USA,
1993, 27 min
Shown in 1994
CREDITS
- dir
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Michael Magnaye
- gga award
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Special Jury Award, Bay Area Film & Video: Documentary
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COMMENTS
Shown in Stolen Ground, a special program of Golden Gate Award–winning works by Bay Area Asian-American filmmakers. Michael Magnaye in person.
OTHER
This group of works by Bay Area directors raises issues surrounding Asian-American identity, politics and culture in new and perceptive ways. The wry documentary White Christmas explores the legacy of Spanish and American colonialism in the Philippines. A peripatetic visual tour of mega-malls, theme parks with artificial snow, family reunions and gay drag bars, the film offers a series of incisive critiques on a hybrid culture that has reconciled the sacred with the spectacular.
—David Eng
FACTOID #147
The Coppola clan (Francis, Eleanor, Sofia and Roman) is the family with the most filmmakers represented at the Festival. Films screened include Apocalypse Now (1990); One from the Heart (1990); Lick the Star (1998); The Virgin Suicides (2000); CQ (2002); and On the Set of CQ (2002). (And that’s not even counting onscreen appearances by cousins Nic Cage and Jason Schwartzman.)
