Friday, March 25 01:30pm
Michelson Theater, Department of Cinema Studies
Tisch School Of The Arts, 721 Broadway, (6th Floor), New York, NY 10003
A two-day mini-festival celebrating Asian women filmmakers’ contribution to world cinema, featuring Yu-shan Huang (Taiwan), Soyoung Kim (South Korea) and Rubaiyat Hossain (Bangladesh). All three filmmakers are current or former NYU Cinema Studies students.
1:30 PM Welcome and Introduction
1:45 PM The Twin Bracelets (1990, Taiwan, 99 min., dir. Yu-shan Huang)
3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM Meherjaan (2011, Bangladesh, 119 min., dir Rubaiyat Hossain)
5:30 PM Discussion with Yu-shan Huang and Rubaiyat Hossain, moderated by Prof. Zhen Zhang (Cinema Studies).
Co-sponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.
Yu-shan Huang’s screenings are part of the Taipei Cultural Center in New York’s 2016 Taiwan Women’s Film Series, featuring six films related to Taiwanese women’s suffering and passion. View the series schedule at: http://www.tpecc.org/?p=5722
Presented by the Asian Film and Media Initiative in the Department of Cinema Studies, as part of the Tisch School of the Arts 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Special thanks to NYU East Asian Studies.
This event is free and open to the public. http://tisch.nyu.edu/