Asian Film Festival 2010: Visualizing Tibet: Song of Tibet (Xie Fei, 2000, 95 min.)

• Event Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010
• Time: 9:20 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Film

Directed by one of China's most established directors, Xie Fei, Song of Tibet covers the last half of 20th century Tibetan history (begun in the earlier film Serfs) through the story of a Tibetan woman and her romantic involvement with three men. Filmed in Tibet with an all-Tibetan cast.

All Festival films are in Chinese or Tibetan with English subtitles. Seating will be first come, first served, and theater will be cleared between screenings.

Special Guests: Elliot Sperling, Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Arjia Rinpoche, Director, Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, IN Lynn True, Film Director, Summer Pasture

Co-sponsors: Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), Weber State University, Kham Film Project, AsiaPacificFilms, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies UI

Supported with funding from the U.S. Department of Education National Research Centers Program