Presents
At MoMA: EVE AND THE FIRE HORSE
Asian CineVision is proud to kick off the Spring 2007 line-up of the Asian Cinevisions monthly film series at the Museum of Modern Art, with films from the US/Philppines (RIGODON), China (TAKING FATHER HOME), Malaysia (RAIN DOGS) and (MONDAY MORNING GLORY), and Canada (EVE AND THE FIRE HORSE). Special discount for ACV members! Show valid membership card and pay only $6 for admission to the screenings.
EVE AND THE FIRE HORSE (director Julia Kwan in person!)
Director: Julia Kwan
Cast: Vivian Wu, Hollie Lo, Chan Chit, Phoebe JoJo Kut
Canada | 2005 | 92 mins | color | narrative | English, Cantonese w/ES
If Jesus and Buddha dance in the moonlight, who will lead? For imaginative young Eve, such questions are of paramount importance. Growing up as a 2nd generation Chinese in the suburbs of Toronto, Eve seeks to get rid of the bad luck of her birth year, that of the troublesome and rebellious Firehorse. In the hope that by adding the most ingredients she can make the best dish, Eve mixes the superstitions of her relatives with the mystical orders of the Bible and awaits a higher enlightenment.
Eve and the Fire Horse brings new insights and intelligence to the genre of films that discuss immigrant lives and generation gaps. Cleverly exploiting the melancholy clichés that saturate melodramas about Chinese culture, Eve and the Fire Horse manages to reveal and mock the stereotypes that it uses. The end result is a film with a refreshing honesty - the kind of honesty that only a child possesses. Julia won the Emerging Director Award at the 2006 NY Asian American International Film Festival.
WHEN: Friday, May 18, 6pm; Saturday, May 19, 2pm
WHERE: Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street.
NY, NY 10019
T: 212-708-9400
TIX: $6 discounted tix for ACV and Women Make Movies members
Director's Dialogue with Julia Kwan: A Case Study of Eve and the Fire Horse
Co-Sponsored by Asian CineVision (ACV)
Join us for a conversation on directing the independent feature film—from refining the script, casting and working with actors, envisioning the story with your cinematographer, to crafting the final film in the edit room. Director Julia Kwan will share her experiences in a peer dialogue with director Georgia Lee (Red Doors, which won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival) about making her debut feature, Eve and the Fire Horse.
Clips from the film will be shown, followed by Julia’s elaboration on how she crafted those scenes and got the film to final cut. This workshop is valuable not only for fiction filmmakers, but for documentarians who want to integrate narrative sequences into their films, as well as re-think how they communicate with their subjects.
Eve and the Fire Horse won a Special Jury Prize in World Cinema at Sundance 2006, and was nominated for five Genie (Canadian Oscars) Awards, with Julia winning the Claude Jutra Award. The screenplay was awarded the Charles Israel Screenwriting Prize by the Writers Guild of Canada. Julia’s prior short, Three Sisters on Moon Lake premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2002 where it received an Audience Award, and later had its U.S. debut at Sundance.
WHEN: Thursday, May 17th, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: 462 Broadway, Suite 500WS (at Grand Street)
New York, NY 10013
Tel: 212-925-0606
TIX: $50/40 WMM Filmmakers and Friends and ACV members; $50 (reg. rate)/$40 (discount rate)
MORE INFO: Women Make Movies
This is a part of the Director's Express Pass
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