WEEKLY VOLCANO: YOUR DAILY GUIDE TO THE TACOMA FILM FESTIVAL >>>

The 2009 Tacoma Film Festival runs through Oct. 8 at seven Tacoma venues. Ticket prices and venue addresses are here. 

Sunday, Oct. 4
12:15 p.m., Grand Cinema: Growing Awareness   

12:15 p.m., Tacoma Art Museum: Family Matter, No Good Reason, Habits, American Collectors

2 p.m., Tacoma School of the Arts: Psalm Five Oh Four, Carl Wilkens: An Individual Who Made a Difference, I Speak Soccer: a Documentary on the International Language of Pick-Up

2:15 p.m., Tacoma Art Museum: Family History, Finding the Bottom of the Sky: the Making of Air Check, Waiting for Hockney

2:15 p.m., Grand Cinema: Bunky Echo Hawk â€" Profile of a proACTIVE ARTist, I Am a Man: from Memphis, a Lesson in Life, Home, Welcome to Hebron

4:15 p..m., Tacoma School of the Arts: Cut From the Same Cloth, The Checkout Girl, My Mother’s Journey

4:30 p.m., Grand Cinema: Zeitnot, Atom Age Vampire

6:30 p.m., Grand Cinema: The Day My Parents Became Cool, White on Rice
White Rice     
Directed by Dave Boyle
Comedy (90 min) â€" In Japanese with English subtitles
Forty years old and newly divorced, Jimmy (Hiroshi Watanabe, Letters From Iwo Jima) shares the top bunk at his sister’s (Japanese Academy Award-Winner Nae) with his 10-year-old nephew while looking for a new wife. When his brother-in-law’s beautiful niece moves in, he begins an attempt to steal her away from his best friend (James Kyson Lee, Heroes) and sees his plans go hilariously askew. This late-coming-of-age comedy comes from a Tacoma Film Festival alum director, and will begin a major West Coast theatrical run in October 2009.

6:30 p.m., Tacoma School of the Arts: Comedy Shorts
Otis v. Monster, Clones Gone Wild, Cost of Living, The Mouse that Soared, Ten for Grandpa, Missing the Boat, Post-It Love, Schizofredric, Boutonniere, After You   

8:30 p.m., Tacoma School of the Arts: The Ends of the Earth

8:45 p.m., Grand Cinema: 3 Days in L.A.

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LINK: Weekly Volcano Tacoma Film Festival cover story