film, directed by Adam James Smith
SESSION: Monday, October 19, 6:00
Followed by a Live Q&A: 7:20
Americaville
Hidden among the mountains north of Beijing, a replica of the Wyoming town of Jackson Hole promises to deliver the American Dream to its several thousand Chinese residents. In Americaville, Annie Liu escapes China's increasingly uninhabitable capital city to pursue happiness, freedom, romance, and spiritual fulfillment in Jackson Hole— only to find the American idyll harder to attain than what was promised.
ABOUT ADAM JAMES SMITH:
Adam James Smith is an award-winning, US-based filmmaker originally from the United
Kingdom. His films focus on the expression of identity in urban China and include The Land of Many Palaces (2015) co-directed with Song Ting, on the “ghost city” of Ordos, Inner Mongolia and his first solo-feature, Americaville (2020) on an American Wild West-themed community in Beijing’s suburbs. Adam holds degrees from Stanford and Cambridge, the latter of which he is currently an Affiliated Filmmaker at the university’s Visual Anthropology Lab.
AMERICAVILLE
