本周末中国新电影首映迈阿密——FW: Chinese film at Miami Film Festival's GEMS
Yu, Xuejun
FYI. Please share it in your circle of contacts. Thanks.
Jim
Xuejun (Jim) Yu, Ph.D.
Director, Confucius Institute & China Initiatives
Miami Dade College
300 NE 2nd Ave., Room 1201
Miami, FL 33132
Phone 305-237-7581 / Fax 305-237-7819
Email: x...@mdc.edu / www.mdc.edu/confucius
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From: Cohen, Lauren
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 10:59 AM
To: Yu, Xuejun <x...@mdc.edu>
Subject: RE: Chinese film at Miami Film Festival's GEMS
Hi Jim,
Attached is the digital flyer for OLD STONE with the CI logo. Tickets go on sale to the general public tomorrow, and can be purchased directly through the following link:
http://gems2016.miamifilmfestival.com/films/old-stone/
Confucius Institute followers get a special discount of $2 off per ticket when they use discount code CHINA2016 at checkout.
Do you think you can send an e-blast out about this to your contacts tomorrow?
Also, I know you mentioned that you have an event at Dolphin Mall tomorrow – let me know when is a good time and I’ll drop off the physical flyers at your office!
Best,
Lauren
Lauren Cohen
Promotions Coordinator |Miami Film Festival
e: lau...@miamifilmfestival.com
t: 305-237-7789 | c: 786-200-7467
From: Yu, Xuejun
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 6:17 PM
To: Cohen, Lauren
Cc: Laplante, Jaie; Liu, Xinglin; Mackliff, Tatiana (International Education)
Subject: RE: Chinese film at Miami Film Festival's GEMS
Hi Lauren,
Thank you very much for screening this remarkable Chinese film at the festival during Oct. 13-16. We’d love to support by publicizing this event in our channels.
If you print out the post card of this screening as you did before (with CI logo), please deliver it to my office as we will host several major events at MDC and in the community this September, such as an education seminar for new Chinese Students in metro Miami on Sept. 10, “Chinese Tourism Promotion” with China National Tourism Administration at Dolphin Mall on Friday, Sept. 23, and “Chinese Talent Show” for K-16 students of Chinese language in south Florida on Sept. 24.
Please also send me your electronic version of the flyer, and I’ll forward to all our email contacts.
Thank you and best wishes for a great success of this screening and the mini fall festival GEMS!
Jim
Xuejun (Jim) Yu, Ph.D.
Director, Confucius Institute & China Initiatives
Miami Dade College
300 NE 2nd Ave., Room 1201
Miami, FL 33132
Phone 305-237-7581 / Fax 305-237-7819
Email: x...@mdc.edu / www.mdc.edu/confucius
From: Cohen, Lauren
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 3:53 PM
To: Yu, Xuejun <x...@mdc.edu>
Subject: Chinese film at Miami Film Festival's GEMS
Hi Jim,
Hope all is well with you! As I’m sure you know, the Miami Film Festival’s mini fall festival GEMS is right around the corner, taking place October 13-16. I’m writing to let you know that we have a remarkable Chinese film screening at the festival called Old Stone (Lao shi). Here’s a synopsis of the film:
In a mid-sized Chinese city, a drunk, unruly passenger causes Lao Shi’s taxi to accidently hit a motorcyclist. Instead of speeding away, the doggedly decent Lao Shi leaps to the injured man’s aid, taking him to a nearby hospital when calls to emergency personnel prove futile. Under Chinese law, however, Lao Shi becomes responsible for the victim’s burgeoning, seemingly unending medical bills. (Ironically, had the victim had been killed by the accident, Lao Shi’s responsibilities would have ended with the payment of a nominal fine.) Lao Shi wants to do the right thing, but everyone around him, including his wife, begin to ridicule and abandon him for his ostensibly outdated moral code.
Based on a real-life incident, Old Stone evolves from a Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucratic dodge, insurance loopholes and legal atrocities into a harrowing, impossible-to-shake thriller that drops us into the center of an ethical labyrinth.
We don’t announce the GEMS line-up to the public until September 15th, so as of right now this title is confidential. However, I wanted to reach out to you early to give you a heads up about this title, and see if you’d be interested in helping us promote this title to the local Chinese community in Miami when we officially announce the title next month. Confucius Institute was of enormous help to us last year when it came to spreading the word about our Chinese films, and I really hope we can count on your support again this year!
Let me know what you think!
Best,
Lauren
Lauren Cohen
Promotions Coordinator |Miami Film Festival
e: lau...@miamifilmfestival.com
t: 305-237-7789 | c: 786-200-7467
