 And in the studio, my name is Jeff Shaw, and we're lucky today to be joined by Ning Juan. She's going to be talking a little bit today about the Davis International Film Festival. Ning, thank you for coming in today. I'm glad you're able to make it. So tell me, the Davis International Film Festival, before we talk about that, I want to talk a little bit about the Davis Cross Cultural Foundation. So this is a non-profit organization, and you are the chair of it, correct? Yes. And when was this organization founded? The Davis Cross Cultural Foundation was founded last year, in early spring, because we heard this beautiful story about the Chinese and American people, the friendship. And you, go ahead and tell me a little bit about that story, sorry, yeah, go ahead. During that time, you know, Chinese person visited the U.S. and he, when the first time he visited the U.S. This is the president? Yeah, the current president Xi Jinping. And he told the story about, you see, Davis Professor. So he was growing up in China, raised in China. He had this great memory about China, and he always wanted to go back, but because China has this cultural revolution, and all these, you know, changes, he wasn't be able to make to that. And about when was that? That, that was like 1970s, yeah. So he couldn't go back, huh? Yeah, he kind of go back to China, and he passed away, but his wife, Mrs. Gardner, was, you know, remembered, you know, when he passed away, he said, Kulin, Kulin, he, that's a location. Okay. So actually, she doesn't know what was that. Yes. And there was a visiting scholar, you know, came from China, living in her house, and they'll just try to figure out what is that about. And eventually, he found out from stamp that was a place in China. She happened to, she saw the stamp. She just gave all these things to this visitor scholar and said, you know, I want to know what is Kulin. And he found out from stamp, writes down his Kulin. And then he wrote an article about, you know, this story, you know, how this professor, you know, memorizes childhood, you know, the place. And this article was published in the People's Daily newspaper. That's the government's newspaper. And at that time, China's person was a leader of the province at that place. Of that particular location. Yeah, a particular Fujian province. Okay. And he read this article and he said, wow, you know, that's a great story about the Chinese and the United States, the people, you know, the friendship. Yes. And he found out where is this person. Yes. And he invited Professor Gardner's wife to China to visit the village. Okay. At that time, I believe, you know, they're still like childhood friends of the professors. Oh, what? The friends, you know, from the childhood. Oh, yes. That's like the people are 90s, almost 100 years old. Okay. Yeah. And then, so that great story was, you know. So she visited and? Yeah, she visited. And the story is because this is a, so it's a very good story about the friendship between two countries. Yes. And when the president visited the United States on 19, 2012, he told the story to everyone in the. He came to California. No, the California, I believe, is in Washington. Okay, yeah, sure. And then what connect to us is because this story is about the Davies. Yes. Yeah. So my, you know, my brother, he's like, works in the film area in China. So I told this story. I said, do you know, this story is so beautiful. And it's about us, Davies. Yes. So we. So he was inspired and you, just to back up a second, you were the, you said you were the principal of the, of the. You said Chinese school. So I've done, I've lived in Davies more than 20 years, 24 years. And a lot of people at home are probably familiar with the New Star Chinese school for the classes that you, and the classes are no longer offered? Are they still going on? It's just my kids going off. I'm not, you know, actually, I'm still going there to dance. Right. But the, the mission of the Chinese New Star was to have cultural exchange and you're sort of continuing with the cultural exchange mission. Yes, yes. But just with a different nonprofit now, I would say. Yes. And so go ahead and tell me about your brother then. So your brother is involved in the film, film industry in Los Angeles? In China. Oh, in China. Okay. And then, you know, I, I told him about this story and then he told his friends, though, those are very famous, you know, actors, directors and all these people. They say, oh, you know, why don't we, you know, we want to support you. Yeah, why don't we go to Davies and they did, you know, that's why the last year so many of them came to here. Yeah. Yeah. So they, and they had to pay their own way or all the start. So this, this to let the audience know, then last year was the inaugural year for the Davies International Film Festival. So you're nonprofit, the Davies Cultural Cross Cultural Foundation foundation. Yes. You have a board of directors, you're on the board, you're the chair of the board of directors. And last year you, as one of your main, your main project, I would say, was hold, was starting the inaugural Davies International Film Festival, which we were at and we recorded some of the footage. And there were a lot of people from China there. Yes. And so they have to, they paid all their own way. They had, how did the, how did it all come about? Yeah. So those people are very famous stars in China. Right. Usually, you know, you have to pay a lot of money to, you know, invite them to any