South Social Film Festival is partnering with the Chinese Visual Festival to celebrate China on a day in London, with food, dance and the screening of Cathy Yan’s “Dead Pigs“. China is a country that has fast forwarded into the new century with amazing speed and has marked cinema and art with a strong visual and ethnic impact.
Schedule: Thursday, 3 October 2019
18:00 – Opening with food and drinks
19:00 – Dance performance
19:30 – Intro festival + screening
21:30 – Panel discussion
22:30 – End festival
THE FILM
“Dead Pigs” is all about the environment, pollution, industrial wastes and the regeneration business that goes with it. Main characters in this film are as diverse as possible. A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly-modernising Shanghai. (VO with English subtitles)
THE DIRECTOR
Cathy Yan, was born in China and lived in Hong Kong and the US. She’s Asian with a Western twist. She understands both worlds. Her first job was as a reporter for the Wall Street journal and her eye for the news is what brought her to pick such a challenging subject in China. Right now she’s heavily into post production of her latest film based on the DC UNIVERSE. She just made history by being the first Asian woman to direct a female-driven superhero movie.
DANCE
Lucia Tong is an inspired dancer with a background in dance and theatre performance. She creates multi-disciplinary works with her own company Pangea Art and with Arts 4 Human Rights to promote the use of arts to engage people with social thinking and action.
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