Thursday, April 7
1:30-5:00pm (followed by reception)
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Pape Reception Room
Free Admission

The Cinema Pacific Industry Symposium is an annual mini-conference within Cinema Pacific featuring major film industry professionals and academic scholars exploring global film business relationships. This year, the focus is on the U.S. and Chinese film industries and their intersections. The Symposium is organized by the School of Journalism and Communication and hosted by Professor Janet Wasko, Knight Chair in Communication Research and co-author or editor of fourteen books including Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy and How Hollywood Works.

1:30pm: A CONVERSATION WITH TERENCE CHANG

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Terence Chang studied architecture at the University of Oregon and film at NYU before returning to Asia. Chang produced John Woo’s iconic Hong Kong action films, including 1991’s Once a Thief, Hard Boiled, and Hard Target, and his U.S. productions Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Windtalkers, and Mission Impossible II, featuring stars Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, and John Travolta. Recently, Chang and Woo returned to China to make Woo’s dream project, the epic Red Cliff, and the new martial arts film Reign of Assassins starring Michelle Yeoh.

We are honored to welcome Terence Chang back to Eugene and the University of Oregon in his first visit since 1974. Chang’s colleague and friend, Michael Andreen, senior vice president of international production at Disney and also an alumnus of the University, will moderate the conversation.

 

 

2:45pm: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID LINDE

David Linde was born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, the son of legendary jurist and UO Law Professor Hans Linde. After supervising international sales at Paramount, Linde joined Miramax Pictures in 1991 and  rose to the position of Executive Vice President. In 1997, Linde became co-president of Good Machine International, which handled the international distribution of hits like Crouching Tiger, Dancer in the Dark, and Y Tu Mama Tambien. Linde then became co-president of Focus Features, where he oversaw such films as Brokeback Mountain and Lost in Translation. He became co-chair of Universal Pictures in 2006, where he green-lit such films as The Bourne Ultimatum and Knocked Up, and Universal experienced its two most successful years of its 100-year history. After leaving Universal in late 2009, Linde formed a new production company called Lava Bear and is developing global film projects, including the new Zhang Yimou feature starring Christian Bale, The Thirteen Flowers of Nanjing.

We are proud to welcome David Linde back to Eugene, where he will join festival director Richard Herskowitz for a conversation about his career in international film production and distribution.

4:00pm:  MIRROR IMAGES OR IMPERSONATION? China’s Film Industry and Hollywood

A talk by Darrell William Davis, Lingnan University

Darrell William Davis, a leading scholar of Asian film, will close the first Cinema Pacific Industry Symposium with a talk on China’s film industry and its relationship to Hollywood.

Davis is Honorary Associate Professor in Visual Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film (1996), co-author of Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (2005) and East Asian Screen Industries (2008), and co-editor of Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts (2007).

The talk will be followed by a reception hosted by the UO Cinema Studies Program.

Cosponsored with the Governor’s Office for Film and Television.