Thank you to those that came to our screening at Holly Shorts! It is always nice to see your own work in a real theatre and this time back in our home town, Los Angeles. For those of you that don’t know, Holly Shorts, as the name implies, primarily screen short films. This is my first time at Holly Shorts and I have to say they made it very special. It was very refreshing to *just* watch shorts from up and coming directors but also established and well known DPs, directors and actors. Thanks for the experience Holly Shorts, we’ll see you next year!

Dickson and Nikolas (director for "The Small Somewhere") at "The Carpet"

Carmen aka "The Narrator" on the red carpet.

"The Narrator" and Julie Belle aka "The Composer" after the screening

Continuing with our adventure, we have screenings coming up in Michigan at the 1st Annual Grand Rapids Film Festival, in San Francisco at SF Shorts, in Chicago at the Chicago United Film Festival, and in Huntington Beach at the SoCal Film Festival! Details below and on our screenings page.

In other news, Julie Belle, one of the composers for The Veiled Commodity is having her own show. Check it out! Link!

PS I promise to post more pictures next time.

- Dickson

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Grand Rapids Film Festival
Aug 26th – Aug 28th, 2009
www.grfilmfestival.com
Get tickets online or at the venue.

“The Veiled Commodity” opening for the feature film “Skim Chicks”
Aug 28th, 2009 (Fri), 6:00 PM

Celebration Cinema North
Theater 9
2121 Celebration Dr. NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525, USA

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SF Shorts: San Francisco International Festival of Short Films
Sept 9th – Sept 12th, 2009
www.sfshorts.org
Get tickets at the venue.

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

Red Vic Moviehouse
1727 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117, 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
$10 admission.

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Socal Film Festival
Sept 14th – Sept 23rd, 2009
Get tickets online or at the venue.
www.socalfilmfest.com/tickets.aspx

“The Veiled Commodity” screening in Program #20: Movies with a Message – Dramatic Shorts [PG-13]
Sept 23rd, 2009 (Wed), 6:30PM

HB Central Library & Cultural Center Theater
Located at 7111 Talbert Ave.
Huntington Beach, CA 92648, USA
$4 admission.

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Our New York premiere was a huge success!

It is always inspiring to watch great films, but the feeling of having your own film be shown alongside them is beyond words. A big hug goes to the 32nd Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF)! You guys did an amazing job with the festival gathering some of the most unique and culturally diverse lineup of films. It was great meeting the crew and everyone at the festival. Keep up the awesome work and hopefully we’ll get to see you again next year. And thanks again for the iPod Shuffle!!

Dickson holding an iPod Shuffle. Hells Yea!

Of course, another hug to the other filmmakers and the audience at the screening (and also to those that couldn’t get into the packed venue). It was a pleasure meeting all of you! Hope to see some of you again in the future.

For those of you that couldn’t make it to the screening, the AAIFF announced additional screenings expanding its outreach effort to provide community screenings in Harlem, Manhattan Chinatown and Flushing, Queens.

Additional info: aaiff.org

Queens Library, Flushing Branch
41-17 Main St., Flushing, Queens
Saturday, August 1 @ 12:00 p.m.
Free admission

We would also like to thank the Indianapolis International Film Festival, Jersey Shore Film Festival, and Tulsa United Film Festival for having our film as part of your selection.

As we come to an end of a film festival filled July in the east coast, we’ll be kicking off August back on the west side with Holly Shorts Film Festival next week in Los Angeles, SF Shorts in San Francisco in September, and last but not least, San Diego Asian Film Festival in October!

Be sure to check our blog and our screenings page (link) for updated screening times. We’ll be posting more info soon. Thanks again for your support. Happy August!

Hollyshorts Film Festival
Aug 6th- Aug 13th, 2009
www.hollyshorts.com
Get tickets online:
hollyshorts.bside.com/2009/films/shortsprogram7_hollyshorts2009

“The Veiled Commodity” screening in Program #7:
Aug 8th, 2009 (Sat), 6:00 PM
Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theatres
8000 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90046, USA

And now, for something random…

A Short Lesson from Dickson Chow on Vimeo.

- Dickson

SF Frozen Film Festival was a great success! Aside from being screened at a great venue, packed theatre, and big attendance for the Q&A session; we also won this year’s Best Animated Short! Big thanks go out to the crew at SF Frozen, the other filmmakers, and the wonderful SF audience. You guys really made the festival special and fun. Keep up the good work and we’ll see you in 2010.

In other news, we just got word that the film will be screening at SF Shorts! That means we’ll be in San Francisco for the third time almost back to back! SF Shorts will be happening in September so stay tuned for more updates in the coming weeks.

San Funcisco we love you. Did I say San Funcisco? Why, yes I did.

Oh San Francisco from Dickson Chow on Vimeo.

Hello! We are happy to announce The Veiled Commodity has won the Best Animated Short award at the Detroit Windsor International Film Festival! Thank you to the people and audience at DWIFF ’09.

