Event Summary:

The West Coast "American Cinema Editors Presents" event will be a screening of the 1993 drama The Joy Luck Club followed by a conversation with editor Maysie Hoy, ACE, at Los Angeles institution Vidiots. In San Francisco, a group of aging Chinese women (Kiều Chinh, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, Lisa Lu) meet regularly to trade familial stories while playing Mahjong. In a series of sixteen vignettes that span generations and continents, this adaptation of Amy Tan’s bestselling novel explores cultural conflict and the often-turbulent relationships between four first-generation Chinese-American women (Ming-Na Wen, Tamlyn Tomita, Lauren Tom, Rosalind Chao) and their mothers. Tickets are $12 (Vidiots Members Receive Discount) Proceeds benefit the Vidiots Foundation