2009 Spring Film Screenings

Rose Hills Theatre, 7:00 p.m.
For information, call 909/445-9386

Man Push Cart
Thursday, February 19

Man Push Cart Film screening followed by Q&A with film maker Ramin Bahrani. Man Push Cart tells the story of Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi), a former Pakistani rock singer and now one of the countless invisible workers of New York City, who ekes out a living selling coffee and donuts from his push cart in order to make a better life for his son. The film won more than ten international prizes and was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards and a Gotham Award (2007). For more information, contact: Professor Pardis Marhdavi, 909/607-7854. .

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Wednesday, March 11

“Directed by Wayne Wang from a screenplay adapted by Yiyun Li from her own short story, A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS stars Henry O as Mr. Shi, an elderly Beijing gentleman who pays a visit to his daughter in America. Father and daughter both have skeletons in their closets, and the movie generates much of its feeling from their efforts to muffle the rattling. When Yilan heads off to work, her father pores over the newspaper or sits on a bench in the nearby park, where he strikes up a poignant friendship with a matronly Iranian immigrant (touchingly played by Vida Ghahremani).”[Nathan Lee, New York Times, September 19, 2008]
Spanish w/ English subtitles; 88 min.

Student Short Film Prize Award Documentary
Tuesday, April 7

The winner of the best 2008 Summer Student Video Travel project will be presented with a prize and the film will be screened.

Red Dust
Tuesday, April 7
Documentary Film by Karin Mak

A documentary by Karin Mak, is a rare portrayal of women workers in China poisoned by cadmium while manufacturing batteries. Karin T Mak was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri to immigrants originally from Hong Kong. She spent several years on immigrant and workers’ rights campaigns in California. In 2003, she received the prestigious New Voices Fellowship to work with Sweatshop Watch, a Los Angeles-based non-profit educating the public about globalization. Mak’s films have screened in Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, and Eugene, Oregon