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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

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“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