Reel Savannah
and The Jepson Center for the Arts
Present
Up the Yangzte (Canada, 2007)
The Jepson Center Auditorium
August 7, 6:15 PM
$6, cash only (box office opens at 5:45 PM)


To coincide with the start of the Beijing Olympics the day after the showing, Reel Savannah Film Group invites you to a premiere of this summer's most talked-about documentary, Up the Yangtze.

A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze - navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge - a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam - contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle - provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze , a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China. Winner of San Francisco, Vancouver, and several other documentary festivals. In English and Mandarin, with English subtitles. 93 minutes.