Screenings

First Stop: Madison, Wisconsin

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We arrived in Madison, Wisconsin, shortly after 7:00 pm CST. A number of people on our flight were sporting Green Bay Packers logos; no doubt they were eagerly anticipating the matchup on Monday Night Football between the Packers and the Brett Favre-led Minnesota Vikings. The Packers put up a good fight, but they fell to their former quarterback 30-23. Favre is the first QB to have beaten all 32 teams in the NFL. Quite an achievement, even if it comes at the expense of his former team.

Tomorrow, we’ll be showing the documentary at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We’re looking forward to kicking off our tour of Autumn Gem to enthusiastic crowds!

Here are some photos from our first night in Madison. Tanya (big thanks for hosting us!) took us out to eat at The Weary Traveler. I noticed that the restaurant was on Twitter, so I tweeted about my menu choice of Hungarian Goulash. Within minutes, Chef Joey responded back. How’s that for service?

Santa Clara University Screening Recap

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Autumn Gem at Santa Clara University

We had a great turnout at the Santa Clara University screening this evening, with nearly 120 people showing up on a Wednesday evening at Daly Science Center, Room 206. Big thanks go out to Barbara Molony, History Department chair at SCU, for organizing this event. Like at the UCSF screening, the demographic among the crowd was broad: students, extras in the movie, family, friends and people who heard about it in our articles in the various Bay Area newspapers. Thanks for coming out!

Yesterday, we received shipment of our official Autumn Gem DVDs. Now on sale at screenings (soon to be available for purchase online), these DVDs have the exact same cut of the film that we’re showing at our screenings. There have been seventeen cuts between the initial rough cut we made in October, 2008, to the final cut today. Special features include storyboards, production stills, and behind-the-scenes photos.

Here are some photos from the Santa Clara screening. Next stop for us is The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Check our screenings page for our complete October Midwest/East Coast tour dates. 16 cities in 25 days. Sounds like a MPG rating for a car!

UCSF Screening Recap and Photos

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Autumn Gem at UCSF

Over 80 people came to the UCSF Cole Hall Auditorium screening of Autumn Gem this evening. There was a great mix of relatives, family friends, college buddies, and a whole contingent from UCSF. Thanks to Zhiyong Yang and his crew at UCSF for organizing the successful screening. The pizza was especially a big hit with the crowd; I can’t believe all the pies were eaten tonight!

I wish all of our screenings could be held in a facility like Cole Hall Auditorium. The sound system was great, and every seat in the house could see the movie as it was meant to be seen — big and colorful! Rae and I gave a short presentation on the genesis of Autumn Gem. After two years of hard work, we’re happy to start sharing it with the rest of the country. Our next stop is this coming Wednesday at Santa Clara University. Days later, we’ll be trekking out to Wisconsin for the start of a month-long, sixteen stop tour of Autumn Gem. We’ll be going from the aforementioned Wisconsin to Illinois, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Boston, New York, and finally to Pennsylvania. Of course, we’ll be updating on this web site along the way. Tell your friends and family in those areas about Autumn Gem!

UCSF Screening on September 25

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UCSF Screening

Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with our appropriately titled film! BioBridge at UCSF will be hosting a free screening and reception with delicious snacks. Supported by the UCSF Cultural Enrichment Fund.

Friday, September 25 at 6:00pm
Cole Hall Auditorium
UCSF Medical Sciences Building
513 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA

RSVP here on Facebook.

Santa Clara University Screening on September 30

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Santa Clara University Screening

Come see AUTUMN GEM in the city in which it was produced! We’ll be screening the documentary at Santa Clara University in Room 206 of the Daly Science Center from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. If you are on Facebook, RSVP for the event here. Seats are limited in the room, so reserve your space now! The screening is sponsored by the History Department at Santa Clara University, and there will be a Q&A session with us following the film.

Here is a map of Santa Clara University. Daly Science Center is circled in black.

Daly Science Center is circled in black

Daly Science Center is circled in black

Just days after this screening, we’ll be heading out to the Midwest and East Coast. Check out our tour stops and be sure to let everyone you know in those areas about the film!

Pacific Asia Museum Screening Recap

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Autumn Gem at Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena

Rae and I returned last night from Pasadena, where we screened AUTUMN GEM at the Pacific Asia Museum. The museum had been holding a weekly film series for the past few months, and we were the last film on its summer schedule. PAM’s Becky Sun (Community Outreach Coordinator) and Amelia Chapman (Curator of Education) organized and advertised the event to PAM members. Along with our marketing efforts, we estimated about 70-80 people were present at the nighttime showing in the museum’s lovely courtyard. The weather was great and the screen and projector were in fine form; if only every screening could be held in such ideal conditions!

We had a great time meeting new people, along with friends and family. Thanks to Marc, Li Jing, and Rae’s cousins for attending the screening and bringing their friends. We got a number of good contacts for future screenings in Southern California.

Read the rest of this post and see the photos »

Southern California Screening of AUTUMN GEM

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Join us for a special outdoor screening of AUTUMN GEM at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena! Enjoy the warm summer night and mingle with filmmakers Rae Chang and Adam Tow and star Li Jing in the museum’s beautiful courtyard garden. Free with museum admission.

Thursday, August 20
8:00 pm
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101

Feel free to pass this on to your friends in Southern California. Stay tuned for upcoming events in the Bay Area this fall, including screenings in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Santa Clara.
Hope to see you there!

Here is the link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP!

Autumn Gem in World Journal 6/22

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Autumn Gem made it into the 6/22/2009 edition, section B2, of the World Journal again. Here’s a short article about the film and the screening in San Diego. We had another interview with a writer from the World Journal stationed in New Jersey. We’ll be screening the film at the New Jersey Chinese Community Center in Somerset, NJ, on October 17, 2009. More details to come as the date gets closer!

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Autumn Gem in World Journal 6/22/2009

Autumn Gem in World Journal 6/22/2009

Autumn Gem Screening at D7 Conference

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Rae and I are minutes away from the Autumn Gem screening at the D7 Conference at the Four Seasons Aviara in Carlsbad, California. We’re excited to show the film in glorious 1080p. The dual projectors produce an absolutely fabulous picture… it’s the film as it was meant to be seen!

D7 attendees all received a special DVD of the movie in their gift bag. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher provided a special note on the DVD jacket. Big thanks to them for allowing us to screen our film at the conference!

Here are some photos from the screening at D7.