The Asian American International Film Festival will screen Heaven Rain Flows Sweetly, a film I co-produced and story consulted with director Shasha Li and producer Xin Li, on August 8 in New York City; Mimesis Festival will screen it on August 17 in Boulder, Colorado, and make it available to stream online from August 14-25.
Shasha grew up partly in Kunming, China, where my mother was born. We met through a mutual friend, and it was delightful to collaborate on her first professional film. I am moved by how the film's poetic imagery and narration seek to understand the ecospiritist worldview of Shasha's Nakhi relatives.
The film premiered at DocNYC in November and has also screened at VC Filmfest; it will show at the Native Spirit Film Festival in London October 11-19.