Category Archives: Screenings

1. Saratoga Public Library Screening Recap and Photos

   On Sunday, the Chi Am Circle club sponsored a screening of Autumn Gem at the Saratoga Public Library. Ninety people were in attendance for the screening, including Qiu Jin’s Great Grandnephew, Charles Fan, whom we first met at the Willow Glen screening back in March. Now that we’re back from our Spring 2010 Tour, we [...]

   Posted on May 3, 2010 in General, Screenings | No comments

2. World Journal Article About 5/2 Saratoga Screening

   Autumn Gem was featured in an article in today’s World Journal, San Francisco, newspaper. Check it out!

   Posted on April 28, 2010 in General, Media, News, Screenings | No comments

3. Interview on ICEPN Television

   During our screening at Kean University, Rae and I were interviewed by Lili Greene from ICEPN Television in New Jersey. Check it out!

   Posted on April 17, 2010 in General, Interviews, Media, News, Screenings | No comments

4. Stony Brook University Screening Recap

   The Spring 2010 Autumn Gem Tour featured 13 screenings in 18 days. Our final stop before returning to the Bay Area was at State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island. Saying goodbye to my relatives in New Jersey, we took an early morning train to New York’s Penn Station. We didn’t [...]

   Posted on April 10, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

5. Brookdale Community College Screening Recap

   The previous day’s double feature, coupled with the lengthy and hectic travel to get to New Jersey, left us pretty tired. But, we were now on the home stretch and nothing would get in the way of our completing this tour! Fortunately, the next screening at Brookdale Community College was extremely well organized. Linda Wang [...]

   Posted on April 10, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

6. Montclair State University

   A short while after our first East Coast tour, we got an email from Montclair State University asking us if we would like to screen the film. It was this email and screening around which we scheduled our Spring 2010 tour. By locking in the date early on, we were able to plan all the [...]

   Posted on April 10, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | 2 comments

7. Kean University Screening Recap

   Tuesday was a double feature day, with two screenings at Kean University and Montclair State University in New Jersey. We started our journey right after our screening at Wellesley College in MA. Professor Joseph drove us to the train station where we took the MBTA back to Boston’s South Station. We had several hours to [...]

   Posted on April 10, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | 3 comments

8. Wellesley College Screening Recap

   Following the screening at the Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association, we got a ride from Phoebe and Shaw over to Wellesley College. It was late when we arrived, but a key was waiting for us at the front desk. We were pretty tired after the screening in Newton, so Rae and I called it an [...]

   Posted on April 10, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | 2 comments

9. Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association Screening Recap

   After a great few days in Cambridge and Boston staying, we left Joe’s apartment to go to the suburbs of Boston for our screening at the Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association. GBCCA member Betty Chao and her husband picked us up from Joe’s apartment to drive over to West Newton, MA. One of the benefits [...]

   Posted on April 10, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | 2 comments

10. Spring Tour 2010 Update

    Sorry for the delay in postings. We’re about to leave for the airport to head back home to the Bay Area. Yesterday, we concluded our Spring 2010 tour of the Southwest and East Coast with a great screening at Stony Brook University in New York. We have a backlog of posts to write, which I [...]

    Posted on April 9, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

11. Boston University Screening Recap

    Following our screening at Goucher College, we traveled the next morning to Boston. My friend, Joe, whom I’ve known since our days together in the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program, is hosting us for the next several days. It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly six years since we last saw each other in-person; [...]

    Posted on April 2, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

12. Goucher College Screening Recap

    Our final stop in our Autumn Gem double feature yesterday was at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland. I definitely liked the name of that city, especially since it’s pronounced the same way — think how now brown cow — my last name is! We were greeted at the university by Steve DeCaroli, Professor of Philosophy [...]

    Posted on March 31, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

13. World Journal Coverage of Autumn Gem

    We’ve had a number of articles written about Autumn Gem in recent weeks as part of our Spring 2010 marketing. Check out the articles below (in Chinese): April 3 – Recap of University of Maryland, College Park, screening on March 30 Coverage of our upcoming Boston-area screenings Las Vegas Chinese Cultural Center announcement of supporting [...]

