23 April John Junkerman / OUTSIDE THE GREAT WALL

Jonathan M. Hall jmhall at pomona.edu
Wed Apr 7 19:49:52 EDT 2010


Dear KineJapanners,

It's a pleasure to forward the following announcement of another screening at the FCCJ.

We have the 13 April screening of Caterpillar just next week.  Then following week, KineJapan member John Junkerman's film (as producer and editor) OUTSIDE THE GREAT WALL will screen on Friday April 23.

Please be sure to send Karen Severns (kjs30 at gol.com) an email if you'd like to be put on the guest list.  The FCCJ is a private club.

Yours sincerely,
Jonathan M Hall
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http://www.fccj.or.jp/node/5515

SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING: OUTSIDE THE GREAT WALL

followed by a Q&A session with the film's director, producer,
coproducer/editor and narrator

FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2010. 6:30 p.m. 20th floor
Please note early start time.

OUTSIDE THE GREAT WALL
(Japanese title: Bômei) Japan, 2010. 133 minutes

Directed by Han Guang
Produced by Tetsujiro Yamagami
Coproduced and edited by John Junkerman
Narrated by Roger Pulvers
Film courtesy of Siglo, Ltd.

The Movie Committee is honored to present this very special sneak
preview screening of Outside the Great Wall.

At a time when China has joined the economic powerhouses of the world,
it has also erected a new Great Wall against free speech and democracy,
blocking the flow of information among Chinese and from overseas. This
brave documentary features interviews with 12 prominent Chinese
intellectuals and artists living in exile, from Nobel Prize-winning
writer Gao Xingjian in Paris and novelist Zheng Yi in Washington, to
Tiananmen student leaders Wang Dan and Zhang Boli, and the "Godfather of
Chinese Democracy" Xu Wenli. The story of these courageous men and
women, scattered to the far corners of the world, is the story of the
struggle for freedom and human rights in China, from the Cultural
Revolution and Tiananmen to the present. Their fight continues today.

We hope you will join us for this exciting opportunity to preview this
important film and discuss it with the filmmakers afterward.

Director Han Guang was born in northern China and attended college in
Japan. He won the Asahi Journal Prize for nonfiction writing in 1992 for
Auntie So's Sea. In 1999, Han completed his first documentary, Where is
Grandma Zheng's Homeland? about the return of a Korean "comfort woman"
to her homeland from China. His next film, Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters
(2006, also screened at FCCJ) depicted sexual slavery in the remote
Shanxi Province of China.

Producer Tetsujiro Yamagami is the founding president of Siglo, Ltd.,
and has produced over 70 documentaries and feature films, including
award-winning titles by John Junkerman (Japan's Peace Constitution),
Yoichi Higashi (The River with No Bridge and Village of Dreams), Makoto
Sato (Artists in Wonderland and Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said)
and Ryosuke Hashiguchi (Hush! and All Around Us).

Coproducer-editor John Junkerman is an American filmmaker who has worked
with Siglo on many films. His first film, Hellfire: A Journey from
Hiroshima, was coproduced with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John
Dower and nominated for an Academy Award. His 2002 film, Power and
Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times, produced by Siglo, received
widespread theatrical distribution. His acclaimed 2005 film, Japan's
Peace Constitution, was a hard-hitting look at the conservative Japanese
government's plan to revise the nation's constitution and jettison its
famous no-war clause, Article 9.

Narrator Roger Pulvers is an American-born Australian who has lived in
Japan for nearly 40 years. An author, playwright and theatre director,
he is also active in the film industry. Pulvers has published 25 books
in Japanese and English and is currently a professor at the Tokyo
Institute of Technology.

All movie screenings are private, noncommercial events restricted to
FCCJ members and their guests.

Karen Severns, Edwin Karmiol, Movie Committee

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