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From: RSVP To: "JEEVACATION@GMAILCOM" <JEEVACATION@GMAILCOM> Subject: Al WEIWEI:NEVER SORRY INVITE Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:46:14 +0000 Sundance Selects IFC Films and Susan Sarandon invite you to join filmmaker Alison Klayman at the New York premiere of SUNDANCE SELECTS' AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY A film by Alison Klayman ***Winner, Special Jury Prize - 2012 Sundance Film Festival*** " 8 Official Selection -2012 Berlin International Film Festival*** ***Opening Night Human Rights Watch Film*" Tuesday, July 24th 2012 7:00pm-Screening Chelsea Clearview Cinema 260 West 23rd Street (between 7th & 8th Avenues) 9:00pm - Party The Double Seven 63 Gansevoort Street (between 9th Avenue & Washington Street) or Named by ArtReview as the most powerful artist in the world, Ai Weiwei is China's most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. In April 2011, when Ai disappeared into police custody for three months, he quickly became China's most famous missing person, having first risen to international prominence in 2008 after helping design Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium and then publicly denouncing the Games as party propaganda. Since then, Ai Weiwei's critiques of China's repressive regime have ranged from playful photographs of his raised middle finger in front of Tiananmen Square to searing memorials of the more than 5,000 schoolchildren who died in shoddy government construction in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Against a backdrop of strict censorship, Ai has become a kind of Internet champion. His frequent witty use of his blog and twitter, he is able EFTA00647172 to organize, inform, and inspire his followers, becoming an underground hero to millions of Chinese citizens. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to the charismatic artist, as well as his family and others close to him, while working as a journalist in Beijing. In the years she filmed, government authorities shut down Ai's blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him in secret detention; while Time magazine named him a runner-up for 2011's Person of the Year. This compelling documentary is the inside story of a passionate dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. Runtime is 91 minutes Opening July 27, 2012 Presented by United Media Expression EFTA00647173