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APA FILM PRESENTS 15 AND HAPPY HOUR/VOLUNTEER DRIVE

For immediate release
March 29, 200515

APA Film will present a one-time only screening of “15” (Fifteen), a Sundance Film Festival Official Selection, at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD, on April 13, 2005, at 8:30PM. The screening will be preceded by a happy hour and volunteer open house from 7:00PM-8:30PM, where attendees can sign up to volunteer for the organization and the 2005 DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival.

Banned in Singapore, this feature length film sprung from an award-winning short by director Royston Tan:

“Twenty-six-year-old Royston Tan's social satire (developed from a multi-award winning short) has given local censors their biggest ever headache by focusing on Singapore's ‘problem boys:' the ones from broken homes, the ones who smuggle drugs, the drop-outs, those who tend to die young. But what could have been a grungy social-realist tract is actually a dizzying collage of teen experience. Keeping his scenes short and stylized, the director doesn't shrink from the dark side: he looks at teen suicides with black humor, confronts the reality of self-harm and admits that boys prostitute themselves for pocket money. His introductory voice-over says it all: ‘I only wanted to make a film of their lives, but in shooting it I've reconnected with a part of myself that I'd forgotten.’” -TONY RAYNS, SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL

Proceeds from this event will go towards supporting the 2005 DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival (October 6-15) and other similar events.

15
A film by Royston Tan
[Color, 95 min., in Hokkien, Mandarin and English with English Subtitles, Unrated with sexual content]15

Wednesday, April 13, 2005
7:00pm Happy Hour/Volunteer Open House (no ticket needed)
8:30pm Screening (one showtime only)

AFI Silver Theatre
8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-495-672015

This screening is co-presented with Reel Affirmations and the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

It is strongly recommended that tickets are purchased in advance online or through the AFI Silver Theatre box office. See www.apafilm.org for more information.

Asian Pacific American (APA) Film is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation, devoted to encouraging the artistic development of APA media artists and raising public awareness of APA media arts through an annual festival and other events in the Washington, D.C. area.

For more information on the film visit http://picturethisent.com/movies/15.html

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