Since the early 1990s, independent filmmakers in China have presented some of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking visions on contemporary Chinese history and society. This multi-campus, six-film series aims to bring to students, scholars and the general public in the Greater Atlanta area recent representative works of this exciting cultural phenomenon. All films are free and open to the public.

Showcasing formal explorations in fiction, documentary, essay film, and even poetic film, this series delves into palpable personal realms of experience and consciousness in taking up history, memory and reality, covering, for example, the legal practice in a small town, the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province, the loss of myth, tradition and poetry in Ningxia Province, the inner journey of an abused teenage girl in Hunan Province, and most recently, the suggestive media surfaces and (sur)realities enveloping the southwest megalopolis of Chongqing that was famously caught in a strange chasm between socialism and capitalism. The films invite their audiences not only to experience these new sights and sounds from China but also to participate in the observing and thinking process that these independent visions set in motion.

The film series is sponsored and presented by the following organizations:

China Research Center (CRC, www.chinacenter.net)

Georgia Tech--the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication

Emory University--Department of Film and Media, Department of Anthropology, Confucius Institute

Georgia State University--Department of Communication, Confucius Institute

Kennesaw State University--Asian Studies Program and Student Organization of Asian Studies