Nathan Truesdell was selected for the inaugural DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list in 2019. Nathan Truesdell, Producer/Cinematographer She produced Jessica Kingdon’s award-winning short documentary Commodity City, and splits her time between China and the US. Kira has produced over 50 short documentaries about China’s underground music scene for the Beijing-based record label Modern Sky, and is producing a documentary series for the British Council on the creative scenes in China’s 2nd and 3rd tier cities. Her first feature film as a producer was on her older sister Ani Simon-Kennedy’s 2013 debut Days of Gray, live-scored by the Icelandic orchestral band Hjaltalín, which played festivals worldwide. She has been a fellow at NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art, design and technology, and the IFP Made in NY Media Center, creating Rivet, a platform to connect creative people with opportunities worldwide. Kira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder/director of China Residencies, a multifaceted arts nonprofit that has supported over 70 different international creative exchanges to China since 2013. She is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective. Jessica’s producer credits include Tania Cypriano’s Born To Be (NYFF 2019), Ian Bell’s 808: How We Respond (Sheffield 2019), Nathan Truesdell’s The Water Slide (True/False 2018), and Johnny Ma’s Old Stone (Berlinale 2016). She co-directed the short It's Coming! (2020), which was supported by Rooftop Films, and is currently playing festivals, and Routine Island (2019), which is included in The Eyeslicer Season 2. It was shortlisted for a Cinema Eye Honor and has played at over 50 film festivals including Rotterdam, True/False and Sheffield. Her award-winning short Commodity City (2017) is an observational documentary about the world’s largest wholesale mall in Yiwu, China. New York-based Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese-American director/producer named one of “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and selected for the 2020 DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list. Panelist Bios Jessica Kingdon, Director/Editor/Cinematographer The Q&A features director, editor and cinematographer Jessica Kingdon, producer Kira Simon-Kennedy and producer and cinematographer Nathan Truesdell, moderated by Anne Thompson, Editor at Large at IndieWire.Ĭlosed Captioning is available for both the film and filmmaker conversation. This digital screening includes a moderated filmmaker conversation that will be on demand with the film. Exploring China’s social ladder, we see how each level makes possible the next. The film ascends through levels of the capitalist structure: workers running factory production, the middle class selling to consumers, and the elites reveling in a new level of hedonistic enjoyment. Mesmerizing in its imagery and shot in 51 locations across the country, Ascension is a cinematic exploration of China’s industrial supply chain that reveals the country’s growing class divide through staggering observations of labor, consumerism and wealth.
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