The Chinese Cinema Club, a collaboration between dGenerate Films and Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), is a movie club screening Chinese and Chinese American films on the first Friday of every other month.
The Club is a first step towards addressing the disappearance of cinemas from Chinatown, and its subsequent lack of public screening options. The aim will be to draw diverse movie-lovers and provide a regular space to gather, watch, discover and interact around cinema.
The series kicks off this Friday October 1 with Fujian Blue, Robin Weng’s acclaimed feature about reckless youths dangerously involved with illegal human trafficking in China’s Fujian Province.
Fujian Blue
2007, 87 min. Directed by Robin Weng.
This award-winning debut feature portrays two interweaving stories of youth crime and family crisis shed light on illegal emigration and human trafficking in China’s Fujian province.
Followed by Q&A with Patrick Radden Keefe, author of The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, moderated by Kevin Lee, VP of Programming with dGenerate Films.
Admission: $10/adult; $8/student & senior, Free for MOCA member. To purchase tickets, please emaileducation@mocanyc.org.
Purchase tickets to all three screenings for $25!
To RSVP for the event, please visit the Facebook Event Page here.
UPCOMING FILMS:
Take Out Friday, December 3, 2010, 7pm
2004, 87 min. Directed by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money. Followed by Q&A with the directors, Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou.
Oxhide February 4, 2011, 7pm
2005, 110 min. Directed by Jiayin Liu
Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait, with unprecedented access, of a working-class Chinese family.
To find out more about the Chinese Cinema Club, please click here.