{"id":45152,"date":"2014-07-29T08:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=45152"},"modified":"2014-07-04T04:26:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T08:26:01","slug":"asian-american-international-film-festival-song-of-the-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=45152","title":{"rendered":"Asian American International Film Festival &#8211; SONG OF THE PHOENIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, July 29, 2014 6:00 PM<br \/>\nCity Cinema Village East<br \/>\n189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Asian-American-International-Film-Festival-SONG-OF-THE-PHOENIX.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[45152]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45153\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Asian-American-International-Film-Festival-SONG-OF-THE-PHOENIX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SONG OF THE PHOENIX \u767e\u9e1f\u671d\u51e4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SONG OF THE PHOENIX, the final film of the late director Wu Tianming, charts the life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona (a Chinese double-reed woodwind instrument) apprentice who goes on to form his very own suona troupe at a time when the presence of traditional instruments declines in Chinese society. Tianming faces the harsh reality that his artistic calling is no longer in tune with a modern, urbanized China. Director Wu Tianming, who just recently passed away, was considered a prominent figure among the Fourth Generation Chinese filmmakers who inspired many well-known Fifth Generation filmmakers such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the film, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/aaiff.org\/2014\/films\/song-of-the-phoenix\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/aaiff.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, July 29, 2014 6:00 PM City Cinema Village East 189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45156,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45152\/revisions\/45156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}