FCC October 30 -- Shanghai, Waiting for Paradise October 30, 2007

The Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club presents

Shanghai, Waiting for Paradise

A film by Sylvie Levey - screening and discussion



MoCA Shanghai

7p.m., Tuesday, October 30 (screening and talk 7:30-9pm)



A first chance to see the latest - and long-awaited - documentary by the FCC’s own Sylvie Levey. The result of six years of painstaking filming, Shanghai, Waiting for Paradise follows the lives of the Wang family, three generations living under the same roof in the Old City, as they face the imminent demolition of their house - and dream of a new life. Theirs is a world within a world (a few square meters on a street corner) condemned to vanish in the name of modernization. Awarded a grant by La Sociéte Civile des Auteurs Multimedia (the governmental Copyright Society in France), Shanghai Waiting for Paradise is a remarkable portrait of a family, as they share their views on life, love...and international relations.



Venue details: MoCA Shanghai,

2/F, inside People's Park, 231 Nanjing Xi Lu, by Huangpi Lu (Tel: 6327 1282)

南京西路231号人民公园内，上海当代艺术馆2楼



Admission : Members free; Non-members 50 RMB



RSVP: Jessie Zhou: [email protected]. The venue only holds 50 people, so first come first served.

For more information about this event contact Media Representative Rebecca Catching, [email protected]



About the speaker:
A talented and fearless documentary maker, Sylvie Levey has tackled such issues as SARS, plastic surgery and the One Child Policy and interviewed a range of personalities including Benazir Bhutto and Rajiv Gandhi. Her documentary, The Unique Destiny of Colonel Jin Xing has been broadcast in 20 countries around the world and was awarded by “Prix Spécial du Jury - FIGRA in 2002” – and was previously shown by the FCC, as was Levey’s award-winning documentary, High Crimes in Shanghai, which offered a rare and probing glimpse behind the doors of a female prison. Shanghai, Waiting for Paradise, promises to be equally illuminating.

Official Website: http://www.fccsh.org