Film Screening: Rainmakers
VIEW EVENT DETAILSPart of the 2011 Margaret Mead Film Festival
This program is co-presented by Margaret Mead Film Festival and Asia Society
at Kaufmann Theater, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY
Dir. Floris-Jan van Luyn. China, The Netherlands. 2009. 70 min.
Filmmaker in person | U.S. Premiere
Filmmaker and journalist Floris-Jan van Luyn is on the front lines of modern China, depicting the country's major historical shifts through the experiences of the individuals living through them. In Rainmakers, he introduces us to four ordinary people who have become environmental activists out of necessity. Kept awake at night by the noxious fumes of a garbage incinerator, a Beijing woman unites her neighbors in a mass protest. A fisherwoman in a southern province circulates a petition to clean up the river polluted by a nearby paint factory. A tough-minded housewife from Hunan writes letter after letter to officials demanding the shutdown of a nearby factory poisoning her village's groundwater. A small community of shepherds in Inner Mongolia devise a plan to reclaim desiccated pastureland. While the government pays lip service to green economic policies, these hopeful citizens brave bureaucracy, cynicism, greed, and violence in their fight for the most basic of human rights: clean air and clean water.
Tickets discount for Asia Society members: $10 for regular screenings; $12 for opening and closing films. Discount available for phone (212-769-5200) and walk-in purchases only.
Watch a trailer:
Rainmakers: 10-minute preview from SubmarineChannel on Vimeo.
Event Details
Kaufmann Theater, Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY