Admission: FREE for public, 10:20-5:00PM August 6, 7, 2011

Full-length family films from China, with English subtitles. Many of the filmmakers in attendance for Q&A.

Location: AMN Healthcare Theatre, Del Mar Heights; Address: 12400 High Bluff Drive; San Diego, CA 92130

To get to AMN Healthcare Theater, take the Del Mar Heights Road exit off Interstate 5, travel east to High Bluff Drive and make a right on High Bluff Drive.

For more festival information, send e-mail to infor@maeya.org or call (310) 266-8559 or Text (310)940-2598

 Saturday, August 6, 2011

10:20AM: "My Hot Mother"; 90 min. Director: Feng Xiao
Q&A: Liu, Guoqiang; Zheng, Chuangtian; Zheng, Chuangyi
Boy Xiaomeng is a lovely boy,  For help his mom get happier life, he had worked all interesting ways...

11:50 AM; "Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest," (6 min. Animation Short). Animator: Perry Chen, Producer: Zhu Shen, Director: Kevin Sean Michaels, Storyboard: Bill Plympton
Q&A: Perry Chen, Zhu Shen
Description: This moving and acclaimed animation short by 11-yr-old animator & award-winning film critic Perry Chen, under the guidance of Oscar-nominee, animation legend Bill Plympton, depicts the miraculous escape of Jewish girl Ingrid Pitt at age 8 from a Nazi concentration camp, with broad contemporary implications.

12:00PM: "Seven Arhat" (88 min); Director: Huayang Fu
Q&A:
The master leaves 7 little monks to stay in the temple; they use their tricks and Kungfu to kick out the grave robbers. Chinese Kungfu version of "Home Alone".

1:30PM: "Sunshine In Your Heart" ( 85 min); Director: Director: Lei Zhao
Q&A: Zhao, Lei; Huo, Nifang
Junior school student Tiantian is a happy and adorable girl in the eyes of everyone, but the teacher Lu Tong senses some psychological problem of her. The film is the story about how a teacher and the student working together to get over " Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" .

3:00PM: "The Happiness Swan" (82min.) Director: Xinjun Han; Qin Yan
Q&A: Geng, Yifei; Dong, Lin; Shi, Dong; Kong, Xiaohong; Zhang,Wenshu; Luo, Jin; Gong, Shoupeng; Li, Xingzhi
The boy painter named Bo Wen found an injured white Swan, he bring it home to take care. The illegal animal traders steal the swan, with the help of police; Bo Wen saved the swan again. After all those, he does not willing to release the swan to the nature after its fully recovered....

4:30PM: "Boy on horseback" (92 min) Director: Baosheng Li
Q&A: Li, Baosheng; Li, Yan; Shen, Xiaoyi; Jin, Guodong
A story about the relationships between Mongolian boy Bilige with the horse and the eagle. For saving the eagle from be sold as meat to the restaurant, Bilige learn how to train the eagle from a falconer (grandfather) and help free the trapped eagle.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

10:30AM: "Arranged Meals For Teachers" (83min); Director: Weimin Qi
Q&A: Chen yikeha; Ren, Xiaohong;Shen, Hong
The Tiaoshi village has a long tradition by making meals to the village school teacher by turns of each family. All families are provided their best food for the teacher and this is their ways to show the respect. However, after adds one new teacher, the education bureau also send a cook for the school, then it case a big impact for the villagers. They create all funning ways to try to let the cook to leave....

12:00 PM: "The Story of A Piano" (88min.) Director: Wei Zhou
Q&A: Qiu, Shi
When Divorced piano master feel so lost after his piano school got burning down, his daughter came to live with him after many years apart. For repairing the damage caused by the fire, father and daughter re-build their love and care.

1:30PM: "Dance by the mind" (90min); Director: Guoqing Zhang
Q&A: Xu, Jianying; Wang, Jing; Lin, Xiaobo; Lin, Yijia
The film is about the life of the adopted orphans cased by the Wenchuan earthquake. How those orphans adjust their life and growing up with the greater loves of their new parents, teachers and classmates.

3:00PM: " Love on the shore" (87min); director: Weimin Qi
Q&A: Shen,Hong
A rich city girl meets a country school teacher at the beautiful grass land. She witnesses the teacher work hard to help 3 school children able to continue study in school.

4:30PM, "Horizon" ( 93min.) Director: Numing Huari
Q&A: Numing Huari
For over 20 year's absence, the father comes to visit his daughter who he abandoned when she was 6 years old. The once orphaned daughter did not accept him, she made her way out from this difficulty time.