BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//http://www2.movingimage.us//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.23// X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260410T020852CEST-7044x9a9eJ@http://www2.movingimage.us DTSTAMP:20260410T000852Z DESCRIPTION:With director Nancy Kelly and producer Kenji Yamamoto\, QWFF Sp irit of Queens honorees in person. Welcome remarks by Sandra Schulberg\, E xecutive Director\, IndieCollect \n\n \; \n\nDir. Nancy Kelly. 1991\, 105 mins. World premiere of new 4K restoration by IndieCollect\, supervise d by the filmmaker. With Rosalind Chao\, Chris Cooper\, Michael Paul Chan\ , Dennis Dun. Set in a mining town in the 1880s\, Thousand Pieces of Gold was developed by the Sundance Institute and premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1990. It won immediate acclaim for its por trayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao)\, a young Chinese wo man whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficke d to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold country. Eventually Charlie\ , a man of different ilk\, played by Chris Cooper\, wins her in a poker ga me and slowly gains her trust. Way ahead of its time\, the film resonates even more powerfully today in the era of #MeToo. But Nancy Kelly became a victim of prejudice against women directors within the American film indus try\, and was never offered another movie to direct in spite of extraordin ary reviews from critics. The screening will be followed by a discussion w ith Kelly and Yamamoto\, moderated by Don Cato\, Artistic Director of Quee ns World Film Festival. \n\n\n“Independent in the best sense of the word\, Thousand Pieces of Gold gives us the Old West through a piece of candle-l it silk\, hardship diffused through tears and smoke. The landscapes are cl ear\, the action wedded to emotion. This is classic Western filmmaking: th e lucid lyricism of a John Ford\, a Budd Boetticher\, a George Stevens. Bu t\, since Kelly is dealing with different kinds of conflicts\, the film al ways seems to be opening up a new world.”— Michael Wilmington\, Los Angele s Times \n\n\nTickets: $15 ($11 seniors and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17 ) / free for Museum members at the Film Lover and Kids Premium levels and above). Order tickets online. (Members may contact members@movingimage.us with questions regarding online reservations.) \n\n\nTicket purchase inclu des same-day admission to the Museum (see gallery hours). View the Museum’ s ticketing policy here. For more information on membership and to join on line\, visit our membership page \n\n\nAbout Nancy Kelly: A native of Nort h Adams\, Massachusetts\, Nancy Kelly is self-taught. As a public health e ducator\, she was hired to produce five short dramas about how to drink re sponsibly. Having fallen in love with filmmaking\, she quit her job and mo ved to the high desert on the California/Nevada border. Though she had nev er ridden a horse or made a documentary\, she learned to do both\, making her living as a ranch hand while she shot A Cowhand's Song and Cowgirls. B oth films won awards. Kelly discovered Ruthanne Lum McCunn's novel Thousan d Pieces of Gold while touring with Cowgirls\, and immediately saw it as a narrative feature. She and Kenji Yamamoto\, her husband and filmmaking pa rtner\, spent six years financing the film with support from American Play house Theatrical Films\, CPB\, Film Four International and private investo rs. Although Kelly's career as a movie director stalled—the victim of sexi sm that stymies the career of so many women—she continued to direct docume ntary films\, including Rebels with a Cause\, Downside UP\, Smitten\, and Trust: Second Acts in Young Lives. She is currently developing When We Wer e Cowgirls\, a feminist adventure story loosely based on her own experienc es as a ranch hand. Kelly's work has been supported by the Ford Foundation \, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, ITVS\, National Endowme nt for the Humanities and California Humanities. She has won artist-in-res idence fellowships at Yaddo\, UCross\, the MacDowell Colony and the Banff Center for the Arts. When not in production\, she teaches filmmaking at th e California College of the Arts. \n\n\nAbout Kenji Yamamoto: Kenji Yamamo to and Nancy Kelly have been partnered in life and work since 1980\, when they decided to make a movie based on the novel\,Thousand Pieces of Gold. Yamamoto served as producer and editor of the film. He is currently making his directorial debut with Hacker House\, about a Spanish entrepreneur wh o risks everything on a Silicon Valley incubation hive where he plays 'fat her' to dozens of nascent entrepreneurs\, while neglecting his own childre n back home in Madrid. A California native\, Kenji Yamamoto studied painti ng\, photography and filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute and lat er made narratives and documentaries\, mainly about people on the fringes of society. He participated in the Sundance Institute Documentary Editing Lab with Jennifer Maytorena's New Muslim Cool and won an artist-in-residen ce fellowship at the Banff Centre for the Arts. \n DTSTART:20190326T190000 DTEND:20190326T213000 LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater SUMMARY:Thousand Pieces of Gold END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR