Please join this special RASBJ film club screening of ‘Factory Boss” and QA with its director Zhang Wei, himself a factory boss-turned-filmmaker.

Released in 2014, “Factory Boss” focuses on dilemmas bedeviling the Shenzhen toy factory boss who finds himself inexorably squeezed between rising workers’ demands and the rapacious tactics of his profit-obsessed Western customers. A powerful expose of the contradictions triggered by China’s economic rise, “Factory Boss” was critically acclaimed at the 2014 Montreal World Film Festival where Yao Anlin won the best actor prize for his moving portrayal of the factory head. After the film you’ll have a chance to talk with director Zhang, who is passionate about his second career as a filmmaker (and his hobby of collecting fine whiskies, examples of which he will generously share with the audience).

To RSVP, please email events@rasbj.org

Event information courtesy of Legation Quarter.