AT Palm Springs International Film Festival (4)
Lisa and "Nainai"
We had our second sold-out screening at the Regale 9 theatre on Tuesday, Jan. 10. I watched the film on the large screen for the 5th time and found myself still shedding tears at a few scenes that were so personal to me.
We had a long and animated Q & A session after the screening. A special surprise and delight for me for this screening was to meet “Nainai”, who was 80 years old. Her daughter and son-in-law accompanied her all the way from Los Angeles to attend the screening. I loved her grandmotherly image in the film and was thrilled to hug her and call her “Nainai.”
At Regale 9 Theater
I was able to watch a couple of other films at the Festival while Lisa worked away at her computer or on conference calls most of the time, taking care of her daytime job. During the first 4 days of the film festival, we had two television interviews with KVCR_TV host Gloria Greer and local CBS, and two radio interviews with Charlie Dyer and Bill Feingold at KNEWS FM 94.3, and attended Variety‘s photo op at the critics’ award luncheon where we faced numerous cameras like a movie star.
We received a lot of positive feedback on the film from fellow filmmakers, festival staff and the audience. We also got several invitations to attend other film festivals. We were thrilled by the response.
Jian Ping, author of Mulberry Child: A Memoir of China, which has been developed into a feature-length documentary film by Susan Morgan Cooper and narrated by Jacqueline Bisset.
