Aug. 14Club Obi Wan
8月14日
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NBIMF
Apt. 1607 Building 10
Tai Yue Yuan - Zhi Chun Lu
HaiDian Qu
Beijing, China
100088
Phone: +86 13146388904
地址:中国北京市海淀区知春路太月园10号1607室
邮编:100088
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Our next screening event is "Beneath The Surface" at Club Obi Wan. With the Olympics Water Polo supporters! 我们的下一个电影是“表层之下”,将在Obi wan俱乐部放映。奥林匹克水球队将会参加!
免费的啤酒!!!
Shoe raffle by CROCS. Free beer provided by The NEB

"Beneath the Surface" provides a rare look at an exceptional, yet under-exposed sport through the eyes of one of its greatest practitioners, 3 time Olympian Wolf Wigo – the captain of the US Olympic Water Polo Team in 2004. Here in Beijing 2008 Wolf is the on-air NBC commentator / analyst for the men's and women's water polo games.
“表层之下”观察了体育运动中特殊的、未被暴光的一面。它以最伟大的运动员之一,沃尔夫.威格的视角,提供了一个罕见的视野。沃尔夫.威格曾三次参加奥运会,并且是2004年美国奥林匹克水球队的队长。这次2008年北京奥运会上,沃尔夫.威是NBC公司的广播评论员和分析员,他将评析男子和女子的水球比赛。
Viewers will be dazzled by the fittest of all athletes and by the beauty of the aggressive, skillful and graceful actions of the best players as shown in Olympic footage. The documentary features interviews with the many of the world's greatest coaches and players and includes exciting action in the pool both above and below the water. It also illustrates in depth the grueling mental and physical stamina necessary to prevail while swimming up to 2 miles per game amidst fierce fighting and wrestling for position in water well over their heads.
NYC boy, Wolf Wigo, has a dream to be on the US Olympic water polo team, overcomes geographical and physical obstacles until through training and determination achieves his goal 10 years later. The film shows exciting action above and below the water illustrating just how tough this sport is, and features many players and coaches from the last few Olympic Games as well as from the current 2008 Olympic team here in Beijing. Told from the point of view of Wolf's mom the story has behinds-the-scenes flavor and some "home footage". Authentic and real, the film shows both the challenges and the rewards of playing water polo in the US. Here they play for the true love of the game which is shown to be very different from playing abroad where the players are rich, famous stars.
来自纽约的男孩Wolf Wigo非常想加入美国奥林匹克水球队,他能克服来自外界和自身的障碍吗?只有训练和决心能帮他实现一生的梦想。观众们将会看到这项激动人心并且严格的运动。他们将会看到世界顶级运动员和水上,水下动作。运动员在一场比赛中至少要能游3英里,并在和对手敌对式摔跤对抗时准确地射门---所有的这一切都是没法站立完成的,因为他们在比赛中不允许碰到池底或池的边缘。
The film was produced with the cooperation of the United States Olympic Committee.
Visit www.waterpolofilm.com for more information about the film and a 3 minute trailer.
Keep a watch on this space for further documentation and images from previous events.
Our screening events at Greening the Beige for July 2008 are complete! Can't wait to show more movies with them next year!
Featured works at those Greening the Beige screening events include:
The Long Wooden Tobogganist
Trip To The Planetarium
Road Rage
Cycle of Change
Who's Got The Power?
Charcoal Traffic
More Shoes
The Bike Lane
A Delicate Balance
New Urban Cowboy
Gone
Tracker
Jur
Fly By Red Shoes
Simulacra
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We're done for June! We opened on May 29th, and finished June 8th with 9 screening events happening in between. Each event was well attended, and almost every one featured a visiting moviemaker's participation for Q&A.






Big thanks goes out to:
Mom, Dad, Mao, Andrew Ryan, and Jesus.
Venue Liaisons Duan Jia, Sun Xin, and Wang ShuiBo.
Managers and Volunteers Jeff Dickens, Yang "Lodgerly" XiaoBin, Imelda Nurwisah, Camille Holden, Rebecca Hu, James Foster, Laura Fitch, Nancy Hou, Lee Lily, Lulu Shen, and all the others who showed up to translate, promote, and keep it rolling.
Translations manager Nick Trites.
Participating moviemakers and their works- Rick Stevenson with "Expiration Date", Andrew Wall with "The Long Wooden Tobogganist", Jim Lindsay with "Charcoal Traffic", Enno Ladwig with "Cycle of Change", Pedro Valdez with "Bulong", Li Qiao and Monty with "Beijing Taxi", and Arnaud Collery, with beer.
Also thanks to Jimy Graham and Christine Zhou, for going with the flow.
(anyone we forgot? remind us and we'll give a shout out here on the next update!)