For six days in October each year, a marvelous thing happens: theaters all over the county screen high-quality films from throughout the Pacific Rim for free. Notable not just for its affordability—the only admission price all week is for the benefit on the final night, and that’s but a modest fee—but for the care with which it’s juried and presented, the Pac Rim Film Fest offers a superb sampling of cinema from what is arguably, at this moment, the world’s most culturally dynamic region. This year’s festival includes selections from China, India, South Korea, Mexico, the United States and Japan. And that’s just the biggies. Check these pages in early October for festival details.
THE PACIFIC RIM FILM FESTIVAL runs Friday-Wedneday, Oct. 14-19, at the Del Mar Theatre, Rio Theatre and the Cabrillo College Watsonville Center.
