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SUMMARY:CHILDREN OF INVENTION
DESCRIPTION:CHILDREN OF INVENTION\ndir. Tze Chun\n2009, 35mm, 86 min, 
 color\n\nMarch 12th - 18th\nFri. 12th: 4:30, 6:15, 8:00, 9:45\nSat. 13
 th: 4:30*, 6:15*, 8:00*\nSun. 14th: 4:30, 8:00\nMon. 15th: 6:15, 8:00\
 nTues. 16th: 4:30, 6:15, 9:45\nWed. 17th: 4:30, 6:15*, 8:00*, 9:45\nTh
 urs. 18th: 4:30, 6:15*, 8:00*, 9:45\n\n*Q&A with the director Tze Chun
  and producers!\n\n\n\"Restraint proves a virtue of - and a shrewd if 
 necessary choice for - Children of Invention, a modestly scaled, quiet
 ly effective independent movie....A fine feature debut...a topical loo
 k at what it means to be working and poor in America while hanging ont
 o a badly frayed thread. Yet while the politics are there, you might b
 e too busy choking back tears to notice.\" - Manohla Dargis, New York 
 Times \"Wonderful...absorbing and deftly played. Chen and Chiu's genui
 ne, rarely cloying performances along with Cheung's urgent sincerity a
 dd immeasurably to this timely film's many modest pleasures.\" - Los A
 ngeles Times\n\n\n\nOne of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Inde
 pendent Film, writer-director Tze Chun makes his feature film debut wi
 th one of the most-awarded and best-reviewed films of the year. CHILDR
 EN OF INVENTION is by turns humorous and heartbreaking, an \"edge-of-y
 our-seat family drama\" (Spout) that’s both “powerfully moving and
  rigorously intelligent.\"(Boston Phoenix).\n\nReferencing both the mo
 rtgage meltdown and suburban Ponzi schemes, “the film finds delicate
  moments of beauty and grace as its child heroes are forced to make th
 eir way” (Filmmaker Magazine). Featuring “gifted child actors -- o
 ff-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 re
 silience in hard times.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWINNER!\nGrand Jury Prize, Best N
 arrative Feature | Newport International Film Festival\nGrand Jury Pri
 ze, Best Narrative Feature | Independent Film Festival Boston\nGrand J
 ury Prize, Best Narrative Feature | L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival\n
 Grand Jury Prize, Best Film | San Diego Asian Film Festival\nBest Narr
 ative Feature | San Diego Asian Film Festival\nSpecial Jury Prize, Bes
 t Narrative Feature | Sarasota Film Festival\nSpecial Jury Award | San
  Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival\nSpecial Jury Prize, Emo
 tional Storytelling | Indie Memphis\nGeorge C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker 
 Award | DC APA Film Festival\nPuma Emerging Filmmaker Award | Hawaii I
 nt'l Film Festival\nVisionary Award | Austin Asian American Film Festi
 val\n\nFor more information visit http://www.downtownindependent.com/e
 vents/children-of-invention
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CATEGORIES:film, sundance, children
LOCATION:Downtown Independent
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