Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Connect China via Films: China as the Creative Inspiration for the New Generation of Filmmakers
USC Annenberg Chinese Students and Alumni Association and the Beijing College Student Film Festival-North America Sector presents a mind-opening conversation with some of the forerunners in exploring China for their narrative or documentary film-making undertakings.
When:
September 19, 2012 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Where
Join us for a mind-opening conversation with some of the forerunners in exploring China for their narrative or documentary film-making undertakings.
Special Guest:
BD Director from Youku Original, who is in charge of distribution
Panelists:
Yung Chang, Canadian filmmaker whose first feature documentary "Up The Yangtze" won the 2008 Taiwan Golden Horse Award. His second feature documentary "China Heavyweight", a dramatic story using Western-style boxing to explore social change in China, premiered at Sundance 2012.
Tom Xia, Producer/Writer of "Xmas Without China" in which he challenges his American neighbors to survive one Christmas season without anything made in China.
Ricky Qi, Director/Producer of "Under One Roof", about a family of Moso (摩梭: an indigenous people belonging to China's last matriarchal society) who must run a business with a Han Chinese couple near Lake Lugu.
Laurie Tsou, a M.F.A graduate from USC School of Cinematic Arts, who wrote and directed "A Loud Quiet" while attending Beijing Film Academy in China.
Moderator:
Tony Chiu (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158432/), Participant in Face/Off, Godzilla, Broken Arrow, Mission Impossible II, Red Cliff II, Red Cliff
Topics
What inspired them in the first place?
Does the “China" element help financially?
Where is the audience for such product?
What's the advice from the biggest online distributor?
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
(213) 740-0049
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