THURSDAY, APRIL 11
Guest Lectures
Academic Building 3101, Duke Kunshan University
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
“Gender and Chinese Eco-Cinema” by Professor Shu-chin Tsui. Asian and Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College
“Smog Art” by Professor Thomas Johnson. Political Science, University of Sheffield
THURSDAY, APRIL 11
Opening Gala
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
昆山杜克大学
中国江苏省昆山市杜克大道8号 邮编：215316
No. 8 Duke Avenue, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China 215316
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Red carpet event for filmmakers, artists, DKU students, faculty, and staff
Photo session: dress to impress!
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
“The Pledge” by DKU Chancellor Youmei Feng
Opening words by Associate Director, Environmental Research Center, Professor Kathinka Furst; Co-Director Humanities Research Center, Professor James Miller, & DKU Students Leadership Program.
Films:
“Junk” (2015) Director: Walter Tournier. Uruguay. 5 minutes
“Homeland: Stories from Sanjiangyuan” (2018) Director: Liu Zhuang. China. 7 minutes
“Beryl’s One Week” (2018) Director: Beryl Wang. DKU. 4 minutes
Opening remarks by Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology, Doctor Stuart L. Pimm and Steve Blake, China Chief Representative WILDAID
“Saving the Porpoise (Vaquita)” (2018) Director: Andrew Wegst. Mexico/China. 50 minutes
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
EXECUTIVE DINING HALL. Duke Kunshan University
Reception for all DKU community and special guests
FRIDAY, APRIL 12 – SUNDAY, APRIL 14
Open events for the public. Please register by April 11
FRIDAY, APRIL 12
Duke Kunshan Univeristy. 昆山杜克大学
中国江苏省昆山市杜克大道8号 邮编：215316
No. 8 Duke Avenue, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China 215316
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
TED-style talk by Professor Binbin Li. International Master of Environmental Policy, Duke Kunshan University: Challenges for Wild Life Conservation in China
*“The Glories of the Minya Konga” (2018) Director: Dong Lei. China. 22 minutes
“Ganges: A Journey Through the Senses of Water” (2018) Director: Robert Restrepo. India/Colombia. 75 minutes
BALLROOM A. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
“Wasteland” (2010) Directors: Lucy Walker, Joao Jardim. Brazil. 138 minutes
BALLROOM B. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
“Nukak: Still Waiting” (2018) Director: Jose Luis Cote. Colombia. 8 minutes
“Born in China” (2017) Director: Lu Chuan. China. 79 minutes
“Decommissioned” (2018) Directors: Huijing Huang, Kameron Eric Shroeder, Xiaoling Xie. China. 11 minutes
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
12:00 pm – 12:15pm
“A Message to the Sea” (2012) Director: Basir Mahmood. Pakistan. 6 minutes
*“Sharks: Feared and Food” (2018) Director: Kameron Schroeder. DKU. 5 minutes
BALLROOM A. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm
“Pangolin” (2017) Directors: Katy Shuler, Nick Rogacki. United States. 15 minutes
English
BALLROOM B. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm
“Pangolin” (2017) Directors: Katy Shuler, Nick Rogacki. United States. 15 minutes
Mandarin
LUNCH BREAK | DKU CANTEEN, ACADEMIC BUILDING
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
TED-style talk by Jet Chang, TOMRA Asia, spoke person & Jiang Nanqing, China Plastics Reuse and Recycle Association
“Yangtze Drift” (2015) Director: John Rash. China/USA. 27 minutes
“A Plastic Ocean” (2017) Director: Craig Leeson. The Netherlands. 92 minutes
BALLROOM A. Academic Building Duke Kunshan University
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
“Isle of Flowers” (“Ilha Das Flores”) (1989) Director: Jorge Furtado. Brazil. 13 minutes
“Oceans: The Mystery of the Missing Plastic” (2016) Director: Vincent Perazio. France. 54 minutes
“Forest Law” (2014-18) Director: Ursula Biemann. Switzerland/Ecuador. 32 minutes
BALLROOM B. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Talk by Denggao Zhang. Green Anhui Org and Yiren Wang, IMEP.
“Koka, the Butcher” (2018) Director: Bence Mate. Egypt. 37 minutes
“Deep Weather” (2013) Director: Ursula Biemann. Switzerland. 9 minutes
“Warriors of Qiugang” (2011) Director: Ruby Yang. China. 39 minutes
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
TED-style talk by Francis Sollano on “trashion” & Shu-chin Tsui, Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College, California
“Plastic China” (2016) Director: Wang Jiuliang. China. 82 minutes
“The Millers” (2018) Director: Erin Espelie. United States. 5 minutes
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
5:00 – 6:15 pm
TED-style talk by Yu Zhihua, Director of the Kunshan Environmental Protection and Waste Management Bureau
&
Itee Soni and Heather Kaye, founders of Finch Design. Shanghai. Film introduced by Director Haiyan Su.
