Sway - Screening and Q&A with director
Department: Film and Media Studies
Date and Time: September 27, 2018 | 6:30 PM-8:30 PMEvent Location: McCormick Screening Room (HG 1070)
Event Details
The Department of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine is pleased to invite you to a special screening of
SWAY
Director: Rooth Tang
Cast: Matt Wu / Huang, Lu / Ananda Everingham / Sajee Apiwong / Kazuhiko Nishimura / Kris Wood-Bell
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Part of the official selection for Toronto International Film Festival, Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival, and Shanghai International Film Festival, Rooth Tang’s first feature length film ‘Sway’ looks at how globalization has made the world so small, yet it can still feel so vast. An affecting drama that follows lives of three couples living in three worldly cities, Sway reflects on the excitements and struggles of immigrant experience in the age of globalization when individuals have become more mobile but also more rootless than ever. In Paris, Arthur tries to convince his girlfriend to return to Asia together with him before his visa expires. In Bangkok, June ponders her future with husband Palm in America. And in Los Angeles, Amanda tries to fit into the family of a Japanese widower still haunted by their loss.
September 27th, McCormick Theater (HG1070), 6:30 pm - screening and Q&A with the director!
"...inspired by Wong Kar-Wai and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the globe-jumping picture is clearly intelligent." — The Hollywood Reporter
Born in Bangkok and raised in Los Angeles, Rooth Tang studied film at UCI, and became an international filmmaker crisscrossing between Asia and the U.S. His feature film directing debut, SWAY, had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and its Asian premiere at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. In 2007, he was invited to participate in the Tribeca Film Festival's All Access program for his science fiction drama screenplay, THE VITRUVIAN MAN. In that same year, his short film RADIANCE opened the Turks and Caicos Film Festival, a festival that celebrates music in films. His follow-up short film, NURTURE, premiered at the 2010 Palm Springs International Shortfest Film Festival.