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Tonight's Movie: THE FAREWELL, written and directed by Lulu Wang
8:30pm
Private Screening Room
710 N. El Centro Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Street parking available
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Lulu Wang
Lulu Wang is a classical-pianist-turned-filmmaker. Born in Beijing, raised in Miami, and educated in Boston, Wang is a recipient of the 2014 Chaz and Roger Ebert Directing Fellowship, awarded at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. She’s also a 2014 Film Independent Project Involve Directing fellow and a 2017 fellow with Sundance Institute’s FilmTwo Initiative, a program supporting second-time feature filmmakers. Her first feature, POSTHUMOUS was released by The Orchard. In January 2019, Wang's second feature film, THE FAREWELL, premiered at Sundance, where it was picked up for worldwide distribution by A24. The film follows a struggling New York City artist, played by Awkwafina, who travels to China for a family reunion to visit her dying grandmother. Wang based the film on her grandmother's illness, a story she first told on an episode of This American Life.
The film holds a 99% Critics Consensus rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Watch the trailer here!
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BADASS SHORT FORM FILMMAKER OF THE WEEK:
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Aly Migliori (credit: Daniel Angeles)
Aly is a New York based director and cinematographer interested in developing subversively feminist stories that entertain and provoke. TWIST (2019) follows a teenager (Helena Howard) in a dark yet truthful take on the traditional coming of age story, and premiered at Tribeca 2019. AFTER HER (2018), is an atmospheric sci-fi that explored the marginalization of the tokenized lost girl (Natalia Dyer), and premiered online with DUST to over 300K views in the first 48 hours. It played over 20 festivals, including Sarasota, Atlanta, and Dallas. As a cinematographer, she has shot commercially for clients such as Zara, Chase, and Nickelodeon. She is an Easy Rig ambassador, pushing the initiative of female-forward camera gear. Aly is currently working on a feature expansion of TWIST.
Watch her short, TWIST, here! (pw: screener)
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Women Wednesdays is heading to Sundance!
See something great directed by a woman? Let us know!
Submit your favorites to a poll here and look out for our best of the fest recap!
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Looking ahead to Sundance 2020, 44% of films were directed by one or more women
"Sundance chose its lineup from 15,100 submissions, a number that included 3,853 feature-length movies. For the second year in a row, the festival released statistics about the filmmakers who made the accepted works, reporting that 44 percent were directed by one or more women, 34 percent were directed by one or more person of color and 15 percent by members of sexual and gender minority communities.
“A lot of our films are ‘of the time’, which has been a long time coming,” John Cooper, the director of the festival, said. 'The audience has paved the way for a different kind of indie film: more authentic stories from different cultures and backgrounds.'" Read more here!
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