Cinema Thinks the World
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In Person: Julia Kwan

“An exceptional feature debut … Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately captured childhood.”

Ken Eisner, Variety

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of a homegrown classic, this edition of ​“Cinema Thinks the World” welcomes director Julia Kwan to discuss her stylishly shot charmer. Eve is set in a lovingly recreated early-1970s Vancouver and centres on precocious nine-year-old Eve (Phoebe Kut), ominously born in the Year of the Fire Horse—said to produce difficult children! She and older sister Karena (Hollie Lo) let their wild imaginations get the best of them as they fervently embrace Catholicism, Buddhism, and superstition (and sometimes a mixture of all three) in order to cope with several crises in their immigrant Chinese family. The film’s multiple awards include six Leos, a Special Jury Prize at Sundance, Most Popular Canadian Film honours at VIFF, and the Canadian Screen Award for best first feature.

This free screening is presented as part of ​“Cinema Thinks the World,” a partnership project between The University of British Columbia and The Cinematheque. After the film, there will be a short reception followed by a one-hour panel talk with audience discussion.

Introduced by Julia Kwan

Panelists: Grace Chin, Christine Kim, Natalie Murao, Danielle Wong

Acknowledgments

“Cinema Thinks the World” is sponsored by the Grant for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) at the University of British Columbia. Through a series of public screenings, panel talks, and discussions, it aims to explore the ways in which global cinema represents and helps us to think about the world.

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Grace Chin is a creative writer and editor, performer, producer, and arts administrator. She is the executive director of Crazy8s Film Society and was the festival director of the Vancouver Asian Film Festival; she has also served on the boards of Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre and Vancouver Asian Heritage Month.

Christine Kim is a professor in the Department of English Languages and Literatures and a faculty affiliate of UBC’s Asian Canadian Studies and Asian Migration program (ACAM). She is the author of The Minor Intimacies of Race (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and co-editor of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012).

Natalie Murao is a yonsei (fourth generation) Japanese Canadian filmmaker and educator based in “Vancouver.” She aims to expand the notion of Asian diasporic cinema by creating an in-betweenness of styles that embody the diaspora itself.

Danielle Wong is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program. Her research focuses on the analysis of race, empire, capitalism, and “new” technologies.

Upcoming in this Series

  • Eve And The Fire Horse 1
  • Eve and the Fire Horse
  • Canada2005
  • Julia Kwan
  • 92 35mm
  • PG
  • Cinema Thinks the World