Video: SinoVision TV Coverage of MoMA Premiere

SinoVision reporter Yizi Chen covered the world premiere at MoMA Documentary Fortnight.

SinoVision Coverage of MoMA premiere

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导演Lynne Sachs表示,她拍摄《你的白天是我的黑夜》的灵感来自多年前听亲戚谈起1960年代很多移民因经济窘迫,在一间屋子裡与许多人共享一张床垫为家的故事。她发现多年后,这个故事仍发生在很多移民的身上,尤其是华埠的新移民。

该片将7个人的故事通过共用的一个床位分别呈现,由七位普通华裔移民本色出演,方寸之间展现了华埠移民悠长辛酸历史。主演之一的华人黄云秀说,自己1995年移民来美,当初条件艰苦,在朋友的衣橱里一住就是三个月。

导演Lynn从2011年开始筹划拍摄,在去年上演了话剧版本,而电影版本在今天的第十二届MOMA纪录片电影节上首映。Lynn说,她希望更多的人能够了解移民的生活现状,她在四月还将带着这部电影参加多伦多电影节。(美国中文网 陈逸子)

Director Lynne Sachs said, she is filming the story of your day, my night “inspired by the many years of listening to relatives talk about the many immigrants in the 1960s because of economic distress, with many people in a room to share a mattress home. She discovered years later, the story still occurs in many immigrants who, especially new immigrants in Chinatown.

Film will be the story of seven people through shared a bed were presented starred by seven ordinary Chinese immigrants qualities of the confusion between Chinatown immigrants show a long bitterness history. The starring one Chinese Huang Yunxiu own immigration to the United States in 1995, had the difficult conditions, and lived there for three months in a friend’s closet.

Director Lynn from 2011 began to plan for shooting in the last year staged a drama version, the movie version of the twelfth MOMA Documentary Film Festival premiere. Lynn said she hoped that more people can understand the life situation of immigrants in April, she will also participate in the Toronto Film Festival with a movie. (American Chinese Chen Yizi)