When: October 17, 2008 (Friday, 6:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor
Admission: $5 public, $3 member

*Note: We are no longer screening “Forbidden City, U.S.A.” on this date*

C4 is pleased to present “Made in China” (2008). Filmmaker John Helde sets out to understand his father Tom’s remarkable childhood as a white American growing up in 1930’s China. Navigating his father’s reticence, he tracks down Tom’s China-born peers, a unique community of Americans who grew up with a foot in two cultures. Read More »

When: October 3, 2008 (Friday, 6:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco
Admission: $5 public, $3 member
C4 is happy to present “Morning Sun” 八九点钟的太阳 (2003) in English.

“Gripping, relentlessly tragic retelling of life in revolutionary times.” – Hua Hsu, Village Voice

Morning Sun attempts to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes – and reflected in the hearts and minds – of members of the high-school generation that was born around the time of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 Read More »

C4: Chinese Culture Center Cinema

More information to come.

When: September 13, 2008 (Saturday, 1:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 4th Floor, “Pine” meeting room, San Francisco
Admission: FREE (RSVP Encouraged)

Chinese Culture Center Cinema (C4) is pleased to present a special installment of our current film festival. Alongside our screening of Farming the Seas, we are holding a workshop to discuss and learn about the issues facing seafood resources and their relevance to us as individuals and as a community. Read More »

When: September 5, 2008 (Friday, 6:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco
Admission: $5 public, $3 member
The Chinese Culture Center is pleased to present “Colonel Jin Xing: A Unique Destiny” 上尉金星 (2001). The film will be played in English.
Co-presenters: GAPA(Gay Asian Pacific Alliance), APIQWTC(Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community), ON Magazine, QWOCMAP(Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project).

Shanghai’s principal dancer, 33-year-old Jin Xing, is a big star. She is the first choreographer to have received recognition in over half a century of national communism. But the most amazing thing about Jin Xing is that, up until 1995, this beautiful young woman was a man, a colonel in the People’s Liberation Army. Despite Jin Xing’s transcendence in the dance world, however, she is still up against the Chinese bureaucracy which refuses to give her permission to perform on the stages of the Western world. Read More »

When: August 29, 2008 (Friday, 6:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco
Admission Fee: $5 public, $3 member
C4 is proud to present the US Premier “Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul”, AKA In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul 寻找林昭的灵魂 (2004) in Mandarin with English subtitles.

This documentary film is about the outstanding Beijing University student Lin Zhao, who was labeled a rightist when she criticized the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1950s. She was imprisoned and later executed. In Philip Pan’s recent book “Out of Mao’s Shadow”, two chapters were written about this documentary, quoting the filmmaker Hu Jie about Lin Zhao: “(the film is) inspired by her courage, and her uncompromising sense of justice… It was extraordinary that a great woman like Lin Zhao once lived in China… I thought she was a national treasure.”

This film is co-presented by WACSF (World Affairs Council San Francisco),AAWAA(Asian American Women Artists Association), IMOW (International Museum of Women), OACC(Oakland Asian Cultural Center), CCS(Center for Chinese Study) in UC Berkeley.

For more information about C4, and a listing of the entire year’s program, visit our 2008 Film Series page.



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When: July 12, 2008 (begins 12:00 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco
Admission: $5 public, $3 member

C4 is pleased to present “Gate of Heavenly Peace” (1995), a film by Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon. This film will be the longer version of 189 minutes, played in some Mandarin & English with English subtitles. Read More »

Date: July 1, 2008, Tuesday
Time: 6:00-7:30 PM
Location: Variety Club Preview Room
582 Market St (between Montgomery and Sansome)
San Francisco, CA
Admission: $10 Asia Society/Co-Sponsor Members
$15 Non-Members

Event proceeds will be donated to help the earthquake victims in Sichuan, China.

In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake in Sichuan province and on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, Discovery Channel Managing Editor Ted Koppel presents Koppel on Discovery: “The People’s Republic of Capitalism.” Read More »

When: June 20, 2008 (begins 5:30 pm)
Where: Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor, San Francisco
Admission: $5 public, $3 member

C4 is pleased to present “Summer Palace” (2006), a film by Lou Ye, for its next installment. This film will be played in Mandarin with English subtitles.

Banned by the Chinese government, this powerful drama follows rebellious young Yu Hong as she leaves her small village and her family behind to attend Beijing University in the late 1980s. As her tumultuous relationships with two different men reflects the turmoil gripping her country, she begins to become overwhelmed by chaos. (Note: Due to its graphic nature, this film is suggested for mature audiences only.)

For more information about C4, and a listing of the entire year’s program, visit our 2008 Film Series page. Read More »

草根獨立電影及其對華人當代文化的影響
C4 Film Screening & Panel Discussion
June 7th, 2008; 2:30 pm
Admission: $5 public; $3 member
Chinese Culture Center, Hilton Hotel (3rd Floor)
750 Kearny Street, San Francisco

Grassroots Filmmaking and its impact on contemporary Chinese culture: Grassroots filmmaking is becoming increasingly significant to Chinese and Chinese American communities as many up and coming social movements are being spearheaded, explored, and grounded through this medium. Acknowledging the growing importance of the grassroots genre, the June 7th launching of 2008’s Chinese Culture Center Cinema program showcases two unique independent short films, Red Thread, and Have Food Will Travel.
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