“1428″ – A Documentary on the Sichuan Earthquake, Coming Soon to the Los Angeles Film Festival
June 6, 2010 | Asia Edition, Entertainment, Events | 1 Comment
Presented by dGenerate Films and CNEX
1428, directed by Du Haibin, won the Best Documentary Award at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival, and enjoyed its US premiere in the Documentary Fortnight Festival at MoMA New York. This stunning film explores the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that shook China’s Sichuan province two years ago, causing 70,000 deaths and 375,000 casualties.
The Great Sichuan Earthquake took place at 14:28 on May 12, 2008. Within a few days, victims were reduced to salvaging destroyed pig farms, pillaging homes, and recovering scrap metal for the equivalent of a few pennies. Seven months later, as villagers are preparing for the Lunar New Year and waiting for promised refugee housing, Haibin goes far beyond the earthquake’s official portrayal in mainstream media. New Year‘s Day becomes a never-ending parade of tourists buying DVDs of the most horrific scenes, souvenir albums of corpses being pulled out of the ruins, and photo-taking in front of Beichuan, the most devastated town, where tens of thousands of people perished in seconds.
Watch a CNN profile of 1428:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/27/china.sichuan.1428/index.html
Profile of 1428 in LAFF Film Guide:
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/films/0473
JOIN US AT THE FOLLOWING SCREENINGS:
SUNDAY, JUNE 20th, 1:45pm
MONDAY, JUNE 21st, 8:00pm
Screenings will be located at:
Regal Cinemas 14 @ L.A. Live
1000 W Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Written and Directed by Du Haibin
Produced by Ben Tsiang
Cinematography by Li Ai’guo
Edited by Mary Stephens
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