Category Archives: Screenings

1. Autumn Gem Coming To University of Texas, San Antonio

   Autumn Gem is featured in UTSA Today, the online newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio. We’ll be screening there on Sunday, November 13, 2010 from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm. Here’s the article, copied below. UTSA East Asia Institute to screen documentary on China’s first feminist By Kris Rodriguez Public Affairs Specialist [...]

   Posted on November 11, 2010 in General, Media, News, Screenings | No comments

2. Simon Fraser Screening Location Change

   There’s been a location change for our Simon Fraser University screening this coming Friday, November 12, 2010. The new location is at: Room 3200 SFU Woodwards 149 West Hastings Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 5K3 Canada. Enter from Cordova courtyard. Time: 6:30-8:30pm. Please RSVP and register online at http://cgi.sfu.ca/~hccweb/cgi-bin/OnlineRegistration/site/event/detail.php?id=165

   Posted on November 9, 2010 in Screenings | No comments

3. Pacific Northwest Screening Tour Underway!

   Our final tour of 2010 is underway! Rae has been in Oregon for the past four days, screening at Portland State University, Williamette University and Oregon State University to large student and community crowds. She’s heading up to Seattle to meet with me; I was in New York earlier this week for a business meeting [...]

   Posted on November 5, 2010 in Screenings, Travel | No comments

4. USC Screening Recap

   Our last screening on this Fall SoCal 2010 tour was held at the University of Southern California. I think the last time I was on campus was back in high school, when my school did a tour of West Coast colleges and universities. Our sponsor was the USC US-China Institute, with Clayton Dube, Linda Truong, [...]

   Posted on November 1, 2010 in General, Screenings | No comments

5. Bellarmine Forum at Loyola Marymount University

   Our fourth and penultimate screening was held at Loyola Marymount University. Autumn Gem screened as part of the 2010 Bellarmine Forum. This year’s focus was on Women’s Art and Activism and featured a weeklong series of panels, performances, and art exhibits. Our film screened on the opening day in the Ahmanson Theater inside University Hall.

   Posted on November 1, 2010 in Screenings, Travel | No comments

6. Association for Asian Studies Western Conference Screening Recap

   The 48th annual Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies was held between October 22-23 at California State University, Northridge. The theme of this year’s conference was “Translating Asia: Past, Present, & Future.” Northridge experienced a large 6.7 magnitude earthquake back in January 17, 1994. I may be mixing up my earthquakes, but I [...]

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

7. South Pasadena Public Library Screening Recap

   Back in February, 2010, we attended a talk by filmmaker Arthur Dong at the South Pasadena Public Library prior to our film screening at UC Irvine. Following Arthur’s showing of Hollywood Chinese, we spoke with several of the organizers, including City Librarian Steve Fjeldsted, about bringing Autumn Gem to South Pasadena. We gave him a [...]

   Posted on October 24, 2010 in Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

8. UC Santa Barbara Screening Recap

   Our first stop in our final SoCal tour of 2010 was at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Our screening was arranged by the East Asia Center and held at the Multicultural Center Theater. Rae and I drove down from the Bay Area; we started our drive at noon, since I had an event that [...]

   Posted on October 24, 2010 in Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

9. Women in Asia Conference Screening Recap

   Our final screening1 while in Australia was held at the Tenth International Women in Asia Conference at The Australian National University in the capital city of Canberra. The theme of this year’s conference was Crisis, Agency, and Change, certainly apt descriptors for the time that Qiu Jin lived at the turn of the last century. [...]

   Posted on October 6, 2010 in News, Screenings, Travel | No comments

10. Deakin University Screening Recap

    On Tuesdsay, we took the Metlink Tram to Burwood where one of the campuses of Deakin University is located. Deakin is a relatively new university, having only been established 25 years ago. It has campuses in several locations, including Geelong, the site of the 2010 Worlds Cycling Championship happening this week. Had we more time, [...]

    Posted on September 29, 2010 in News, Screenings, Travel | No comments

11. RMIT University Screening Recap

    On Monday, we had a screening at RMIT University in downtown Melbourne. The city features a wide range of architectural styles, and the RMIT student center was definitely a unique example. One of the buildings looked like it was covered with green slime! Our screening was organized by Professor Lisa French in conjunction with her [...]

    Posted on September 29, 2010 in News, Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

12. Life Matters Interview at ABC Radio

    There’s a popular public radio program in the United States called All Things Considered; in Australia, a similar program is called Life Matters on the Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio station. We were interviewed by Sydney-based program host, Richard Aedy, in the Melbourne station on Tuesday morning prior to our screening at Deakin University. This [...]

    Posted on September 29, 2010 in Interviews, Media, Screenings, Travel | No comments

13. Chinese Association of Victoria Screening

    On Sunday night, we had a screening at the Chinese Association of Victoria. In the late afternoon, Rae and I took the train from Flinders Station to Wantirna, a suburb of Melbourne. Lillian and Rex Lai picked us up from Blackburn Station and drove us to the CAV. The association was founded back in 1982 [...]

    Posted on September 26, 2010 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

14. 3CR Community Radio 855 AM Interview

    On Saturday, we were interviewed by 3CR Community Radio 855 AM in Melbourne. Peter Krausz and Melinda O’Connor from the Media Moves program interviewed us about Autumn Gem and our upcoming screening tonight at RMIT University. I’ve been interviewed before on radio, but this was Rae’s first time. I thought we did a pretty job, [...]

    Posted on September 26, 2010 in Interviews, Media, Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

15. Australia-China Friendship Society Screening

    On Friday morning, we got on an airplane from Sydney to Melbourne. The flight was a little over an hour long, and it reminded me of the trip from San Diego to the Bay Area. Upon arriving, we noticed a number of people wearing black and white striped outfits. At the time of this post’s [...]

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

16. University of Sydney Screening

    Following our morning excursions to the Sydney Opera House and Bondi Beach, we went to the University of Sydney for our evening show. The screening, sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the China Education Centre, was held at the Education Building in Lecture Theatre 351 at 6:30pm. They brought a nice-sized turnout to the screening, [...]

    Posted on September 24, 2010 in Screenings, Travel | No comments

17. University of New South Wales Screening

    We had a screening at the University of New South Wales yesterday afternoon. Thanks to Professor Haiqing Yu who set up our first screening of Autumn Gem on international soil! We had mostly academics and professors at the screening, and this led to a very good discussion about how best to promote and distribute our [...]

    Posted on September 22, 2010 in General, Screenings, Technical, Travel | No comments

18. Deakin University Screening Announcement

    Deakin University’s Centre for Teaching Asian Languages and Cultures announced our screening of Autumn Gem, to be held on Tuesday, September 28. The free showing will take place in Lecture Theatre 12, Building X at Deakin’s Melbourne Campus at Burwood. To register to attend please email shannon.cheal (at) deakin.edu.au or phone 03 9244 6417

    Posted on August 13, 2010 in Screenings | 1 comment

19. Autumn Gem Screening Map

    I spent the evening adding markers to a Google Map showing all the places where Autumn Gem has and will be screened. Our Summer and Fall 2010 tour schedule will be taking us to Australia, Texas, Vancouver, and Southern California! It’s amazing that in the past year and a half, we’ve shown Autumn Gem in [...]

    Posted on August 9, 2010 in Screenings, Travel | No comments

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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