NYU’s Department of East Asian Studies Proudly Presents
 

Workshop with the Director | Friday, February 4, 2005, 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm

The Department of East Asian Studies at NYU
King Juan Carlos I Center, 53 Washington Square South, First Floor, Screening Room 100
Event open only to NYU students, faculty and invited guests. Free Admission – For reservations please RSVP to gsas.eas.graduate@nyu.edu or call 212.998.3829.

The program will include a showing of Xiaolian Peng's Shanghai Story. A discussion and workshop will be held following the film with Ms. Peng and author and film scholar Chris Berry of the University of California at Berkeley.

  

Biographies

Xiaolian Peng’s most recent film is Shanghai Story, which she wrote and directed, and which won the Golden Rooster (China’s most prestigious film prize) for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, as well as the Xia Yan Screenwriting prize. Ms. Peng is a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and holds an MFA in Film Production from New York University. She lives in Shanghai. Her other films include "Women's Story" (1989), "Once Upon a Time in Shanghai" (1999) and "Magic Umbrella" (2000).

Chris Berry is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He writes on East Asian cinema with an emphasis on China, and is the author of A Bit on the Side: East-West Topographies of Desire, translator of Ni Zhen’s Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: the Origins of China’s Fifth Generation Filmmakers, and the editor of Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes, among other works.
 

Film Screening | Saturday, February 5, 2005, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Pioneer Theater
155 East 3rd Street (at Avenue A), New York, NY 10003
Free Admission – For reservations please RSVP to gsas.eas.graduate@nyu.edu or call 212.998.3829.

The program will include an introduction by Chris Berry as well as a Q & A session with the director following the screenings.This event is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies, New York University.
 

Shanghai Women (2002)
Directed by Xiaolian Peng

Shanghai Women is the story of a family in turmoil, a mother and daughter at odds with convention, struggling to make a home of their own. Fed up with her philandering husband (Liu Jinzhen), a middle-aged teacher (Lu Liping) demands a divorce and moves with her lonely daughter, Xiaoxia (Zhou Wenqian), back to the traditional family abode ruled by her matriarchal mother (Zheng Zhenyao). However, a second marriage, for security, to the basically decent but nitpicking Li (Sun Haiying), also hits problems, leaving mother and daughter to make their own future together. It received the Audience Prize, and Best Director and Best Supporting Actress Awards at the Turino Women’s International Film Festival. This is the first screening of Shanghai Women in the United States and is presented courtesy of the Shanghai Film Group Corporation.

 

  

 

Red Persimmons (2000) Official website
Directed by Ogawa Shinsuke and Xiaolian Peng

This documentary started by director Ogawa Shinsuke and completed after his death by his student Xiaolian Peng, examines the harvesting of red persimmons and the people who have carried on the age-old processing trade. What looks like a simple sentimental paean to a vanishing way of life, turns out to have something more on its mind. (90 minutes) Red Persimmons is presented courtesy of First Run/Icarus Films.

For the New York Times review, please visit their website here.

 

  
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