Film “Nowhere to Call Home”
This Event Was Fully Booked. Due to Popular Demand, the Director Has Agreed in Principle With Rasbj to Show the Film a Second Time. Details Will Be on the Rasbj Website, and Regrets to the Many Supporters Who Registered to View This Documentary but Were Unable to Due to the Limited Number of Seats. We Hope to See You at Future Rasbj Events.
Please join RASBJ for the viewing of a highly acclaimed documentary film and a chat with its director, award-winning U.S. radio journalist Jocelyn Ford. “Nowhere to Call Home: a Tibetan in Beijing” challenges common stereotypes about Tibetans in both the West and in China. It tells the powerful story of Zanta, a Tibetan street vendor and widow, who moved to Beijing against the wishes of her in-laws so that her young son could get an education.
Filmed in the slums of Beijing and a remote Tibetan village, the documentary shines a light on underplayed social issues — such as gender and racial discrimination — and reveals dramatic family dynamics in a rural area where, as the saying goes, “women aren’t worth a penny”. Last year the documentary premiered in the U.S. at the Museum of Modern Art, and in China at the new Center for Documentary Studies in Beijing. It has been invited to screen for Xinhua News Agency editors and at prestigious educational institutions such as Peking University and the university for ethnic minorities, Minzu Daxue.
Commended by both Tibetans and Han Chinese as lending a voice to the voiceless, the 83-minute documentary will be followed by Q&A with director Ford. Beijing-based foreign correspondent Laura Daverio of RSI Swiss Television will moderate.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS OFF THE RECORD
WHEN: Wednesday, April 8, 7:00-9:00 PM
WHERE: the Courtyard Institute, No.28 Zhong Lao Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing link to English
活动地址：北京市东城区中老胡同28号 link to Chinese
HOW MUCH: 30 RMB for RASBJ members; 60 RMB for non-members.
RSVP: please email [email protected] by April 7 at 6 PM, and let us know how many seats you’d like to reserve. Seating is limited; RASBJ members get priority. Thanks to the Courtyard Institute for providing the venue for this event!
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.
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