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[EVENT POSTPONED] AsiaLENS - Americaville

Event Type
Film Screening
Sponsor
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies/Asian Educational Media Service; Spurlock Museum
Location
Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium (600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana)
Date
Apr 14, 2020   7:00 pm  
Cost
Free and open to the public
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50
Originating Calendar
CEAPS Events Calendar

[EVENT POSTPONED]

Americaville (trailer) from Adam James Smith on Vimeo.

A feature documentary film on living the American dream in China's Wild West Hidden among the mountains north of Beijing, a replica of the Wyoming town of Jackson Hole promises to deliver the American dream to its several thousand Chinese residents. In Americaville, Annie Liu escapes China’s increasingly uninhabitable capital city to pursue happiness, freedom, romance, and spiritual fulfillment in Jackson Hole; only to find the American idyll harder to attain than what was promised to her. (A film by Adam James Smith 2020. 80 minutes.)

Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Adam James Smith

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