Director Lixin Fan will be a special guest at tonight’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival Opening Night Gala.
Lixin will introduce his award-winning film, Last Train Home, and participate in a Q&A session with Human Rights Watch Media Director, Minky Worden.
Student tickets for the Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival are on sale for $5 at campus locations across the GTA.
For last minute orders, please e-mail any of the following student reps:
Humber College – Amy Rynsoever or Vanessa Richards – hrw.humbertickets@gmail.com
Ryerson Univerity – Jessica Holmes or Sachin Seth – humanrights@arts.ryerson.ca
University of Toronto — Jessika Berns – jessika.berns@utoronto.ca
York University – Amira Mohamed or Emile Wickham — filmfestivalyork@hotmail.com
The festival opens tomorrow evening with Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home.
Tickets are still available for the 6:30 screening at the Isabel Bader Theatre. Please call the TIFFG Box Office at 416-968-FILM or toll-free 1-877-968-FILM. Tickets can also be purchased online at tiff.net/cinematheque or in person at the theatre (night of show only).
Last Train Home hit the front page of The New York Times movie section this past Friday. Singled out in a feature by critic Manohla Dargis, the award-winning doc was described as “…beautifully shot, haunting and haunted.”
Read the complete article, Don’t Smirk, Sundance’s Roots Do Show, on The New York Times Website. (Note: Requires subscription)
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Last Train Home, which opens the 7th annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival, is one of 12 documentary films in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The festival opened last Thursday and continues until January 31st in Park City, Utah.
Feedback via Twitter after the film’s first screening on Friday was uniformly positive:
@povdocs … “Last Train Home debut @ Sundance incredibly well-received. Sundance shuttles a little bit like Guangzhou trains. Just a little.”
@BBC_MyWorld … “Last Train Home – amazing doc on 130m Chinese migrant workers”
@Cirincione … “Last Train Home at Sundance, a brilliant, brutal look at lives of China’s migrant workers. At the screening last night.”
@radafilmgroup … “saw Last Train Home last night. Absolutely brilliant. A must see. Congrats Lixin Fan!”
The film’s producers, EyeSteelFilm, have a twitter feed (@EyeSteelFilm) although posts are infrequent. For more current updates of what’s happening at Sundance with this (and other Canadian films), you may want to search the hashtag #CanadaAtSundance.
CityNews recently spoke with director Lixin Fan, who was born and raised in China before moving to Montreal to further his film career, about the process of making Last Train Home and what he hopes the audience will get from it. A transcript of the interview has been posted to CityNews.ca.
Lixin Fan will be present at the screening of Last Train Home, which opens the 7th annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival on February 24th.
