Applied Materials Pacific Basin Showcase

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Although it takes a film like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to whet the mainstream moviegoer's appetite for cinema from the Eastern world, few audiences ever get a chance to see more of the ground-breaking maverick work being produced by contemporary Asian filmmakers. The Pacific Basin Showcase, presented by Applied Materials, draws some much-needed attention to the work of these undiscovered artists by spotlighting films from all over Asia and the Pacific. These films run the breadth from heart-wrenching (China's Cala, My Dog! and Sri Lanka's August Sun) to poignant (Japan's The Man Who Wipes Mirrors) to romantic (China's When Ruoma Was Seventeen and Korea's Rewind) and represent the wide spectrum of subject matter explored by today's Asian mavericks.