Film Screening: THREE SEASONS (1999, 109 min.)

Film Screening: Three Seasons (1999, 109 min.)
Friday, February 14, 6:00pm
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor

This event will screen the 4K Restoration of Vietnamese-American filmmaker Tony Bui’s 1999 film Three Seasons. This remastered version recently premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, reinvigorating the big screen with “an alternative to its many pixelated YouTube links or glitchy pirate DVDs”. The Q&A would outline the filmmaker’s involvement with the restoration process.

Tony Bui is a Sundance award-winning writer, director, and producer. He is currently Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and teaches in Columbia’s School of the Arts graduate film program. His films include Yellow Lotus, Three Seasons, Green Dragon, and The Throwaways. His short film, Yellow Lotus, was the first Vietnamese language film to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival and received over 15 national and international festival awards.

Q&A moderated by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen. Professor Nguyen is the Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and holds the Dorothy Borg Chair in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University. She specializes in the Vietnam War, U.S.-Southeast Asian relations, and the global Cold War. Professor Nguyen is currently working on a comprehensive history of the 1968 Tet Offensive for Random House. She is the general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, 3 vols., as well as co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations.

This is an in-person event, open to the public. Prior registration is required at least 24 hours before the start of the event. Non-NYU attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID.