A Second Heaping... What A Week!

Links, Ponders, & Wonders, 12.5.24 Edition

It is not too late… Get Your Tickets for INVISIBLE NATION

Limited Time Only Virtual Screening!!!

Now thru December 9th! Only on GATHR!

Tickets here: https://gathr.com/vod/a998bc7e/invisible-nation

INVISIBLE NATION just got 4 Stars from the Financial Times!

https://www.ft.com/content/30adb225-8698-4924-9072-fefe25d3bd67

The next wave of reports about Chinese aggression against Taiwan is upon us: when Taiwan’s president Lai Ching-te returns from his first overseas trip in office this Friday, Beijing is expected to unleash another big military exercise around his country, which it claims as its own and vows to bring under its control. But this time, a global audience can see and hear Taiwan’s own story via Invisible Nation, a tour de force through the country’s democracy, history, social and economic achievements and international isolation. If there is one recurring message in Vanessa Hope’s documentary, it is that “Taiwan exists”, as Tsai Ing-wen, president until May this year, says, and Taiwanese politicians, voters, activists and scholars repeat it time and again throughout the 85-minute film. The need to emphasise this to the global public is evident to those who know the country well: China’s decades-long efforts to deny Taiwan international recognition and participation and to prohibit it from being called by its own name have rendered it practically invisible and left many other countries ignorant about it. Hope’s film can help change that. ★★★★☆ Streaming in the UK and US December 6-9; invisiblenation.net

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Join me in LA for IndieCollect’s RescueFest this weekend

RESCUE FEST celebrates 10 glorious 4K restorations of indie movies that couldn’t be seen in a high-quality format until now. Some of the negatives were physically lost for decades. All were restored by nonprofit IndieCollect. Highlights include:

Cannes Camera d’Or winner Northern Lights, soon to be released by Kino Lorber
Director’s Cut of Nationtime by William Greaves, lost for nearly 50 years
Melvin Van Peebles’ debut The Story of a Three Day Pass
Closing Night Gala Screening of Shadow Magic, Ann Hu’s valentine to the birth of cinema, in release via Sony Pictures Classics.

RESCUE FEST also features “Reel Resistance” Roundtable on how to save indie films for the future with Keynote by acclaimed indie producer Ted Hope.

Sunday, 11:30am, December 8, at Laemmle Monica.

This event is FREE, but reservations required: https://www.classy.org/event/rescuefest-roundtable/e641461

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