August 29, 2006
C-Town Summer Cinema is back! - DJ's and ethnic cool films in the heart of Chinatown
C to the Chiiinatown! C-Town Summer Cinema is an outdoor public event showcasing the finest local DJ's and ethnic cool films in the heart of Vancouver’s Chinatown. Launched in 2005 by Schema Magazine, C-Town Summer Cinema contributes to the revitalization of Chinatown through annual events that reflect the sensibility of Vancouver’s diverse youth(ful crowd!).
The 2006 event, featuring award-winning film EVE AND THE FIREHORSE (by Julia Kwan) and short-film SMILE AND NOD (Katie Yu), is co-presented by Moving Pictures and Paladin Show Services, and made possible through the generous support of the City of Vancouver, CBC Television, the SFU Business Administration Student Society and the Vancouver Chapter of the North American Association of Asian Professionals (NAAAP Vancouver)—don’t let the heavy business support fool you, they can be cultured too!
C-Town Summer Cinema!
Sunday, September 3, 2006 | 7:00pm start
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Courtyard (Pender & Carrall) (map).
**Great music with some of Vancouver's finest DJs begins @ 7pm. Followed by an outdoor screening of two cinematic gems by local Chinese Canadian filmmakers @ 9pm. **BONUS: Filmmakers & cast will be on hand to present their films & answer questions
**Fee: Free for Moving Pictures members, seniors & children ($2 Moving Pictures membership for adults)
More:
*Read Schema Magazine's exclusive interview with Julia Kwan @ the.tyee.ca.
*B.C. director celebrates Sundance win on CBC.ca (January 2006)
*Yu Gu's review of EVE & THE FIREHORSE from VIFF 2005 @ schemamag archives.
*Eve & the Fire Horse: Julia Kwan’s unforgettable debut, by Greg Buium (CBC.ca)
*About last year's C-Town Summer Cinema @ schema mag archives.
*Recap of EVE AND THE FIREHOUSE by Julia Kwan: Winner of festival awards including Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the film is about Eve, a precocious 9 year old born in the year of the Fire Horse, notorious among Chinese families for producing the most troublesome children. Caught between her 11-year-old sister's fantasies of sainthood, and cultural confusion and her own sense of right and wrong, Eve faces the challenges of childhood with fanciful humour and wide-eyed wonder.
*Recap of JUST SMILE AND NOD by Katie Yu: charming and hilarious short on cultural stereotyping. Matt is a 10 year old Eurasian boy who dislikes visiting his Grandpa because he does not "talk proper English". Until Matt stops by for Grandpa's birthday and his groovy disco-dancing grandpa greets him with an unexpected, "Yo, my main man, slide me some skin!".
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