Tag Archives: Screening

1. Southern California Fall 2011 Tour Recap

   It’s been two years since we had our first Autumn Gem screening in Southern California at the Pacific Asia Museum. Since then, we’ve had over one hundred screenings around the world, including stops in Australia, Canada, Texas, the Southwest, the Midwest, and the East Coast. This past week, we returned to Southern California for a [...]

   Posted on October 1, 2011 in Media, News, Screenings, Travel | No comments

2. Monterey Park Public Library Screening Recap

   Rounding out our Southern California tour was an event at the Monterey Park Public Library. Monterey Park was where we filmed the scene of Qiu Jin training with her cousin (who is played by Rae’s real cousin Hans), so it was great returning to one of our shooting locations. Our actress Li Jing attended the [...]

   Posted on March 16, 2011 in General, News, Screenings | No comments

3. Miramar College Screening Recap

   Our first major public screening was at Adam’s high school in San Diego back in May 2009. On Friday we returned to his home turf for another event, this time at Miramar College. We had a fantastic turnout of students, faculty, community members, and even some of Adam’s elementary school classmates from Spreckels! Thanks to [...]

   Posted on March 16, 2011 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

4. Torrance Public Library Screening Recap

   Second stop on our Southern California tour was the Torrance Public Library. Rae was born in Torrance, and the screening was held the day before her birthday, March 9, which happens to be Adam’s birthday! Yes, we’re both Pisces, and this year is also Adam’s Year of the Rabbit, so we’re looking forward to being [...]

   Posted on March 16, 2011 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

5. Southern Methodist University Screening Recap

   Our final screening of 2010 tour was at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. SMU was chartered and founded in 1911, the same year that Women’s History Month was started and the fall of the Qing Dynasty in China. Today, the school is home to 11,000 students, and will be the future site of the former [...]

   Posted on November 27, 2010 in Screenings, Travel | No comments

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Stanford University Screening Recap and Photos

    With over a month to prepare for our Stanford screening tonight, we made sure we got the word out about the film through as many channels as possible. The Center for East Asian Studies was the co-sponsor for the event, and they helped flyer the campus, email various mailing lists, and list the screening on [...]

    Posted on December 1, 2009 in Screenings | No comments

11. City College Screening Recap and Photos

    We had a couple of firsts at our Autumn Gem screening at City College of San Francisco yesterday. The place was packed, thanks to the combined efforts of the Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, Cinema and Women’s Studies Departments; we had over 90 people in attendance. The second first is one that I’m not all [...]

    Posted on November 10, 2009 in General, Screenings, Technical | 1 comment

12. University of Pennsylvania Screening Recap and Photos

    Our last stop was at the University of Pennsylvania. Following the screening at the Evergreen Senior Club in Delaware, Uncle Don drove us to Philadelphia. World Series fever was in the air, as we saw many banners for the Phillies, as well as people sporting Phillies jackets, hats and shirts. We had an intimate screening, [...]

    Posted on October 30, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

13. Evergreen Senior Club Recap and Photos

    About two weeks ago, Rae’s dad told us to call one of his friends from college who now lives in Delaware. Professor Charles Ih (from the University of Delaware) was very interested in showing Autumn Gem to the Evergreen Senior Club at the Chinese American Community Center in Hockessin, Delaware. The only time that we [...]

    Posted on October 30, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

14. Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Screening Recap and Photos

    Our third week on tour concluded with a screening at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The BCNC is celebrating their 40th anniversary of serving the Chinatown community this year, and the organization is having a celebration gala in a couple of weeks on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at the center’s two buildings [...]

    Posted on October 25, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | 2 comments

15. University of Massachusetts, Boston Screening Recap and Photos

    On Friday, we had a great time at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where we participated in several seminars before our screening of Autumn Gem at 4:00 pm. At most of the screenings on this trip, we don’t have too much time to wander around the school and talk with the students. We have typically [...]

    Posted on October 24, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | 3 comments

16. Brown University Screening and Recap

    During our East Coast scholar interview trip last June, we also interviewed Professor Lingzhen Wang at Brown University. Following our stop at Connecticut College, Rae and I drove up to Providence, Rhode Island on Wednesday afternoon. This is now the fifth time I’ve been in Providence, having come here as a high school student to [...]

    Posted on October 22, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

17. Connecticut College Screening Recap and Photos

    Nearly a year and a half ago, Rae, JP, and I went to the East Coast to interview two scholars, Amy Dooling from Connecticut College and Lingzhen Wang from Brown University. Three weeks into our Midwest and East Coast tour, we have returned to both of these schools for screenings of Autumn Gem. Our first [...]

    Posted on October 20, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | 2 comments

18. New Jersey Chinese Community Center Recap and Photos

    Our final stop in our seven screenings in six days week was at the New Jersey Chinese Community Center. Thanks to Tien-Fang Hou for bringing a great crowd to the screening. Coincidentally, Tien-Fang’s grandson trains at the same wushu school as Melissa, the girl who played the young Qiu Jin in our film. Small world! [...]

    Posted on October 18, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

19. Princeton University Screening Recap and Photos

    When I was in high school, one of my top college choices was Princeton University. Unfortunately at the time, I wasn’t accepted, and I eventually went to Stanford. Things worked out in the end, and I no longer spend any time wondering what might have been. Our screening was organized by the Davis International Center [...]

    Posted on October 18, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

20. University of Maryland, College Park Screening Recap and Photos

    Our double feature on Thursday, October 15, ended with a screening at the University of Maryland, College Park. The weather was really wet, and we were fearing the worst in regards to the turnout. But, by golly, thirty-five people said, “Hell no!” to the rain and wind and made it to the showing! Thanks go [...]

    Posted on October 16, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments

21. Oldfields School Screening Recap and Photos

    On the morning of October 15, 2009, we drove north of Baltimore to Oldfields School, Maryland’s oldest girls’ boarding school. The theme for Oldfields this year is, “Women Who Dare,” so it was an ideal fit for our documentary. Thanks to Maria and the rest of the Oldfields staff for having us! And, big kudos [...]

    Posted on October 15, 2009 in News, Screenings, Travel | 2 comments

22. George Mason University Recap and Photos

    Our third stop in three days (three of seven for the week) took us to George Mason University. We had the pleasure of being toured around the campus by Dr. Karl Zhang, Professor of Chinese Modern and Classical Languages at GMU. It turns out that Professor Zhang did his Ph.D. work at Stanford University the [...]

    Posted on October 15, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

23. University of Maryland-Baltimore County Recap and Photos

    We’ve discovered the secret to getting a good turnout at our university screenings: food and extra credit! About 90 students attended the screening at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Big kudos to Constantine Vaporis, Anna Shields, Rebecca Boehling and all the UMBC professors who got their students to come to the showing. They also did [...]

    Posted on October 13, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | 1 comment

24. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Screening Recap

    One of the first questions that I had when we arrived in Champaign, Illinois, was, “Is it Urbana-Champaign or Champaign-Urbana?” The University is called University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), but I saw buses with signs saying Champaign-Urbana. The reason for the hyphenated name is because the school is located between the twin cities of Champaign [...]

    Posted on October 12, 2009 in General, Screenings | No comments

25. Screening at Columbia College Chicago

    This morning, we departed Madison, Wisconsin, in the seat of a Coach USA bus. Our destination was Chicago, Illinois, and Columbia College Chicago. Switching buses at Janesville, Rae and I slept most of the way to Chicago. When we arrived at Union Station, it was raining outside; good thing that we came prepared with our [...]

    Posted on October 8, 2009 in General, Screenings, Travel | No comments