Previous Screenings
Since premiering at the Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival in 2017, Guangzhou Dream Factory has screened at festivals, museums, universities, and academic conferences around the world. We feel honored that we were able to screen the film multiple times in Africa and in China (and Hong Kong), where audiences were particularly enthusiastic. Traveling over three years with the film, and participating in dozens of panels and discussions, was an immensely rewarding experience. Viewers in multiple countries told us how they recognized their own life experiences in the stories they saw in the Guangzhou Dream Factory. Whether people immigrate to the United States, Europe, Asia, or across the African continent, the stories of struggling, striving and belonging are universal.
When the Covid epidemic spread, our in-person screenings stopped. We continued, however, to screen the film virtually in the U.S., Europe and China.
Notable past in-person screening events include:
U.C. Berkeley, International and Area Studies, Berkeley, CA, February 2020
Confucius Institute, University of Naples, Naples, Italy, May 2019
Universidad Autonoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, May 2019
Willamette University, Salem, OR, March 2019
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, March 2019
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, March 2019
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, February 2019
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, January 2019
Hong Kong Museum of History (sponsors: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Anthropological Society), Hong Kong, China, December 2018
Kente & Silk screening, Beijing, China, December 2018
Communications University, Beijing, China, December 2018
Peking University, Beijing, China, December 2018
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, November 2018
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 2018
The Smithsonian Museum (Freer/Sackler and the National Museum of African Art), Washington, D.C., October 2018
Confucius Institute, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY, October 2018
Pictures in Motion. Of Motion. For Motion. Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, New York, NY, October 2018
Brandeis University, East Asia Colloquium, Waltham, MA, September 2018
5e Rencontres des Études Africaines en France, Marseille, France, July 2018
Blackness and the Asian Century Conference, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, June 2018
Africa House/NYU, New York, NY, April 2018
Mt. Holyoke College, Five Colleges screening, South Hadley, MA, April 2018
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, April 2018
Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, April 2018
International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, special presentation: “Visualizing Mobility in the Global South”, San Francisco, CA, April 2018
Rethinking Migration: African Perspectives, PennState, State College, PA, March 2018
AsiaLENS Film Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2018
Chai – Chinese Documentary Film Festival, Leipzig, Germany, February 2018
New Parkway Theater, Oakland, California, January 2018
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, Official selection, December 2017
School of International Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, December 2017
The Center for African Film and TV Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua City, China, December 2017
The Times Museum, Guangzhou, China, December 2017
Northern California Fulbright Scholars Association, November 2017
Global Migration Film Series, Cologne, Germany, November 2017
African Studies Association Africa, Accra, Ghana, October 2017
United Nations Association Film Festival, Official selection, October 2017
Africa Rising Week, Creighton University, Featured film, September 2017
UC Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies, September 2017
Global Peace Film Festival, Official selection, September 2017
Zanzibar International Film Festival, Official selection, July 2017
European Conference on African Studies, Basel, Switzerland, July 2017
UCLA – Asia Pacific Center, Los Angeles, May 2017
Migration Dreams: Africans in China, University of Florida, April 2017
Oakland International Film Festival, Official Selection, April 2017
Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers, Culver City, CA, March 2017
CAAMFest, San Francisco, Official Selection, March 2017
AAS Film Expo 2017, Toronto, Canada, March 2017
Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival, Official Selection, February 2017
