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| Contact: Zhijia Shen Director, East Asia Library zhijia@u.washington.edu (206) 543-5635 |
| Media Contact: A.C. Petersen Libraries Communications Officer acpete@uw.edu (206) 543-9389 |
More Information |
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Peng Xiaolian resume (pdf) and low-res photo |
Prof. Yomi Braester |
Poster and schedule of film festival (8.5 x 11 pdf) |
University Week Story - October 22, 2009 |
UW Libraries and UW China Studies Program present Chinese Film Week as part of the ongoing celebration of 30 years of U.S.-China Relations.
Award-winning film writer and director Peng Xiaolian will be present to introduce and discuss her films. Screenings and discussions take place on the UW Campus, are free of charge and require no reservations.
Peng's career reflects a versatility that spans the globe and has led to awards in writing, producing and directing films of a wide range of topics since 1987.
After the release in the U.S. and Japan in 1988 of Women's Story and Me and My Classmates, which received the Chinese Academy Award for Best Children's Film, she won a Rockefeller scholarship and left Shanghai for New York University, where she received a MFA in Film Production.
Women's Story led to her meeting Japanese documentary master, Ogawa Shinsuke, and eight years later this friendship led to her completion of Ogawa's last documentary Red Persimmons (2001) after his death. The film was warmly received all over the world.
Since returning to Shanghai from New York in 1996, Xiaolian has written and directed seven films, all of which have won domestic and international acclaim and awards.
Her Shanghai Series, consisting of Once Upon A Time in Shanghai , Shanghai Women , Shanghai Story, Shanghai Rumba and Kids in Shanghai present the different periods and social levels of Shanghai and the human side of its culture.
Shanghai Story took the best picture, director, actress and supporting actor prizes in the 2004 Golden Roosters; Kids in Shanghai received the Best Foreign Film Award at Hollywood AOF Film Festival; and Shanghai Women was honored with the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Turino, Italy Women's Film Festival.
Magic Umbrella (2000) was the first Chinese Feature Film Combining 3-dimensional computer-generated characters interacting screen with humans.
SCHEDULE:
Monday October 26
6:00-7:00pm - Grand Opening
- Two Women Film Directors - Prof. Yomi Braester, Professor, UW Department of Comparative Literature and Program in Cinema Studies
- Introduction to My Films - Peng Xiaolian
7:00pm screening of Shanghai Story (in Mandarin Chinese with English Subtitles)
Odegaard Undergraduate Library 220
Tuesday October 27
6:00-8:00pm screening of Kids in Shanghai (in Mandarin Chinese with English Subtitles)
Q&A with Peng Xiaolian, director; and lead actor
Odegaard Undergraduate Library 220
Wednesday October 28
6:00-9:00pm screening of Shanghai Women (in Mandarin Chinese with English Subtitles)
Odegaard Undergraduate Library 220
Thursday October 29
12:00-12:30pm Peng Xiaolian: A Tribute to My Father: The Making of Storm Under the Sun
12:30-2:00pm
screening of Storm Under the Sun (in English)
Q&A with Peng Xiaolian, director
Allen Library Auditorium
Friday October 30
6:00-9:00pm screening of Red Persimmons (in Japanese with English Subtitles)
Odegaard Undergraduate Library 220
Saturday October 31
6:00-9:00pm screening of The Doors (in Mandarin Chinese with English Subtitles)
Odegaard Undergraduate Library 220
Additional events scheduled as part of the ongoing celebration of 30 years of U.S.-China Relations include
-November 12: A symposium, "Past and Future of U.S.-China Relations" in collaboration with the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, The China Studies Program, the Global Asia Institute, and the University Libraries.
-November 5: traveling exhibit from the Consul General in San Francisco, "30 years of U.S.-China Relations," which will open in Suzzallo Library 102
The celebration kicked off with a June 1, 2009 presentation of books from the Chinese Government to the UW Libraries.
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contact: A.C. Petersen, Libraries Communications Officer
