SURROGATE VALENTINE
Dave Boyle | USA 2011 | 85mins. | Canadian Premiere

With star/musician Goh Nakamura in person!

San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura (playing himself) is barely scraping by playing live gigs and teaching guitar. So when a filmmaker friend asks him to teach guitar lessons to obnoxious TV star Danny Turner (Chadd Stoops) for his upcoming movie role, Goh jumps at the chance. While the oddest-of-odd couples is on tour together, things get complicated when Goh's high school flame Rachel (Lynn Chen) shows up. (Special Jury Prize: Dallas Film Festival / Best Narrative Feature: San Francisco Asian American Film Festival)

Guest Bio: Goh Nakamura Goh Nakamura is a San Francisco Bay Area based musician who writes ditties about parking tickets, impossible crushes and faraway dreamlands. "Armed with an acoustic guitar and an active imagination, Goh Nakamura strums to the beat of a processed drum machine, singing the minimum wage, dial-up connection blues. Like Neil Finn gone broke or a male version of Mary Lou Lord, Nakamura could be a patron saint for lonely code warriors with good record collections.” (Hyphen Magazine)

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