    Posted on March 31, 2010 in General, Media, News, Screenings | 1 comment

14. University of Maryland Recap and Photos

    Yesterday was a double feature of Autumn Gem. We woke up in the morning in Baltimore to drive to the University of Maryland, College Park, for a screening at Professor Larry Shinagawa’s Asian American Studies class. The weather was certainly a lot colder and wetter than our previous screenings in Las Vegas and Arizona; good [...]

    Posted on March 31, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

15. Red Emma’s Bookstore Screening and Recap

    After we had screened in the Baltimore area during our last tour, we got an email from Red Emma’s Bookstore asking us if we could set up a screening with them. While we weren’t able to schedule anything in our Fall 2010 tour, we made sure to contact them for this one. The film showing [...]

    Posted on March 30, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

16. Arizona State University Screening Recap and Photos

    We had a tremendous time in Arizona for our screening at Arizona State University. Three co-sponsors, the Asian Pacific American Studies Program, the Confucius Institute and the Chinese Language Flagship Program pulled out all the stops for us on our two-day stay in Tempe, Arizona. On Friday, we spoke at two of Professor Jeff Ow’s [...]

    Posted on March 28, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | 2 comments

17. College of Southern Nevada Screening Recap

    On Thursday, we held a screening at Professor David Wang’s Chinese language class at the College of Southern Nevada. The students who were taking the class came from very different backgrounds, and their reasons for taking Chinese were equally diverse. One individual had a dream of moving to China and setting up an orphanage. Another [...]

    Posted on March 26, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

18. UNLV Screening Recap

    Our Spring 2010 Tour of Autumn Gem got off to a great start last night at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The screening was held at the Marjorie Barrick Museum Auditorium / Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies (or MSM/HRC for short) and was sponsored by the Asian Film and Drama Club, Asian Studies [...]

    Posted on March 24, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

19. World Journal Article About This Week’s Las Vegas Screenings

    The World Journal published an article today about this week’s screenings in Las Vegas. Check it out!

    Posted on March 22, 2010 in General, Media, Screenings | No comments

20. UC Santa Cruz Screening Recap

    First off, apologies for the tardiness in getting this entry up. After the UC Irvine screening, I realized that I never wrote about the UC Santa Cruz showing that was held on January 25, 2010. This happened during the big winter storms here in the Bay Area. Fortunately, when we drove down to Santa Cruz, [...]

    Posted on March 19, 2010 in General, Screenings | No comments

21. American Association of University Women Screening Recap

    This past Saturday, we screened Autumn Gem at the Willow Glen Branch Library in San Jose. The event was sponsored by the local chapter of the American Association of University Women, an organization dedicated to advancing “equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research.” Marilyn, Linda, Mary, and the rest of the [...]

    Posted on March 16, 2010 in General, Screenings | 1 comment

22. UC Irvine Screening Recap

    Last week, Rae and I traveled down to Southern California for a screening at UC Irvine. Professor Hu Ying, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Literature, was one of our three academic interview subjects in Autumn Gem. We showed the film at Connecticut College and Brown University during our October 2009 tour, so we were [...]

    Posted on March 7, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

23. World Journal Article on Upcoming Las Vegas Screening

    The World Journal has an article on our upcoming screening in Las Vegas. Check it out!

    Posted on February 5, 2010 in Media, Screenings | No comments

24. World Journal Boston Article

    Somehow, we missed this article about the Autumn Gem screening at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center.

    Posted on February 5, 2010 in Media, Screenings | No comments

25. Berkeley Screening Recap and Photos

    It’s been a week since our screening at Rae’s alma mater. Apologies on the delay getting this recap and photo gallery out. We had another great turnout at Berkeley last Thursday. Thanks to AAS 121 (Professor Harvey Dong’s Chinese American History class), Asian American Studies, Asian Pacific American Student Development, Cal Taiji & Cal Wushu [...]

    Posted on December 11, 2009 in Screenings | No comments