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.
The Los Angeles Taiwanese Film Festival, 2008
The Taiwan Film Festival features nine eclectic documentaries with a wide array of themes and topics.
When:
December 12, 2008 12:00am to December 14, 2008 12:00am
Where
The festival is quite eclectic. Themes of the nine documentary and feature films include: a new take on an old martial arts film where breakdancing replaces kung fu in a Taiwanese street dance/ breakdance competition; a glimpse at the lives of Chiang Kai-shek’s displaced soldiers; the estrangement of young lesbians in contemporary Taiwan; Asia’s “King of Pop” Jay Chou in an epic romance about a piano prodigy; the design and creation of the fastest running solar powered car for a 3,000 kilometer race in Australia; creating new spawning grounds for squids; a documentary about Taiwan’s Golden “Dance Age” of the 1920’s and 30’s; and Cape No.7, Taiwan’s nominee as a contender for this year’s Best Foreign-language Academy Award, and the all-time best selling film in the 101 years history of Taiwan cinema.
Program Calendar
Friday December 12:
07:00– 08:30 pm Opening beer and hors d'oeuvres reception, “An introduction to Taiwan Cinema” by UCLA Prof. Robert Chi (Free Admission)
08:30 – 10:15 pm Chocolate Rap 巧克力重擊 (Free Admission)
Saturday December 13:
09:30 – 11:30 am Secret 不能說的秘密 (Free Admission)
11:30 – 01:20 pm For More Sun 夢想無限 (Free Admission)
01:20 – 03:00 pm Grandma’s Hairpin 銀簪子 (Free Admission)
03:00 – 05:00 pm Viva Tonal 跳舞時代 (Free Admission)
05:00 – 06:30 pm Roundtable Discussion - “From Debut Features to Anything about Filmmaking in Taiwan” Berenice Reynaud ( Calif Institute of Arts), Leo Chen (University of Minnesota), Guo-Juin Hong (Duke University), Teddy Zee (Hollywood film producer), Chi-Yuarn Lee (film director from Taiwan), and Brian Hu (UCLA PhD candidate, APA editor). (Free Admission)
07:00 – 09:30 pm Cape No. 7 海角七號 (Ticket required)
Sunday December 14:
09:30 – 10:40 am Squid Daddy’s Labor Room 產房 (Free Admission)
10:40 – 12:25 pm Reflections 愛麗斯的鏡子 (Free Admission)
12:25 – 02:35 pm Do Over 一年之初 (Free Admission)
03:00 – 05:10 pm Cape No. 7 海角七號 (Ticket required)
05:10 – 06:10 pm Closing Ceremony; Special presentation by Cape No. 7 director Te-Sheng Wei; Keynote Speech “Around the Corner of the Sea: Cape No. 7 and Taiwan Cinema in the Age of Globalization” by Duke University Prof. Guo-Juin Hong (Ticket required)
06:10 – 08:00 pm After Party Reception (Ticket required)
***For more information, please call (626) 569-0692 or visit http://www.tufusa.org.
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