By John Hartl, Seattle Times
What happens when a couple meet online and marry? Especially when the groom is older, white and obsessed with Asian women.
“Someone I Used to Know” looks at a reunion of old friends. Photo from SAAFF.
Do three Asian-American childhood friends have a chance of reuniting if they make the attempt in the Hollywood Hills?
Could NBA player Jeremy Lin be the most visible Asian-American star since Bruce Lee?
The 2014 edition of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival (SAAFF), which runs Thursday-Sunday, Feb. 6-9, at the Ark Lodge Cinemas in Columbia City, promises to answer those questions and a few more. A showcase of lesbian and gay films also is on the schedule, and so are programs with considerable local input.
Last year’s January festival, which drew hundreds of moviegoers to the Wing Luke Museum, had enough sold-out shows to demonstrate an appetite for Asian-American films that rarely get much conventional distribution.
Among the 28 films to be screened this year are “Seeking Asian Female” (5 p.m. Feb. 9), which deals with the marriage of a young Chinese woman and an older white man; “Someone I Used to Know” (6 p.m. Feb. 7), about a reunion of old friends; and “Linsanity” (6:30 p.m. Feb. 6), a documentary about Lin’s success as a Time magazine cover boy and a “Saturday Night Live” target.
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