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Hello Filmmaker Friends,

The San Diego Asian Film Foundation (SDAFF) is currently in it's call for entries period for the 12th San Diego Asian Film Festival, October 20-28, 2011. Submit today for consideration for one of the largest North American showcases of Pan Asian cinema. We're currently seeking competitive entries in the following categories: narrative feature, narrative short, documentary feature, documentary short, and animation.

Regular Deadline: May 2, 2011
Late Deadline: May 20, 2011

For more information, please visit www.sdaff.org | entries@sdaff.org | 619.400.5911

Direct Link: http://sdaff.org/festival/filmmakers.php

By Greg Pak, editor-in-chief

The shocking change is in effect! AsianAmericanFilm.com has turned into APApop.com, which combines AsianAmericanFilm.com and its sister site AsianAmericanComics.com into a single entity.

What does this mean for you as a reader or contributor? Just about everything you liked about AsianAmericanFilm.com stays the same -- you'll even continue to be able to access the site via www.AsianAmericanFilm.com and, if you're a contributor, all your login information remains the same.

But the site's expanding its coverage a bit to include other aspects of Asian Pacific American pop culture. Given my professional interests, film and comics will probably get the most attention, but the expanded mandate will allow for attention to literature, theater, music, and whatever else catches my eye.

As always, I'll give first priority to Asian American cultural product, although work from Asia may also get a mention here and there.

In the next few days, you'll be able to access the site via www.apapop.com. But the www.asianamericanfilm.com URL will continue to work, and www.asianamericancomics.com will also eventually point to the site.

If you have comments, feel free to tweet them to me at @apa_pop, the site's twitter account.

Many thanks and more soon!

Some exciting site news -- Tak Toyoshima, the cartoonist behind "Secret Asian Man," is coming on board as a blogger right here at AsianAmericanComics.com. Come back soon for more -- in the meantime, check out Tak's "Secret Asian Man" site.