*“Wandering Plastic Bottles” / “Let Plastic Bottles No Longer Wander” (2018) Director: Haiyan Su. China. 5 minutes & 6 minutes
“Urban Waste Dealing” (2018) *Director: Beijing Five Star Legend Cultural Media. 16 minutes
WATER PAVILLION AND WATER PONDS. Duke Kunshan University
7:00 – 8:00 pm
With Kong Ning (performance), Francis Sollano and DKU Undergraduate Fashion Designers, Models & the Dance Urban Troop. Music by Teqiao Li
“Monsoon III” (2016) Director: Mike Olbinski. United States. 7 minutes 40
“Water Lily: Birth of the Lotus” (2015) Director: Justine Cunha, Alexandra Batina, Clementine Delcourt, Margaux Lahuppe, Pascal Miller. France. 8 minutes
AUDITORIUM. AB Duke Kunshan University
8:00 – 9:30 pm
Introduction by Professor Shu-chin Tsui, Bowdoin College & Professor Zhuoyi Wang, Hamilton College
“Behemoth – A Mediation Between China’s Coal and Iron Industry” (2015) Director: Zhao Liang. China. 88 minutes
SATURDAY, APRIL 13
Duke Kunshan Univeristy. 昆山杜克大学
中国江苏省昆山市杜克大道8号 邮编: 215316 | No. 8 Duke Avenue, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China 215316
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
“Water” (2018) Director: Xiaolin Xie. DKU. 4 minutes
“Albatross” (2017) Director: Chris Jordan. United States. 97 minutes
“Bird Window Collisions at Duke Kunshan University” (2018) Director: Julie Mao. 5 minutes
BALLROOM A. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
“Light” (2018) Director: Hanwei Xu. DKU. 2 minutes
“Queen Without Land” (2018) Director: Asgeir Helgestad. Norway. 52 minutes
“Grazing the Amazon” (2018) Director: Marco Isensee e Sa. Brazil. 50 minutes
BALLROOM B. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Talk by Wu Wenguang, Memory Project
“Dumb Men” (2018) Director: Hu Tao. China. 86 minutes
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm
“Round in Circles” (2015) Director: Cunha Justine. France. 1 minute
“Monsoon (III)” (2016) Director: Mike Olbinski. United States. 8 minutes
BALLROOM A. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
12:00 pm– 12:15 pm
“Primitives” (“Nativos”) (2017) Director: Edwin Manuel Noh Cen & Mauricion Andrada. Mexico. 8 minutes
BALLROOM B. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm
“Konagxeka: The story of the Maxakali’s Flood” (2016) Director: Isael Maxakali e Charles Bicalho. Brazil. 13 minutes
LUNCH BREAK | DKU CANTEEN, ACADEMIC BUILDING
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
TED-style Talk by Mao Da, Zero Waste Alliance. Living Zero Waste
“Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic” (2010) Director: Suzan Beraza. United States. 79 minutes
“Tadpole Tale: A Fantasy” (2017) Director: Laurids Andersen Sonne. United States. 14 minutes
BALLROOM A. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
“Kuwoi Wujan” (2018) Director: Jose Luis Cote. Colombia. 5 minutes
*“Self Portrait: Sphinx in 47 KM” (2017) Director: Zhang Mengqi. China. 93 minutes
BALLROOM B. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Re-runs
“Junk” (2015) Director: Walter Tournier. Uruguay. 5 minutes
“Homeland: Stories from Sanjiangyuan” (2018) Director: Liu Zhuang. China. 7 minutes
“Beryl’s One Week” (2018) Director: Beryl Wang. DKU. Run time: 4 minutes
“Saving the Porpoise (Vaquita)” (2018) Director: Andrew Wegst. Mexico/China. 50 minutes
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
TED-style Talk by Professor Kathinka Furst, International Master of Environmental Policy & Thomas Johnson, University of Sheffield
*“Balloon Man Carbon Footprint” (2018) Directors: Catherine Brenner, Uros Osmokrovic, Xuchen Gong, Xinyue Lu, Weili Wu. DKU. 8 minutes
“Beijing Besieged by Waste” (2010) Director: Wang Jiuliang. China. 72 minutes
BALLROOM A. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Re-runs
“Pangolin” (2017) Directors: Katy Shuler, Nick Rogacki. United States. 15 minutes. English
“A Message to the Sea” (2012) Director: Basir Mahmood. Pakistan. 6 minutes
“Wandering Plastic Bottles” / “Let Plastic Bottles No Longer Wander” (2018). Haiyan Su. China. 5 minutes / 6 minutes
BALLROOM B. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
“Green Models: Building DKU Environmentally” (2018) Director: Cui (Janet) Liu, Julie Mao, Kelley Reardon. DKU, China. 10 minutes
“Manufactured Landscapes” (2007) Director: Jennifer Baichwal. China/Canada. 90 minutes
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
*“Confession of Anthropocene-aholic” (2018) Director: Du Yinan. DKU, China. 4 minutes
*“The Long Goodbye” (2018) Director: Zheng Xingyao. China. 10 minutes
“Anote’s Ark” (2018) Director: Matthieu Rytz. Canada. 77 minutes
BALLROOM A. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
“Human Wildlife Conflict: India and China” (2018) Director: Kelley Reardon. DKU, China, 5 minutes
Re-runs
*“The Glories of the Minya Konga” (2018) Director: Dong Lei. China. 22 minutes
“Round in Circles” (2015) Director: Cunha Justine. France. 1 minute
“Primitives” (“Nativos”) (2017) Director: Edwin Manuel Noh Cen & Mauricion Andrada. Mexico. 8 minutes
“Konagxeka: The story of the Maxakali’s Flood” (2016) Director: Isael Maxakali e Charles Bicalho. Brazil. 13 minutes
BALLROOM B. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Special Presentation: DKU Student short films on the environment (not in competition)
“Water Pollution” (2018) Directors: Kanfu Chen, Melissa Schirmer, Yuting Sun, Ruiwen Wu.
