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Screening: Americaville
The USC U.S.-China Institute and the USC East Asian Studies Center present a screening of Americaville. Followed by Q&A with Director Adam James Smith.
When:
January 16, 2020 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Where
Directed by Adam James Smith, January 2020 release, 80 minutes
Hidden among Beijing’s northern mountain range, a replica of the Wyoming town of Jackson Hole promises to deliver the American dream to its several thousand Chinese residents. In Americaville, Annie Liu escapes China’s increasingly uninhabitable capital city to pursue happiness, freedom, romance, and spiritual fulfillment in Jackson Hole; only to find the American idyll harder to attain than what was promised to her.
About the director:
Adam James Smith is an award-winning, US-based filmmaker originally from the United Kingdom. His films focus on the expression of identity in urban China and include The Land of Many Palaces (2015) on the “ghost city” of Ordos, Inner Mongolia and Americaville (2020) on an American Wild West-themed community in Beijing’s suburbs. Adam holds degrees from Stanford and Cambridge, the latter of which he is currently an Affiliated Filmmaker at the university’s Visual Anthropology Lab.
This screening is co-sponsored by the USC U.S.-China Institute, USC East Asian Studies Center, and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
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Suggested Parking
McCarthy Way Parking Structure - $14/day
Enter at the Figueroa Street Entrance at McCarthy Way
McCarthy Way Parking Structure - $14/day
Enter at the Figueroa Street Entrance at McCarthy Way
Cost:
Free, please RSVP.
Phone Number:
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