Film

10th Korean Film Festival

Subtitle: 
Architecture 101
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 03/26/2013 - 17:00

35-year-old architect Seung-Min receives a visit at his office from a woman. Seung-Min doesn’t recognize the woman at first, but then realizes she is Seo-Yoon, his first love whom he hasn’t seen since his freshman year in college. Seo-Yoon now has a request. She wants to hire Seung-Min to rebuild her home on Jeju Island. 15 years ago, Seung-Min was a naïve young man beginning his architecture studies in college and he first meets Seo-Yoon in his Architecture 101 class. As they work on a class project together, Seung-Min and Seo-Yoon begin to fall in love.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

10th Korean Film Festival

Subtitle: 
The Thieves
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 17:00

In order to let things cool down from their latest heist, Popeye and his group of thieves go to Macao on a job. But the mastermind behind this job is none other than Popeye’s old partner Macao Park, who escaped with 68kg of gold several years ago on their last job together. But Macao Park's plans takes an unexpected turn when Popeye brings Pepsi, an old flame of Macao Park, to settle the old score. The thieves’ target is a $20 million diamond known as ‘Tear of the Sun’, kept safely away in a casino, brought there to be sold by a notorious Chinese fence.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

Hool: Rebellion

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 03/04/2013 - 19:00

Documentary screening of “Hool”, the story of the oppression of the Adivasis (tribals) in East India and their fight for their rights. In solidarity for Soni Sori, imprisoned Adivasi activist. Come to learn about the cost of development on the human rights of indigenous communities in India, the fate of Soni Sori, and ways to support Adivasi communities and fight violence against women.

Location: 
William Pitt Union, Room 837

An Introduction to Chinese Sixth Generation Film: Focusing on Blind Shaft

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 03/09/2013 - 10:00 to 13:00

Film critics consider Blind Shaft an excellent example of Sixth Generation film. It is “former documentary filmmaker Li Yang’s feature debut and is both a bleak film noir set on a lawless frontier and an indictment of China’s disastrous Economic Miracle…In modern Northwestern China, itinerant coal miners Tang and Song place a cash price on human life in a world where humanity has been deemed utterly worthless.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

Asia Unreeled

Subtitle: 
Cities Unreeled: Urbanized (2011)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 03/03/2013 - 14:00

Urbanized is about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world's population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities are experiencing explosive growth, others are shrinking. The challenges of balancing housing, mobility, public space, civic and economic development, and environmental policy are fast becoming universal concerns.

Location: 
Winchester Thurston School, 555 Morewood Avenue, Shadyside
Cost: 
Free

Asia Unreeled

Subtitle: 
China Unreeled: All in This Tea (2007) and Chinese Tea Tasting Event
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 02/23/2013 - 14:00

Few people know the fascinating history of tea growing and making. This intriguing documentary aims to change that by following renowned tea importer David Lee Hoffman as he scours the far-flung corners of China to find the richest teas on earth. Tea making is an art and tradition that goes back generations in the East, and Hoffman makes it his goal to bring to the rest of the world the exquisite teas produced by struggling small farmers. This film will be accompanies by a tea tasting featuring Chinese teas and dessert after the screening.

Location: 
Winchester Thurston School, 555 Morewood Avenue, Shadyside
Cost: 
Free

For the Love of Water: How did a Handful of Corporations Steal our Water?

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 02/16/2013 - 16:00

Pitt Global Brigades and Engineers without Borders present the documentary "FLOW (For the Love of Water): How did a handful of corporations steal our water?" Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Prefaced by a discussion and presentation by Amizade: Global Service Learning, an NGO based in downtown Pittsburgh implementing international water projects.

Location: 
William Pitt Union Ballroom

Postales de Leningrado / Postcards from Leningrad (Venezuela, 2002)

Presenter: 
Director: Mariana Rondón
Event Status: 
Canceled
Date: 
Thu, 03/28/2013 - 18:30

Costumes, hiding places and fake names are the day to day of the GIRL who narrates this story. Alongside her cousin Teo, they reinvent the adventures of their guerrilla parents, building a fantastic labyrinth of superheroes and strategies around the armed subversion, where the line between reality and madness is hardly perceptible. But the child’s game is incapable of hiding the death, torture, accusations and treason involving the guerrillas. The children dream of becoming The Invisible Man, in order to be safe and out of harm’s way.

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (room 125)
Cost: 
free
Contact Person: 
Mildred López
Contact Email: 
mfl12@pitt.edu

Las Malas Intenciones / The Bad Intentions (Perú, 2011)

Presenter: 
Director: Rosario García Montero
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 02/27/2013 - 18:30

The Bad Intentions is a brilliant coming-of-age story that is funny, subtle, touching, and one of the best films of the year. Growing up in a bourgeois house in 1981 Lima, 8 year old Cayetana spends a lot of time with herself. She is perhaps the most serious little girl seen on screen in a long time, idolizing Peruvian independence heroes from the past, focusing in particular on how they met their end. Dream sequences are delved into sporadically at first but more frequently as the film goes on.

Contact Person: 
Mildred López
Contact Email: 
mfl12@pitt.edu

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