Dear Colleagues,
I'm delighted to draw your attention to the chance to get a screening of this film in your institution, together with the film maker.
Naomi
Beijing-based veteran journalist and filmmaker Jocelyn Ford will be in the UK around early February to show her award-winning NOWHERE TO CALL HOME: A TIBETAN IN BEIJING<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/movies/nowhere-to-call-home-examines-prejudices.html?_r=0>, a groundbreaking documentary about a widowed Tibetan migrant that opens new conversations about ethnic discrimination in the PRC, and gender discrimination in Tibet. Her schedule allows a few more stops. The trailer is available at www.tibetaninbeijing.com<http://www.tibetaninbeijing.com> If you are interested in hosting a screening or talk, contact her at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
The documentary touches on many issues, including modernization, migration, gender, education, religion, cultural preservation & transformation, economic development and governance. In China, the film has so far gained traction in universities from anthropologists, and would clearly be of interest to other disciplines as well.
SYNOPSIS: Widowed at 28, Tibetan farmer Zanta defies her tyrannical father-in-law and after her husband's death refuses to marry the family's only surviving son. When Zanta's in-laws won't let her seven-year-old go to school, she flees her village and heads to Beijing where she becomes a street vendor. Destitute and embattled by discrimination, Zanta inveigles a foreign customer into helping pay her boy's school fees. On a New Year's trip back to her village, Zanta's in-laws take her son hostage, drawing the unwitting American into the violent family feud. The two women forge a partnership to try to out-maneuver the in-laws, who according to tradition get the final say on their grandson.
Director Jocelyn Ford, former Beijing and Tokyo bureau chief for the U.S. public radio show Marketplace, has been based in East Asia for three decades. Her groundbreaking reporting on "comfort women" in the 1990s was a catalyst for raising awareness about World War II abuses of women by Japan's military. During three years of filming NOWHERE TO CALL HOME, Jocelyn overcame restrictions on access to Tibetan communities to shine light on the complex choices facing Tibetan farmers living in contemporary China, and to lend new insights into the social fragility of the world's fastest rising power.
Links:
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/movies/nowhere-to-call-home-examines-prejudices.html?_r=0<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/movies/nowhere-to-call-home-examines-prejudices.html?_r=0>
Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericrmeyer/2014/08/19/nowhere-to-call-home-a-film-by-jocelyn-ford-a-new-perspective-on-tibet/
Pacific Affairs
http://www.pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/documentary-film-reviews/forthcoming-film-reviews/
Professional Women International
http://www.pwi.be/page-984100/3103877
PBS POV
http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/2014/11/after-battling-chinese-authorities-and-a-tight-budget-a-first-time-filmmaker-emerges/#.VGJ7ifTF-L1
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