More good news. The short film will be screening at the Holly Shorts Film Festival at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 in Hollywood in August. The film festival runs from August 6th – 13th featuring many short films from around the world. More details on screening times and events coming soon.

The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival is fast approaching taking place July 9th – 12th. The film is part of the Best of Animation program playing alongside other awesome animated shorts. I hope to see you there. Details:

After a nice run of film festivals on the west coast, we are now heading back east. This time we’ll be having our New York premiere at the 32nd Asian American International Film Festival, New Jersey premiere at the Jersey Shore Film Festival, and Long Island International Film Expo. Slowly traveling back west, we have our Indiana premiere at the Indianapolis International Film Festival, Oklahoma premiere at the Tulsa United Film Festival and back to Los Angeles just in time for Holly Shorts Film Festival. Details below!

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Indianapolis International Film Festival
July 15th – 25th, 2009
www.indyfilmfest.org
Get tickets online: www.indyfilmfest.org

“The Veiled Commodity” Screening in Group 10 program:
July 18th (Sat) at 5:30pm
July 23rd (Thur) at 9:30pm

Indianapolis Museum of Art
DLH Theatre
4000 Michigan Rd.
Indianapolis, IN 46208, USA

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Asian American International Film Festival
July 23rd – July 26, 2009
www.aaiff.org
Get tickets online: www.aaiff.org

“The Veiled Commodity” Screening in the “Home is Where the Heart is” program:
July 24th (Fri) at 5:00pm
Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre St. (btw Howard St & Grand St)
New York, NY 10013, USA
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Jersey Shore Film Festival
July 8th – 19th, 2009
Get tickets online: www.jerseyshorefilmfestival.com

“The Veiled Commodity” opening for the Feature Film “The Cartel”
July 14th (Tue) at 8:00pm

Film Salon
JCC of Greater Monmouth County
100 Grant Ave
Deal, NJ 07723
(732) 531-9100

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Tulsa United Film Festival
July 31st – Aug 2nd, 2009
http://www.theunitedfest.com/tulsa/
Get tickets at Circle Cinema:
http://tulsaunitedfest.bside.com/2009/films/thelegendofbillyfail_tulsaunitedfest2009

“The Veiled Commodity” opening for the feature film “The Legend of Billy Fail”:
July 31st, 2009 (Fri), 7:00 PM
Circle Cinema
12 South Lewis Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74104, USA

Huge thanks to those of you that came out for our screening at the San Francisco United Film Festival!

Hopefully, we will see some of you at the other United Film Film Festivals as well.

More good news! We are in the San Francisco Frozen Film Festival! That’s right, two screenings in San Francisco back to back (almost). They have a great line-up of short films, features, and documentaries. If you are in the area, check it out. Maybe we’ll see you there.

San Francisco Frozen Film Festival

“The Veiled Commodity” Screening in the Best of Animation Program block:
July 10th, 2009 (Friday), 10:30 PM

Roxie Theater

3117 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

San Francisco Frozen Film Festival Poster

Das Boot!

- Dickson

We just got word that our film will be screening at the San Francisco United Film Festival. Yes!
Vinh and I will be in San Francisco for this one. See you there!

10th laurel

Thanks to the people at the United Film Fest.

“The Veiled Commodity” Screening: June 14th, 2009 (Sun), 6:00 PM

Roxie Theater

3117 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

$10 admission.

- Dickson

Yes, we are in Cannes. Yes, our film is at the Short Film Corner. What does this all mean? Well for instance, ALOT of people and better weather than Los Angeles.

Ah the French Riviera…

Boats!

Oh and of course, Festival de Cannes.

Vanilla Badges. Labeled Short Film Corner though...

“Hey, nice to meet you. What is your…oh…you have a regular badge..”

“Bitch.”

This is Vinh.

This pretty much sums up everything.

We found Chinese food.

Postcards! Get them at the Short Film Corner!

If any of you catch us at the Palais des Festivals, be sure to say hi!

- Dickson

The Veiled Commodity was honored with the Director’s Choice Award in the animation category.  Our thanks goes to the Rincon International Film Festival for the recognition.

http://www.rinconfilm.com/AwardWinners.html

BOOYEA!

The Veiled Commodity was recently screened at the Los Angeles United Film Festival.   It was a fun experience with the turn out composed mainly of our friends, family, cast and crew.   Our film was paired with the screening of the feature “Fagbug” which interested only a few people to view the screening.   As a result “The Veiled Commodity” had a smaller viewership.  We really enjoyed “Fagbug.”  It was a film that shouldn’t have been missed.   Thank you to all those who came out for the screening.  You guys really made it a wonderful event.

-Vinh

Q&A Session

Chatting with an attendee

Los Feliz Theater

That’s right, we got into the Delray Beach Film Festival!
Check our screenings page for additional screenings near you!

Delray Beach Film Festival

www.dbff.us

http://dbff.bside.com/2009/films/theveiledcommodity_dbff2009

5:00 PM     Wed, May 20

Venue:  Delray Beach Library

Delray Beach, Florida  USA