Wednesday, May 1 from 4:30-6:30 pm, in the McCormick Screening Room with Reception at the Anthill Pub to follow
Join us as FMS alum Rooth Tang (class of 2001) screens his latest film, Rally (2023), and takes us through the steps of how to make a documentary film, and explains his journey to becoming a film director and editor after he graduated from UCI.
More about the film:
Rally, which debuted last year at the San Francisco Film Festival, is about Rose Pak, a divisive character who dedicated her life to improving conditions in her community. Rose Pak was an atypical kingmaker. An immigrant from China, she started as a journalist and activist but found her greatest success as a controversial power broker who orchestrated the election of Ed Lee, the first Chinese American mayor of San Francisco, her crowning achievement. Watch the trailer of the film here, and read more about the film here.
More about the filmmaker:
Born in Bangkok and raised in Los Angeles, Rooth is an international filmmaker crisscrossing between Asia, Europe, and the US. His work as an editor includes the Sundance award-winning feature Gook (2017). He made his own feature directing debut with the narrative Sway (2014). Rally is his first documentary.
This event is cosponsored by the Departments of Film and Media Studies and Asian American Studies, the Humanities Center, and the Office of the Equity Advisor of the School of Humanities.