See It Again: Come Together Home

Just wanted to post up another one for filmmaker Ivy Lin that if you missed out her latest film the first time around - don't worry about it - because you can see it again if your down Portland way.

December 4th, Friday, 7pm
5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall St., Portland, OR 97209
*Q&A with the director following the screening

Synopsis

Block 14 in Lone Fir Cemetery, the first Chinese burial ground in Portland—and site of as many as 1,500 burials—now stands as a fenced off void of gravel after most of the remains were exhumed and shipped back to China in 1928 & 1949.

Sixty years later, Director Ivy Lin follows the footsteps of the missing 1949 shipment in an extraordinary journey from Portland to Hong Kong.

Reminder Next Sunday: Come Together Home

You've heard me talk about filmmaker Ivy Lin and her projects before - and her latest project Come Together Home - and just wanted to post up a reminder that the screening is only week away.

"Come Together Home"
A documentary by Ivy Lin

Trailer
http://www.vimeo.com/6226018

Synopsis
Block 14 in Lone Fir Cemetery, the first Chinese burial ground in Portland—and site of as many as 1,500 burials—now stands as a fenced off void of gravel after most of the remains were exhumed and shipped back to China in 1928 & 1949.
Sixty years later, Director Ivy Lin follows the footsteps of the missing 1949 shipment in an extraordinary journey from Portland to Hong Kong.

World Premiere
October 11th, Sunday, 7pm
Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
*Q&A with the director following the screening
**Free admission, donations welcomed for "Block 14 Memorials Fund", raised by Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery.**

Get your calendars ready.

Ivy Lin & Come Together Home

I wrote up on filmmaker Ivy Lin when she did her documentary on the disappearing Chinatown in Portland (Pig Roast & Tank of Fish), and now she's following it up with Come Together Home - and from the trailer - it looks pretty damn good.

Death. Disinterment. Reburial.

Discover the remains of early Chinese immigrants, and their extraordinary final journey from Portland to Hong Kong.

Block 14 in Lone Fir Cemetery, the first Chinese burial ground in Portland—and site of as many as 1,500 burials—now stands as a fenced off void of gravel after most of the remains were exhumed and shipped back to China in 1928 & 1949.
Sixty years later, Director Ivy Lin follows the footsteps of the missing 1949 shipment in an extraordinary journey from Portland to Hong Kong.

Check It Out



Premieres

Sunday October 11th @ 7pm
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave.
Portland, OR
97209

Q&A with the director following the screening

Free admission, donations welcomed for "Block 14 Memorials Fund", raised by Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery.

Check It Out Before It's Gone: Pig Roast & Tank of Fish

You've heard me talk about Ivy Lin's documentary Pig Roast & Tank of Fish in a previous post and I got word (thanks Ivy) that while it may be playing again, this could be one of the last showings of the film which looks at Portland's Chinatown.

Here are the details on the show:

Thursday, 4/22, 4:30pm
Portland Development Commission,
222 NW 5th Ave.
Q&A after the screening

watch the trailer here-
http://www.vimeo.com/1676699

It premiered on 09/28/08 at Someday Lounge in Old Town/Chinatown to an audience of over 200. It was also chosen to be screened at the 35th NW Film & Video Film Festival on 11/15/08. The third screening was held at U of O at White Stag on 01/21/09. 250 people attended.

Director’s Biography

Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Ivy Lin has been living in the United States since 1989. She moved to Portland, OR from the Midwest in 2002.

Ivy works at ad agency Wieden+Kennedy and has been an independent documentary producer since 2000. She learned how to make documentaries from working at two local PBS-affiliated TV stations-WILL-TV (Urbana, IL) and SC ETV (Spartanburg, SC) from 1994-1999.

In 2007, Ivy directed and produced Knowing All of You Like I Do, a documentary about the closing and deconstruction of the record store Music Millennium NW (the oldest independent record store in the Pacific Northwest), chosen to be screened at the Reel Music Festival 2008.

So if you've wanted to check it out - now's the time to do it - and you get to support some Asian American film.

35th NW Film Festival: Pig Roast & Tank of Fish

In a previous post I had talked about Ivy Lin's new documentary Pig Roast & Tank of Fish about Portland's Chinatown and just wanted to post up that it's going to be shown down at the 35th NW Film Festival. The tentative screening date/time is Saturday, 11/15, 4:40pm, but make sure to check out the NW Film Festival site after 10/15 just in case the date/times happen to change.

More Asian Americans getting their film groove on - definitely cool.