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Two Short Films from Guam

in San Francisco Filipino-American

Film Festival

SAN FRANCISO, Calif. – A 10-minute short promotional film trailer for the upcoming Under the American Sun (Camp Roxas Film Project) and a music video featuring MUD, a San Francisco rock group from Guam, will be shown at the 2008 Sine! Sine! Filipino-American Film Festival this weekend.

The short films from Guam, premiering Aug. 22 and 23 at the Metreon Action Theatre in San Francisco, were directed by Los Angeles-based Chamoru filmmaker Alex Munoz.

The film festival, which features Filipino-American film writers, producers and artists, is a part of the Filipino-American Arts Exposition's (FAAE) mission to embrace culture through arts. The film event coincides with the 15th Annual Pistahan Parade and Festival and the First Annual San Francisco Filipino-American Jazz Festival.

Film festival line-up includes:

•You Will Remember Me music video by Indie Alternative Rock Band, LUMAYA

•Liham by Clarissa Munoz

•The Rift by Desciple

•Being Reel by Patricio Ginelsa

•Madelein the Small by Nara Denning

•Should've Known music video by Indie Alternative Rock Band MUD

•Under the American Sun by Alex Munoz

•Be His by Jeannie Barroga

•Abandoned by Matt Abaya

•I.A. by Robert Casipe

•Embarcadero Blues music video by Goh Nakamura

Under the American Sun is produced by Bernie Provido Schumann and directed by Burt Sardoma, Jr. Alex Munoz has expanded his role as supervising director and producer of the Camp Roxas Film Project.

Munoz, an award-winning filmmaker, supervises the Films by Youth Inside (FYI) program, which provides educational and creative options to incarcerated youth. Three FYI films produced by Munoz will premier at this year's Urban World VIBE Film Festival in New York City where Munoz won Best Short Documentary last year. The FYI films will screen alongside Snoop Dog's new documentary film, Youth Authority.

More information on the upcoming full-length documentary film, Under the American Sun, is available by visiting the film website at camproxas.com. The 10-minute short sizzle reel (promotional film trailer) on the Camp Roxas Film Project was funded by the National Endowment for Humanities through the Guam Humanities Council.