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The Years Flow Like Water
premieres at the 2008 Asian American International
Film Festival as part of a program of shorts
about courage and personal growth in the face of challenges. The film is
followed by a Q&A.
Qian Yi stars as Precious Auntie in The Bonesetter's
Daughter, an innovative new opera about the Chinese immigrant experience.
Based on the best-selling Amy Tan novel, The
Bonesetter's Daughter combines Chinese and Western
styles and features a libretto by Tan. The show premieres at the San
Francisco Opera in fall 2008.
In her second original work titled Fox Spirit,
Qian Yi weaves together seven short stories into a single narrative that
reveals fragments from an artist’s life. A work about magic and discovery
in the present world, Fox Spirit
is currently in development.
Qian Yi joins Meryl Streep and Aiden Quinn in Dark
Matter, director Chen Shi-Zheng's film about a brilliant young Chinese
astrophysicist who goes on a shooting spree after his American dream goes
awry. Dark Matter
is the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature
Film Prize at the 2007
Sundance Film Festival, and opens in theatres
in April 2007.
Qian Yi performs opposite acclaimed Chinese opera star Wu Hsing Kuo (Legend
of the Green Snake, The
First Emperor) in The
Contemporary Legend Theater premiere of Butterfly
Dream. Commissioned for the Taiwan's National
Theater as part of their 20th anniversary celebration,
the production is “one of the most highly anticipated theatrical events
of the year."
An Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival,
Triple Eight Palace tells the story of a Chinese-American
girl struggling to find her way out of a violent Chinese-American subculture.
Alexander Ku directs Qian Yi in this award winning film.
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