New York Rescues Beijing Independent Film Festival

The best of the Beijing Independent Film Festival, which was barricaded by officials in August 2014, comes to our shores this Summer thanks to a Kickstarter-funded repertory program in New York. From August 7 to September 13, Cinema on the Edge will screen a selection of films intended to be shown at Beijing across venues including the Anthology Film Archives, the Asia Society, Maysles Cinema at the Maysles Documentary Center, the Museum of Chinese in America and UnionDocs. “Seeing the empty shelves where they once had a giant collection of DVDs of experimental films and archives of their printed materials," Shelly Kraicer, a festival programmer of Chinese cinema, told The New York...

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