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| | LIVING THE DREAM / Madeleine Lim / Film teacher screens controversial and increasingly personal work |
 | | While Lim says her parents, over time, have done a commendable job of accepting her career choices, her home country has been less open. |
 | | "Sambal Belacan in San Francisco," a film about the lives of three Singaporean lesbians in the Bay Area, was accepted into the Singapore International Film Festival in 1998, but rejected by the government's censor board. |
 | | In "Sambal Belacan in San Francisco," Lim hadn't expected to put herself in as one of the featured stories, but someone dropped out, and she restructured the movie to accommodate the new direction. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/13/NSGJ7JTDIR1.DTL (669 words) |
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