Asian-American
International Film Festival ‘05
 62
Years and 6,500 Miles Between
Friday, July 29 at 4:15pm
Saturday, July 30 at 4:30pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Diana Lee, Director of the Asian American
International Film Festival and first-generation Taiwanese
American (Sat only)
Taiwanese expatriate Anita Wen-Shin Chang’s format
is that of a personal diary film roaming back and forth
over the last two decades of the 20th century. For almost
a decade she has explored the lives of the women in
her family living in Taiwan. In particular she focuses
on her activist 90 plus Taiwanese grandmother, nicknamed
democratic Grandma, as a means both of understanding
her own personal life and the issues surrounding the
role of Taiwanese women in her native land. The backdrop
for this fascinating personal documentary is the role
of women seeking freedom from the ancient tradition
of Asian patriarchal oppression set amidst the ongoing
struggle for democracy against Taiwan’s authoritarian
rule and aggravated by tensions between Taiwan and the
People’s Republic of China.
(Taiwan | 2005 | 52 min | Chinese w/English subtitles
| prod./dir./scr.: Anita Wen-Shin Chang | 2005 San Francisco
International Asian Film Festival)
PLUS short film: Garlic=Rich Air The Documentary USA
| 2004 | 20 min
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