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Justin Zhu (right) of Stand with Asian Americans helped organize the free screening of "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" in Emeryville. 

Hundreds of Bay Area residents, many of them kids and their families, were expected to watch free screenings of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” this weekend as part of a community-led effort to promote visibility and representation of As

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Lissette Feliciano felt like a failure.

The San Francisco-born actress, writer and director had been trying to make it in the industry for years, but it didn’t seem like her career was going anywhere. She worried, too, that she’d failed one of her bi

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Romal Mitr, a Dublin high school junior, will give cash prizes to Bay Area youth 13 and younger who take the top slots at her environmental film festival. 

BAY AREA, CA — An East Bay high school student who recently began accepting submissions for a new youth environmental film festival was tapped to give a TEDx Talk about the power of film to fight climate change.

Quarry Lane School junior and filmmake

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Cary Joji Fukunaga admits he’s a little exhausted as he appears on a video chat during the U.S. press day for the latest James Bond film, “No Time to Die.”

The Bond circus can do that to people. He talked from New York, where he purchased his first p

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Ben Fong-Torres’ office bears all the markings of his life as a walking, talking rock ‘n’ roll encyclopedia. A wall of CDs stacked top to bottom, arranged alphabetically, stands adjacent to a wall of books. Scattered around are rock ephemera: vintag

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There are Bay Area movies and then there are Bay Area movies.

Plenty of iconic movies have been shot here, from “Vertigo” to “Bullitt” to, in part, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” But then there are the movies that only could have been

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Late actor Chadwick Boseman crouches in the arch of a wall inset 

Chadwick Boseman’s legacy will continue to loom large: Howard University and Netflix have established a $5.4 million scholarship in the name of the late actor and awarded it to four students at his alma mater.

The university and the streaming giant s

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Ten years ago, Philip Wang and Cathy Nguyen shot a breakup scene on a park bench in South Pasadena for “Strangers, Again,” a short film by Wang’s production company and YouTube channel, Wong Fu Productions.

The 16-minute story about how a relationshi

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Saying that “a strike would effectively shut down California state film and television production,” IATSE has told California lawmakers that “it is both outrageous and immoral that the studios oppose basic worker rights, an opposition that may lead

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