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Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco Visual Art Program 舊金山中華文化基金会艺术家項目

October 2008 Blog Posts (5)

The Global Film Initiative Announces 2009 Lineup

North American and US premieres headline series

San Francisco, CA - Sep 29, 2008- The Global Film Initiative announced today ten award-winning narrative, feature films from Argentina, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Morocco and Mozambique that will headline the Global Lens 2009 film series.

"This year's lineup of films, from Central Asia to Latin America, is artistically strong and well balanced - it's one of our best yet," says Susan… Continue

Added by CCC on October 28, 2008 at 2:09pm — No Comments

Spring 2008 Granting Program Call For Applications

Feature-film Production Grants

San Francisco, CA - October 15, 2008 -In its continuing effort to promote original filmmaking by individuals from around the world, the Global Film Initiative is pleased to announce the Winter 2009 cycle of its feature-film production grants program.

The Global Film Initiative production grants are awarded twice a year, in Winter and Summer, to filmmakers whose work exhibits artistic excellence, authentic self-representation and accomplished… Continue

Added by CCC on October 28, 2008 at 1:38pm — No Comments

A Great Opening for Icons

Thank you everyone who made it out to the opening on October 23rd. There was enough food to go around...or was there? But I was glad to see everyone come out. People whom I haven't seen in a while. As well as meeting new people. That's what it's all about.

I've been to several funerals and memorials within the last year and it's so bad that it takes a funeral to get a lot of us old friends together. So just having this get together over my art… Continue

Added by Leland Wong on October 26, 2008 at 1:07pm — No Comments

The Art of Chunming Yu: An Omniscient View - Preston Metcalf

The Art of Chunming Yu:

An Omniscient View

Chunming Yu is an artist of two worlds. Trained in the traditional art forms of his native China, Yu has also been greatly influenced by traditions of the West, particularly those of European artists of the Baroque era. His paintings are a stylistic fusion of Eastern iconography, vantage points, and perspective coupled with a devotion to the subtleties and emotional power of light… Continue

Added by Chunming Yu on October 22, 2008 at 7:03pm — No Comments

food at the ICONS opening

Sorry fellas...I just got word that there isn't going to be as much food as I thought there's going to be at the reception on October 23rd. There's just not enough money to buy all those cheeseballs as promised. But you're all invited to join me afterwards for a no-host drink at Red's Place and then a scrumptuous dinner of Roast Pork at the New Lun Ting on Jackson Street immediately following the opening.

Actually, I had planned to do that on my own after the opening. But you're… Continue

Added by Leland Wong on October 15, 2008 at 5:00am — No Comments