![]() ![]() She co-directed the short IT'S COMING! (2020), and ROUTINE ISLAND (2019). Her award-winning short COMMODITY CITY (2017) is an observational documentary about the world’s largest wholesale mall in Yiwu, China and played at over 50 film festivals. The film has received nominations from the Spirit Awards, the Gotham and the International Documentary Association along with five Cinema Eye nominations and six Critic’s Choice nominations. Her first documentary feature, ASCENSION登楼叹 (2021), won awards for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Festival and Hamptons International Film Festival as well as Best Editing at DOC NYC. Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director/producer named one of “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list. Registration will still be allowed even after all of the screening tickets are distributed for those that wish to join the live discussion. Tickets are limited and on a first come first serve basis. The film will be available to watch from February 18th to the 25th. In traveling up the rungs of China’s social ladder, we see how each level supports and makes possible the next while recognizing the contemporary “Chinese Dream” remains an elusive fantasy for most.Īfter registering for the event you will be sent an email with links to watch the film and join the live discussion. Accordingly, the film is structured in three parts, ascending through the levels of the capitalist structure: workers running factory production, the middle-class training for and selling to aspirational consumers, and the elites reveling in a new level of hedonistic enjoyment. The documentary portrays capitalism in China across the levels of its operation, from the crudest mine to the most rarefied forms of leisure. ASCENSION has just been nominated for an Academy Award in the feature documentary category! See all nominations including ASCENSION here.ĪSCENSION is an impressionistic portrait of China’s industrial supply chain that reveals the country’s growing class divide through staggering observations of labor, consumerism, and wealth. ![]()
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