ATTENTION Asian film lovers and aspiring filmmakers! If you are in New York City this weekend, you should definitely check out the “So Forgivably Young” film event hosted by Ran Tea House in Brooklyn! Six narrative shorts on the themes of youth, memory, love and choice made by Chinese film students in the U.S. and China will be showcased with directors and crew presenting.
The event is co-presented by Ran Tea House and Huayi Brothers New Media Channel [YouTube Channel]. Fan He, Director of International Operations of Huayi Brothers Media Group, will be in attendance and speak about their new media distribution platform and the opportunity it provides for emerging filmmakers.
[EVENT DETAILS]
Time: 2:00-4:00pm, Sunday, May 26
Venue: Ran Space, 269 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, New York (Take the L Train to Bedford Ave.)
Tickets: $5 suggested donation
Directors or cast/crew will be present for Q&A.
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[Films that will be screening]
MORNING SONG – dir. Fan He (The City College of New York) | 6 min | 2013
Deaf cellist Chen has been striving for admission into an orchestra. Although his techniques qualify as professional, he is not courageous enough to go to the audition. Thanks to the support of his girlfriend Ly, Chen summons the guts to embrace the challenge, only to find that Ly has kept a secret of her own…VISION IN THE MOONLIGHT – dir. Layla Zhuqing Ji (Columbia University) | 11 min | 2013
A blind Chinese young artist who wants to study piano in the U.S. is going to a visa interview that will force her to make a difficult decision. Official Selection of New York City International Film Festival (June 13-20, 2013) and 2013 Manhattan Film Festival (June 20th-30th, 2013)AN EARLY SUMMER – dir. Lu Lu (University of Southern California) | 17 min | 2013
A romance/drama about two Chinese youths whose lives intersect in Los Angeles. Ming, a recent graduate is struggling to find a job when he is asked to help Ann, a friend from his youth, to adjust to her new life in L.A. As the relationship between Ming and Ann grows, his return to China looms in the future. Together, Ann and Ming must be honest with themselves and make a choice. USC MFA Thesis film. Winner of DGA Student Film AwardCOMPOSITION LIFE – dir. Zongwei Li (Xiamen University) | 14 min | 2012
When you are little, you get bored of writing compositions with given topics, and dream of growing up to break out of those confines. But when you grow up, the topics or propositions do not go away in your life. Will you fight, or will you be content with the status quo?INVERSE LOVE – dir. Dino Xiao Hu (University of Miami) | 19 min | 2013
Mu Mu discovered her husband’s stealthy love affair and tried to save this marriage by inviting the other woman out to a cafe for a talk. However, this conversation unexpectly evoked a college memory that has kept haunting her since college… Official selection of the 16th Annual Canes Film Festival and The 20th Beijing College Student Film FestivalSPRING EQUINOX – dir. Yinuo Wang (Columbia University) | 13 min | 2013
In 1990s China, Haijing, a quiet 14-year-old girl living with her single mother and rebellious sister, is thrown into a whirlwind of emotions upon a new teacher’s arrival at her authoritarian school.
[Banner picture from INVERSE LOVE]
– Lucy Yang, AOF Intern
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