodity” screening in the Shorts Program:
Oct 7th, 2009 (Wed), 7:00PM

Goethe Institut
812 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001, USA

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Bass from Dickson Chow on Vimeo.

Randomly caught on camera in Central Park, NYC.

Triple Screening this Saturday!

Dickson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:24:24 +0000

This Saturday is huge! We have three screenings happening this week on the 19th. Mark your calendars, bring a date. If our film makes your date cry, then offer your should for them to lean on. Angry? Offer yourself as a punching bag. I wouldn’t quite call the latter “intimate” but either way, you can’t lose.

PS. Big thanks to SF Shorts again for selecting our film. For those of you that came out on Saturday night, thank you. San Francisco is awesome.

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Big Bear Lake International Film Festival
Sept 18th – Sept 24th, 2009
www.bigbearlakefilmfestival.com

“The Veiled Commodity”screening:
Sept 19th, 2009 (Sat), 11:00AM

Performing Arts Center
Main Theater
39707 Big Bear Blvd
Big Bear Lake, CA 92315, USA
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Filmanthropy Festival
Sept 19th, 2009
www.filmanthropyfestival.com
Get tickets online or at the venue.

“The Veiled Commodity” screening in the Shorts Film Program #2:
Sept 19th, 2009 (Sat), 2:45PM

CINESPACE
6356 Hollywood Blvd., 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA

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Chicago United Film Festival
Sept 18th – Sept 24th, 2009
www.theunitedfest.com/chicago
Get tickets online or at the venue.

“The Veiled Commodity” Opening for the feature film: “Fowl Play: The Untold Story of the Incredible Edible Egg”
Sept 19th, 2009 (Sat), 2:30PM

Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.
Chicago, IL 60613, USA

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Jazz Park Central from Dickson Chow on Vimeo.

Randomly caught on camera in Central Park, NYC.

It’s September already?!

Dickson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:28:27 +0000

Hells yeah, we won Best Animated Short at the Bayou City Film Festival. Thanks for the recognition guys!

Wow, where to begin? First off, there are a a couple of upcoming screenings in the west coast. This Friday night, the film will be screening at the SF Shorts Film Festival. If you are in the area, be sure to come! Details below:

“The Veiled Commodity” screening in Program #3:
Sept 11th, 2009 (Fri), 7:30 PM – wtih Q&A session.
Sept 12th, 2009 (Sat), 3:30 PM

Red Vic Moviehouse
1727 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117, USA

Full schedule at SF Shorts.

SF SHORTS

If you are in the Chicago area, the Chicago REEL Shorts Film Festival begins this week as well!

“The Veiled Commodity” screening in “Something to Say” Program:
Sept 12th, 2009 (Sat), 4:00 PM

Film Row Cinema
1104 S Wabash, 8th Floor
Chicago, IL 60605, USA

Full schedule at Chicago REEL Shorts.

Now for the big announcement. Since the last blog entry, we have gotten into 9 more film festivals totaling to 32. Yes, thirty-two film festivals. The film is now part of the official selection at:

San Diego Asian Film Festival – San Diego, California

Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Washington D.C. Asian Pacific American Film Festival

Chicago REEL Shorts Film Festival – Chicago, Illinois

Artivist Film Festival – Los Angeles, California

FilmAnthrophy Film Festival – Los Angeles, California

Indie Memphis Film Festival – Memphis, Tennessee

Merging Arts Short Short Story Film Festival – NYC, Providence RI, and Concord NH.

Vancouver International Film Festival - Vancouver, British Colombia, CANADA

We’ll be doing more frequent updates in the coming weeks as most of these festivals either overlap or run back to back. Its going to be an exciting month! Be safe!

Randomly caught on camera in San Francisco