Factory Boss: Movie Night with Director Zhang Wei

As part of internship program with University of Technology Sydney, we will be screening the movie, Factory Boss, at 7pm next Wednesday, January 13 at Day Day Up (http://rpresources.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ce3a94b207e784be333c38842&id=4cfd94867a&e=b6284f3a23), a co-working space in heart of Sanlitun. Movie director Zhang Wei will on hand to share his thoughts on making this award-winning movie and we have a few extra seats available. Due to limited space, RSVP required for admittance.
Introduction to Factory Boss:Factory Boss offers a rare first hand look at the realities and dark side China’s economic miracle from the perspective a factory owner.
Caught between a rock and a hard place — the paper-thin profit margins offered by Western conglomerates vs. rising worker demands at home — factory owner, Lin Dalin, the movie’s surprisingly sympathetic protagonist, inevitably winds up treating everyone unfairly, including himself. For growing ranks of China watchers, “Factory Boss” offers an engrossing expose of the built-in impasses of global economics from an unexplored perspective.
Director Zhang Wei’s own business experience adds a note of self-justification to the mix, his feel for the day-to-day pressures, compromises and difficulties of running a factory, at a time when the country’s “made in China” hegemony has begun to erode, proves wholly convincing. According to Variety, this lends the film an unmistakable authenticity as it presents the audience with a specific socioeconomic context for his endless, danger-fraught decision making.