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2016ChineseFilmFes/val
CaliforniaInterna/onalFilmFes/valGlobalConfuciusIns/tuteDay
Davis Chinese Film Festival Foundation Confucius Institute at UC Davis
2016 Community and Strategic
Partners
EastAsianLanguagesandCulturesDepartment,UCDavisDepartmentofCompara9veLiterature,UCDavisCapitalChineseFilmandTVFes9val,Sacramento
FilmBureau,theStateAdministra9onofPress,Publica9on,Radio,FilmandTelevision,China(SAPPRFT)
ConsulateofthePeople'sRepublicofChinainSanFranciscoInterna9onalHouse,Davis
Schedule
September24,Saturday,7:00pmHiramW.JohnsonHighSchool,687914thAvenue,Sacramento,CA95820
• OpeningCeremony• MusicalOperaNieErOctober2,Sunday,1:00pm*FREEOFCHARGE*Interna9onalCenterMul9purposeRoom,UCDavis463CaliforniaAvenue,Davis,CA95616• KeynoteAddress:“ChineseCinemawith
HollywoodCharacteris9cs,”byProfessorMichaelBerry
• Roundtable:LowellBlank(producer),NathanHendrickson(writer/director),JulieWayman(professorofCinemaandDigitalMedia),SheldonLu(professorofCompara9veLiterature),XiaomeiChen(professorofChineseLiterature)
• AwardCeremony• Recep9on
12:00-1:00pm 1:00pm UCLA Michael Berry
“ ” 2:99-3:15pm
UCLA Michael Berry, Lowell Blank, Nathan Hendrickson, UC Davis
Seldon Lu UC Davis Xiaomei Chen. 3:00-4:00pm 4:00-4:10 4:15-5:00pm
“Film, a Bridge between Chinese and American People: The Story of President Xi Jinping and Professor Milton Gardner”
Dr.Hangzhong,PhD Date: 2:00 PM, Saturday, Sept 24, 2016 Venue: International Center, UC Davis 463 California Ave, Davis, CA 95616 Sponsors: East Asian Languages and Cultures Department,
UC Davis Confucisu Institute at UC Davis Davis Chinese Film Festival Foundation
ZhonghanLiu
Dr.ZhonghanLiuistheauthorofthebookAh,Guling!.ThebooktellsatruestoryofthelateProfessorMiltonGardnerofUCDavisandhisspecialbondwithGuling,aChineseresorttowninFujianProvince.GardnerwasborninChina,wherehisparentsweremissionaries,andspentthefirstyearsofhislifetherebeforemovingbacktotheU.S.in1911.Towardtheendofhislife,heofenspokeofGuling,thevillagewherehewasbornbutneverrevisited.Gardner’swidow,Elizabeth,triedtofulfillhiswishbyvisi9ngthevillagebutwasnotabletofindit.Dr.Liu,onceagraduatestudentatUCDavis,livedwiththeGardners.Hehelpedtoiden9fythevillageasbeingnearFuzhou.Hefirstwroteanar9cleaboutthestory,whichwaspublishedinthePeople’sDaily.ThestorycaughttheeyeofthepartychiefofFuzhouatthat9me,XiJinping.XiarrangedforElizabethGardnertovisitGulingin1992andtomeetthechildhoodfriendsofherlatehusband.
Keynote Address: “Chinese Cinema with Hollywood Characteristics”
MichaelBerryProfessor,University of California at Los Angeles Date: 1:00 PM, Sunday, October 2, 2016 Venue: Multipurpose Room, International Center, UC Davis 463 California Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 Sponsored by East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UC Davis, Confucisu Institute at UC Davis, and Davis Chinese Film Festival Foundation
MICHAELBERRYMichaelBerry’sareasofresearchincludemodernandcontemporaryChineseliterature,Chinesecinema,popularcultureinmodernChina,andliterarytransla9on.Berry’sapproachistransna9onalandhisworkaddressestherichnessanddiversityofChineseartandcultureasithasmanifesteditselfinmainlandChina,Taiwan,HongKong,andotherSinophonecommuni9es.MichaelBerryistheauthorofAHistoryofPain:TraumainModernChineseLiteratureandFilm,whichexploresliteraryandcinema9crepresenta9onsofatrocityintwen9eth-centuryChina;SpeakinginImages:InterviewswithContemporaryChineseFilmmakers,acollec9onofdialogueswithcontemporaryChinesefilmmakersincludingHouHsiao-hsien,ZhangYimou,StanleyKwan,andJiaZhangke;andthemonograph,JiaZhang-ke’sHometownTrilogy,whichoffersextendedanalysisofthefilmsXiaoWu,Pla:orm,andUnknownPleasures.Hismostrecentbookisisafull-lengthinterviewwiththeaward-winningfilmdirectorHouHsiao-hsien9tledBoilingtheSea:HouHsiao-hsien’sMemoriesofShadowsandLight(inChinese,Taipei:INK,2014).Heiscurrentlycomple9ngamonographthatexplorestheUnitedStatesasithasbeenimaginedthroughChinesefilm,literature,andpopularculture,1949-present.
ForumRoundTableDiscussion
LowellBlankProducer
NathanHendricksonWriter/Director
Professor Michael Berry UC Los Angeles
Professor Sheldon Lu Department Chair of Comparative Literature, UC Davis
Professor Sheldon Lu Department Chair of Comparative Literature, UC Davis
