July 11, 18, and 25
6pm to 9pm at the Alhecama Theatre
(215A E. Canon Perdido Street)
2025 AAFS OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
JULY 11
HOME COURT (6:00pm)
Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California whose life intensifies as recruitment heats up. (2024, 95 min)
Q&A with filmmaker Erica Tanamachi and reception will follow this screening.
JULY 18
NOBUKO MIYAMOTO: A SONG IN MOVEMENT (6:00pm)
Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement tells the story of a changing community through one of its most beloved storytellers as she reflects on decades of groundbreaking cultural work and a life that has bridged coasts, industries, families, and history. (2024, 57 min)
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Short intermission reception will take place between film screenings.
THIRD ACT (7:30pm)
As father and son, Asian American filmmakers Robert and Tadashi Nakamura use their shared medium to explore generational trauma, expressing previously silenced emotions. (2025, 93 min)
Q&A with filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura will follow this screening.
JULY 25
STARRING JERRY AS HIMSELF (6:00pm)
A family documents how their immigrant father Jerry, a recently divorced and retired Florida man, was recruited by the Chinese police to be an undercover agent. (2023, 75 min)
A special presentation (and Q&A) about recognizing and avoiding scams, and a reception, will follow this screening.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
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$5 Suggested donation / Free for SBTHP members
Seating is available on a first-come, first-serve basis (No RSVP required)
Free parking behind PANINO Restaurant (834 Santa Barbara St.)
Questions? (805) 965-0093 | kevin@sbthp.org
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SBTHP’s Asian American Film Series is made possible by the generous support of the George H. Griffiths and Olive J. Griffiths Charitable Foundation and brings AAPI-centered stories and filmmakers to the Santa Barbara community each July.
Previous Selections
2025 'A Night of Shorts'
Honor Thy Mother
Baseball Behind Barbed Wire
Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town
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2024
Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story
Nurse Unseen
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Finding Her Beat
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2023
Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066
Liquor Store Dreams
The Donut King
Chinatown Rising
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2022
A Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather
Waterman
Free Chol Soo Lee
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2021
Harana
Grasshopper for Grandpa
Sonzai: Japantown Santa Barbara
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2020
Flower Drum Song
Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings
Meditation Park
I Am Bruce Lee
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2019
Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority
For the Sake of the Children
ULAM: Main Dish
Bittersweet Roots: The Chinese in California's Heartland
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2018
Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice
Meditation Park
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the United Farm Workers & the Chinese Exclusion Act
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2017
Off the Menu: Asian America
Comfort
My Life in China
Allegiance
2016
Chinese Couplets
Documented
Transcending - The Wat Misaka Story
Tyrus
2015
9man
Harana
Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings
2014
Anita Ho
Linsanity
My Grandfather’s Drum
2013
The Cats of Mirikitani
I am Bruce Lee
Somewhere Between
2012
Dim Sum Funeral
Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story
Snow Falling on Cedars
2011
American Pastime
The Debut
The Joy Luck Club
The Slanted Screen
2010
Flower Drum Song
Forbidden City
Picture Bride
Sewing Woman