6 minutes
“Campus Recycling Policies” (2018) Directors: Vanessa Hu, Cecilia Yao, Aaron Tang. 7 minutes
“An Un-Helpful Guide to Living a Green Life at DKU” (2018) Directors: Shelley Jiang, Yetta He, Victor Lee, Ryan He. 8 minutes
“Surrounding the Lake” (2018) Director: Cui Liu. 4 minutes
“A Reflection on City Zoo” (2018) Director: Wen Zhang. 7 minutes
“A Brief Research on Water Pollution” (2018) Directors: Haitong Lin, Wenjie Zhou, Yuqing Liu, Yutong Lu, Ziting Huang. 8 minutes
“In Search for Water” (2018) Director: Tianqui Wu. 8 minutes
“A Christmas Gift” (2018) Director: Tang Lan. 3 minutes
AUDITORIUM. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
“A Dream of Myanmar” (2018) Director: Marta Trela. Germany. 4 minutes
*“Investigating My Father” (2016) Director: Wu Wenguang. China. 80 minutes
SUNDAY, APRIL 14
9:00 – 12:00pm
DKU GREEN RUN event will be held take place at the perimeter of the DKU (see map). The perimeter of the campus is approximately 1.5 km or 1 mile, and the run will involve 3 laps totaling in 4.5 km or 3 miles. Runners can sign for 1.5 or 4.5 km run.
JINXI ANCIENT WATER TOWN. Kunshan, Jiangsu | 苏州市昆山市 | Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
By registration only to DKU students, faculty and staff (limited space available)
2:00 pm
Buses for DKU Students and Staff depart from DKU to Jinxi Ancient Water Town. Academic Building, Duke Kunshan University
3:00 pm
JINXI ANCIENT WATER TOWN AWARD CEREMONY
Points Center for Contemporary Art, Jinxi Ancient Water Town.
FASHION GALA. With Kong NING, Francis SOLLANO and DKU Undergraduate Designers, models.
SCREENING OF FINALISTS AND AWARD WINNERS
Points Center for Contemporary Art, Jinxi Ancient Water Town
Followed by a reception (invitation only)
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Scavenger Hunt. Several locations across Jinxi Ancient Water Town (follow the clues).
5:30 pm
Buses depart from Jinxi Ancient Water Town to Duke Kunshan University
Jinxi Parking lot
Note: * FILMMAKER in attendance / introduced by filmmaker
WATER TOWNS EFAF EXHIBITIONS
April 10 – May 10, 2019
Location: Duke Kunshan University Academinc Building (various locations).
No. 8 Duke Avenue, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China 215316
Participating artist: Zhou Ruizhuang, China. Wang Hongcai, China. Libia Posada, Colombia. Xingyao Zheng, China. Kong Ning, China. Jiuliang Wang, China. Francis Sollano, Philippines. Rafael Osuba, USA-Puerto Rico
Additional photography by: Coraline Goron, France and Virginie Arantes, Belgium
Curated by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo and Coraline Goron
Location: Duke Kunshan University Academinc Building (third floor).
Special Exhibit:
Propitious Wind and Rain. Photographs from Kunshan by Tom Rankin
Location: Duke Kunshan University Academinc Building (second floor).
Special Exhibit:
Marine Pollution for you to see! By Zero Waste Alliance
Location: Duke Kunshan University Conference Center. First Floor Hall (South East entrance)
See you all at WATER TOWNS.
Media inquires please contact: Zhou Su. Tel: (+86) 0512-3665 7214. Email: zhou.su@dukekunshan.edu.cn
