Cinema Studies Presents: Screening of "The Rider" and Q&A with Director Chloé Zhao

Location: 
EMU 214 Redwood Auditorium
Date: 
May 9, 2018, 7:00 pm to May 10, 2018, 6:45 pm

Screening of "The Rider" and Q&A with Director Chloé Zhao

 

The Rider

Screening and Q&A with Director Chloé Zhao

UO students, faculty, staff, and the community are invited to a free advance screening of The Rider (2017) followed by a Q&A with Director Chloé Zhao

Wednesday, May 9, 2018
7:00 p.m.
EMU 214 Redwood Auditorium
Free

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.  
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

2017 – 104 Minutes – Rated R

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Free Cinema Studies drawstring bag to the first 30 attendees!

 

Link to trailer of "The Rider"

The Rider

2017 – 104 Minutes – Rated R

After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady (Brady Jandreau), once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

Official Selection

  • Sundance Film Festival 2018
  • Cannes International Film Festival 2017
  • Directors' Forthnight, Best Picture
  • Telluride Film Festival 2017
  • Toronto International Film Festival 2017
  • New York FIlm Festival 2017

Awards

  • Winner Golden Athena, Best Picture, 2017 Athens International Film Festival
  • Winner, C.I.C.A.E. Award, 2017 Cannes Film Festival
  • Nominee, Heterodox Award, 2018 Cinema Eye Honors Awards
  • Winner, Grand Special Prize, 2017 Deauville Film Festival
  • Nominee, Independent Spirit Award, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Feature, 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards
  • Winner, Art Cinema Award, Best Feature, 2017 Hamburg Film Festival
  • Nominee, Sichtwechsel Film Award, 2017 Hamburg Film Festival
  • Nominee, ICP Award, Best 2018 Movies Already Seen, 2017 Indiewire Critics' Poll
  • Winner, ICS Award, Best Picture Not Released in 2017, 2018 International Cinephile Society Awards
  • Winner, Directors to Watch, 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival
  • Winner, Golden Puffin, Best Film, 2017 Reykjavik International Film Festival
  • Nominee, Bronze Horse, Best Film, 2017 Stockholm Film Festival
  • Nominee SXSW Gamechanger Award, 2018 SXSW Film Festival
  • Winner, Pilar Miró Award, Best New Director, 2017 Valladolid International Film Festival
  • Winner, Silver Spike, Best Film and Best Actor, 2017 Valladolid International Film Festival
  • Nominee, Golden Spike, Best Film, 2017 Valladolid International Film Festival

Photo of Chloe Zhao directing "The Rider"

About Chloé Zhao

One of Variety's 10 Directors to Watch for 2018!
Winner, Bonnie Award – 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards.  Read more about the award in Variety.

Chloé Zhao is a writer, director, and producer. Her feature debut, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, screened at the Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight, and was nominated for three 2016 Independent Spirit Awards. Her most recent film, The Rider (2017), won the top prize at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes and is nominated for multiple Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature and Best Director. The Rider also received the Werner Herzog Foundation Award for its courage and vision. Zhao studied Political Science at Mount Holyoke College and Film Production at NYU. She was born in Beijing and currently resides in the United States.

Funded by the generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment

Thank you to our cosponsors: 
Department of Art, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of English, Department of Ethnic Studies, 
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Native American Studies, School of Journalism and Communication / Media Studies

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