Pac Arts Spring Showcase: Spark (星火)

Spark was an underground magazine published in 1960 by four young intellectuals who wanted to expose the devastating famine caused by Mao?s Great Leap Forward, a horrendous period of national suffering that is still unmentioned in China?s history textbooks today. This is filmmaking as urgent historical investigation: with a shoestring budget Hu Jie combines years of research, and a knack for getting people to talk without fear about the most taboo subjects in China?s recent past. His alternative oral history approach knits together courageous and frequently moving interviews with the magazine?s surviving editor, supporters, and readers, who were ready to sacrifice themselves to alert their countrymen to unprecedented disaster. ?Shelly Kraicer, co-organizer of Cinema on the Edge

Sunday, May 1 - 5:10 PM

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