Chick Flick Fest
The Second Annual Asian American Film Series
April 22, 23, & 24, 2004
From Dragon Lady to sex siren, Anna May Wong was the first and is still
the most significant Asian American actress. This year's series opens with
two of her classic films, with commentary by guest speaker Janet
Tzou. A selection of award-winning independent
films and performances follows on subsequent evenings.
All
screenings 7:00 p.m. at the Wang Center Theatre. Free to all.
April 22: Films of Anna May Wong
Picadilly (Ewald
Andre Dupont/1929/92 min.) and Daughter of the Dragon (Lloyd
Corrigan/1931/70 min.) showcase the talents of movie legend Anna May
Wong, while revealing how Hollywood mythmakers launched a stereotypical
construction of Asian womanhood on screen. Guest speaker Janet Tzou,
attorney and editor of Mouther.com, will speak on "Asian Americans
in the Media: Have Things Really Gotten Any Better?"
Thursday, April 22, 7:00 p.m., Wang Center Theatre. Free to all.
April 23: Do Women Ever Stop Being
Chicks?
A
pair of award-winning indie films explores ways of loving among young
women, older women, all women. Chutney Popcorn (Nisha Ganatra/1999/92
min.), a seriocomic message movie, examines the lives of an Indian-American
family torn apart by an elder daughter's inability to conceive.
Puff ( (Bix, 2002, 50 min.) combines the fictional story of a young
Indian woman in search of a brown man who knows the tune “Puff
the Magic Dragon,”
with the true love life stories of five other women of color, providing
an insightful and candid look at heterosexual love, race, class and sex. Co-sponsored
by the Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, AURA-[AA]2, aKDP,
ESP, KPL & SBU AA E-Zine;
funded by [AA]2 with a grant from the Long Island Fund for Women and
Girls, Melville Memorial Library, and www.aasquared.org/AURA.
Friday, April 23, 7:00 p.m., Wang Center Theatre. Free to
all.
April 24: The Red Thread/Performances
The
Red Thread (Cynthia Liu/ 2003/25 min ) explores what happens
when a traditional Chinese mom mistakenly sets up her playwright daughter
with Mr. Wrong. After the film, catch SB's women performers at their finest – from
hiphop to ribbon dance, from spoken word to taiko drummers.
Saturday, April 24, 7:00 p.m., Wang Center Theatre. Free to all.
