Newsletter-March 2010

dGenerate Films Newsletter: March 2010

Welcome to our latest newsletter. Highlights include information on:

  • Ghost Town’s week run at the MoMA, as well as glowing Ghost Town reviews from A.O. Scott of the NY Times, Village Voice & Time Out
  • Our new partnership with Indieflix, who will be selling institutional DVD & home VOD for our titles
  • Venice Prize-winning 1428‘s US premiere at the MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight
  • Top Ten Chinese film of the decade Oxhide released on institutional DVD
  • dGenerate Films at the Assoc. of Asian Studies conference in March
  • New titles on their way, including Jia Zhangke’s Dong, Zhao Liang’s Crime and Punishment, and Robin Weng’s Fujian Blue
  • Other dGenerate highlights, including President Karin Chien’s Independent Spirit Award
  • Upcoming screenings of dGenerate Films

As always, contact as any time, for any reason. Visit our film catalog here. Thanks for your support!

Welcome,

Kevin Lee
VP, Programming & Education
(646) 360-0343 / info@dgeneratefilms.com

dGenerate Bits

GHOST TOWN AT MOMA & MORE RAVE REVIEWS

  • Zhao Dayong’s acclaimed documentary Ghost Town is playing daily this week at the MoMA in New York till Saturday, March 21
  • Truly incredible. Great reviews from Village Voice, Time Out, and the New York Times
  • Ghost Town is also visiting Madison (WI), Alburquerque (NM), and Los Angeles (CA) in the near future, read below for details
  • Bring Ghost Town to your town. Contact us to book a screening!

DGENERATE TITLES ON INDIEFLIX

  • We’re happy to announce a partnership with website Indieflix. They will be selling our titles on institutional DVD as well as through digital rental. Check out our current titles on their site here

OXHIDE – ONE OF THE TOP FILMS OF THE DECADE – NOW ON DVD

  • In our one-of-a-kind poll of the Best Chinese Films of the 2000s, Oxhide, director Liu Jiayin’s quiet, homemade do-it-yourself masterpiece, shocked many by placing in the top ten. We are pleased to announce that Oxhide is now available for institutional DVD sales and exhibition rental. If you haven’t seen the film, you owe it to yourself to get your hands on it.

US PREMIERE OF AWARD-WINNING EARTHQUAKE FILM 1428

“This is independent documentary at its most sophisticated.” – Shelly Kraicer, Vancouver International Film Festival

  • 1428, directed by Du Haibin, made its US Premiere at MoMA’s prestigious Documentary Fortnight Showcase, after having won the Best Documentary Award at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival. A stunning exploration of the 8.0 earthquake that shook China’s Sichuan province in 2008, causing 70,000 deaths and 375,000 casualties, the film has an eerie resonance to the recent tragedies in Haiti and Chile.
  • 1428 is currently booking film festival and exhibition screenings.

NEW ACQUISITIONS

  • We have several titles on their way, including Jia Zhangke’s “Dong”, Zhao Dayong’s Street Life, Yang Jin’s Black and White Milk Cow, Robin Weng’s Fujian Blue, Cui Zi’en’s We are the … of Communism, and Zhao Liang’s Crime and Punishment. Exhibition screens can be booked now. Stay tuned for DVD and VOD, as well as more information about each of our new releases.

DGENERATES AT AAS ANNUAL MEETING

  • We had a great time at last year’s Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, so we’re coming to the 2010 Meeting in Philadelphia.
    Look for our booth in the Exhibitions Hall March 25-28, where you can meet dGenerate staff, buy our DVDs (including some of our new releases) and
    win a free dGenerate DVD! Also, four of our films will be shown in the media screening area of the conference.
  • If you’d like to set up a one-on-one meeting with VP of Programming Kevin Lee, please contact us. We’d love to discuss your needs and our titles with you.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

  • Heartiest of congratulations to dGenerate’s President Karin Chien on winning the Piaget Producer’s Prize (and namechecking dGenerate Films on national TV) at this year’s Independent Spirit Awards.
  • dGenerate’s Kevin Lee took part in “An Evening With Jia Zhangke,” interviewing China’s most exciting director on stage as part of his monthlong retrospective at MoMA. We also translated and published his seminal essay, “The Age of Amateur Cinema Will Return.”
  • Zhang Xianmin, one of the leading figures of Chinese independent film, offers an epic three part essay, “Hail! Hail! Hail! The State of Chinese Cinema,” that pulls no punches. Read Parts 1, 2, and 3.

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

  • Our exhibitions calendar is heating up for 2010, so contact us now to book a screening for any of our titles, including Zhao Dayong’s Ghost Town, named one of the top films of 2009 by many top publications. Below are some upcoming screenings.