Tongzhi in Love

Tongzhi in Love

Infobox Film
name = Tongzhi in Love 《彼岸浮生》


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director = Ruby Yang
producer = Thomas Lennon
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narrator =
starring =
music = Bill Frisell
Brian Keane
cinematography = Yang Yishu
editing = Gary Wong, Ruby Yang
distributor =
released = 18 June 2008 (Washington DC)
28 June 2008
(San Francisco)
runtime = 30 minutes
country = USA
China
language = English
Mandarin
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website = http://www.tongzhiinlove.com/
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imdb_id = 1242856

" Tongzhi in Love" 《彼岸浮生》 (2008) is a 30-minute documentary film directed by Ruby Yang which portrays the life of gay men in China. The film was produced by Thomas Lennon and features music by Bill Frisell and Brian Keane. The film's world premiere will be at the Silverdocs Film Festival in Washington, D.C. on 18 June 2008 and the West Coast premiere will be at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco on 28 June 2008. (Film was previously known as "A Double Life" and appears under that title in the Frameline catalog.) "Tongzhi" means "comrade" and has become a slang term for "gay" in several Asian countries.

ee Also

*Homosexuality in China

External Links

* [http://www.tongzhiinlove.com/ Official Site]
*imdb title|id=1242856|title=Tongzhi in Love
* [http://silverdocs.com/festival/films/2008/tongzhi-love/ Film description at Silverdocs 2008]
* [http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=1559&fid=42 Film description at Frameline 32]


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