LAST TRAIN HOME opens at the IFC Center tonight

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From: Human Rights Watch Film Festival <filmfestival@hrw.org>
Date: Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:33 AM
Subject: LAST TRAIN HOME opens at the IFC Center tonight
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Human Rights Watch Recommends: LAST TRAIN HOME Opening tonight at the IFC   IFC Center 323 6th Ave at West 3rd St 212-924-7771 For tickets visit: www.ifccenter.com Director Lixin Fan in person September 3 & 4. Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration—an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verité style Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan (with the producers of the award-winning hit documentary Up the Yangtze) travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like so many of China's rural poor, Zhang Changhua and Chen Suqin left behind their two infant children for grueling factory jobs. Their daughter Qin—now a restless and rebellious teenager—both bitterly resents their absence and longs for her own freedom away from school, much to the utter devastation of her parents. Emotionally engaging and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home's intimate observation of one fractured family sheds light on the human cost of China's ascendance as an economic superpower. To arrange for discounted tickets for groups of 10 or more, please contact Chris Wells, cwells@ifccenter.com or Harris Dew hdew@ifccenter.com 212-924-6789 VISIT THE FILM'S WEBSITE | BECOME A FAN OF THE FILM ON FACEBOOK "Filmmaker Lixin Fan may very well be one of modern-day China's great non-fiction storytellers.... LAST TRAIN HOME is a documentary masterpiece!" —Brian Brooks, INDIEWIRE "FIVE STARS (out of 5)! Within its first few minutes, Lixin Fan's documentary on 'the world's largest human migration' distinguishes itself as something more than your typical Dateline-ish social-issues missive. The attention to visuals is above and beyond what most vérité is capable of; doing double duty as the film's cinematographer, Fan demonstrates a pitch-perfect photojournalistic eye." —David Fear, TIME OUT NEW YORK A ZEITGEIST FILMS RELEASE

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