CHILDREN OF INVENTION

CHILDREN OF INVENTION
dir. Tze Chun
2009, 35mm, 86 min, color

March 12th - 18th
Fri. 12th: 4:30, 6:15, 8:00, 9:45
Sat. 13th: 4:30*, 6:15*, 8:00*
Sun. 14th: 4:30, 8:00
Mon. 15th: 6:15, 8:00
Tues. 16th: 4:30, 6:15, 9:45
Wed. 17th: 4:30, 6:15*, 8:00*, 9:45
Thurs. 18th: 4:30, 6:15*, 8:00*, 9:45

*Q&A with the director Tze Chun and producers!

"Restraint proves a virtue of - and a shrewd if necessary choice for - Children of Invention, a modestly scaled, quietly effective independent movie....A fine feature debut...a topical look at what it means to be working and poor in America while hanging onto a badly frayed thread. Yet while the politics are there, you might be too busy choking back tears to notice." - Manohla Dargis, New York Times

"Wonderful...absorbing and deftly played. Chen and Chiu's genuine, rarely cloying performances along with Cheung's urgent sincerity add immeasurably to this timely film's many modest pleasures." - Los Angeles Times


One of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, writer-director Tze Chun makes his feature film debut with one of the most-awarded and best-reviewed films of the year. CHILDREN OF INVENTION is by turns humorous and heartbreaking, an "edge-of-your-seat family drama" (Spout) that’s both “powerfully moving and rigorously intelligent."(Boston Phoenix).

Referencing both the mortgage meltdown and suburban Ponzi schemes, “the film finds delicate moments of beauty and grace as its child heroes are forced to make their way” (Filmmaker Magazine). Featuring “gifted child actors -- off-the-charts cute, refreshingly free of Hollywood precociousness” (LA Weekly), CHILDREN OF INVENTION is "as close to cinematic purity as one is likely to see this year" (Film Society of Lincoln Center), a timely drama about the influence of the adult world on children and resilience in hard times.





WINNER!
Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Feature | Newport International Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Feature | Independent Film Festival Boston
Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Feature | L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize, Best Film | San Diego Asian Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature | San Diego Asian Film Festival
Special Jury Prize, Best Narrative Feature | Sarasota Film Festival
Special Jury Award | San Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Special Jury Prize, Emotional Storytelling | Indie Memphis
George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award | DC APA Film Festival
Puma Emerging Filmmaker Award | Hawaii Int'l Film Festival
Visionary Award | Austin Asian American Film Festival