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Local Sightings 2020 - THE WORLD IS BRIGHT [Online]
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
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Local Sightings 2020 - THE WORLD IS BRIGHT [Online]
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Sep. 18-27, 2020

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Ying Wang
Canada
2019
1h 55m
Festival - Local Sightings Film Festival 2020: Feature Films

When an elderly Beijing couple receives notice that their only son has allegedly committed suicide and has been buried on Canadian soil, they travel to Vancouver to investigate the mysterious circumstances of his death. Director Ying Wangs riveting docu-thriller guides the viewer down a rabbit hole of mental illness, the crushing wheels of Kafkaesque bureaucracy, and the vulnerability immigrants can face without cultural coping mechanisms. With the patience and insight of a master filmmaker, her film effortlessly synthesizes the themes of the stigma surrounding mental illness, the invisible mechanisms of control in our modern life, the dislocation produced through global migration, and the perpetual search for meaning into a single story of modest grandeur.

About the filmmaker:
A writer and photographer in China, Ying moved to Canada from Beijing in 1997 first as an international student then became a landed immigrant. As a migrant navigating between multiple cultures, Ying is fascinated by stories that reveal the geopolitical complexity of global migration. Her younger sister developed a mental illness after immigrating to North America. Inspired by her sisters experience, Ying wrote and directed her first feature film Sisters. The World is Bright is Yings second film tackling the topic of immigration and mental health from a broader sociocultural perspective.

Yings credits as a documentary filmmaker include producing Tricks on the Dead: The Story of Chinese Labour Corps in WWI, a Canada-China-France co-production that won two 2016 Canadian Screen Awards (Best Cinematography, Best Production Design), the 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival Audience Must See Award, and the 2015 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival Best International Production award.

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Northwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States

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Owner: Northwest Film Forum
On BPT Since: May 27, 2004
 
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www.nwfilmforum.org


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