8Asians: SF Film Festival: A Tribute to Joan Chen - Joan Chen interview by Janet Yang

SF Film Festival: A Tribute to Joan Chen - Joan Chen interview by Janet Yang (president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
A Tribute to Joan Chen + “Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl”
San Francisco Film Festival
Sunday, April 28, 2024
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Tribute
Join us as we pay tribute to actor/director/writer/producer Joan Chen with an intimate conversation celebrating her extraordinary career and special 35 mm screening of her debut feature Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
Joan Chen made her screen debut at 15 with Youth (1976), rocketing to stardom in her native China before relocating to the United States where she broke through to American audiences with roles in The Last Emperor (1987) and the David Lynch series Twin Peaks (1989-1991). She continues to act, most recently appearing in Festival opener Dìdi (弟弟) but she has also built careers as a screenwriter, producer, and director. Her debut feature Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (Festival 1998) received a Film Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Feature-Over $500,000 and won five Golden Horse Film Festival Awards, including Best Director and Best Feature Film. She went on to direct Autumn in New York (2000); Shanghai Strangers (2012), a short; The Iron Hammer (2020), a documentary; and a segment of Hero (2022). In 2014, SFFILM honored her as Essential SF.