event. Yes. But they just, they just like the Davies this place. Yes. And they came for free. But we just have the whole thing then. So those money came from. Did everyone know the story that sort of connected Davies to China? Yeah, I believe like the chancellor of UC Davies knows. And many people know about this story, especially, you know, if you know a lot of Chinese culture. Yeah, so and it sounds like it was, do people in China then sort of wondering what is Davies like or what is because of the professor, and who's professor, what was his name again? Yeah, his name is Milton Gardner. OK. And the, and the city again was Gulin? Yeah, the, the Chinese, it's a village. It's a village, OK. It's called Kulin, yeah. It's a small, very, very small village. Yeah, it's a very small village. And so this year you're adding in, so let's back up to the Davies International Film Festival. Then this year it's happening on October 16th. It's again at the Mondavi Center or? No, it's at ARC. At the ARC Pavilion. Yeah. So still on the UC Davis campus. Still UC Davis. Very prestigious campus among agriculture schools and everything. And it's at the ARC Pavilion, is that right? Yes. OK, so the same location as last year with the, because the ARC Pavilion, oh, the ARC is. No, no, the ARC is the other side of campus. That's right, the other side of campus, correct. And so that's on October 16th. Prior to that, you're having an event at the state capital. And that is related to our wonderful scroll that we see before us here. Tell us a little bit about that as we look at this scroll. Yeah, so before the festival, we will have Chinese fashion, like what I'm wearing. It's called the qi pao. And how do you say that again? A little bit slower? Qi pao. Qi pao, so how does it, maybe it's even slower than that? How do you say? It's qi pao. Qi pao, OK. Yeah, so this is a kind of a tradition Chinese custom, what I'm wearing. We'll have, like everyone wear this custom, we'll go to state capital on the October 14th. At the west side of a building, we'll have a fresh mob. And we'll kind of seeming fashion, you know. So we'll have one. And how many people do you expect to be there dressed in this wonderful costume? I'm expecting 80 people here. And on this particular scroll, what is the significance of this scroll that we have here? So this is a part of China's fashion culture event. So this team that came to Davis, that came to San Francisco, they went to, like, Canada, Tokyo, and New Zealand, and Australia, you know, many countries, places, and they're doing a very long one for the Chinese world record. For the what now? It's called the Chinese, how did I say it right? Yeah, yeah, OK. Yeah, world record. So we're just a part of it, but we have like 150 people, local people from Davis, from Sacramento, and made this. So this is about if we were to unscroll this, which we can't because it's so large, we would have 150 people on here, basically. And was it taken all at once, or sort of? Yeah, it's taken for like four-day projects. So they have makeup artists that come to here and two teams. Wow. Yeah, and they did like all this. That's amazing. And they bring the customer to here. You know, not everyone have this. OK, and where do they all come from? Do you have to arrange for that as well? Yeah, I arranged them. So we rent a hotel in the whole hotel in Sacramento for four days. And then we bring like more than 100 Chinese customers here. And then I found the local people who willing to participate that have the pay of fee. To get, you know, everyone got the long scroll, like individual ones. Yes, yeah. So getting back, so this is all part of the build up to the hype to the International Film Festival, which is happening on the 16th. And tell me, are these films from all from China? Or where are they from? No, it is like International Film Festival. We accept the movies online. So I believe it's more than like 800s, all these films. Oh, wow. Yeah. And for the two years, we received more than 1,200 films. OK, and this is all through your brothers primarily organizing? No, it's all the non-profit here. So we are the non-profit that we have. I do want to recognize our board members. Please do. Yeah, Jason Ninh, Davis, from Davis. And Lydia Sen, who is our treasure. And Xiaoping Diao, who is from Sacramento. And Jun Wan, who is from China. So that's our board members. And so can anyone attend the Davis International Film Festival? Anyone from the public? Yes, it is open to public. And if you go to our website, that's davisif.org. You'll see how to buy the tickets and join us. And we welcome everyone. OK, and is anyone welcome to attend the Chinese Fashion Project event on October before the Film Festival at the State Capitol? Definitely. This is very exciting news. We invited, we found the teacher, the dance teacher, who is the most famous dancer in China. She just immigrated to the US. And I found her. I said, OK, could you help us just organize? And she did everything. That's excellent. I think what you've put together is just an amazing, large event. I mean, the amount of people involved and the amount of films that people can see. What films about will be shown? We have like the finest, we have about 20. But the some are very short movie. You can see like animation, The Minute Ender, a lot of these kind of movie. So we'll show to you here, right? We are. We're going to actually leave tonight, today's show, with an example from the film, an example of a film from the Davis International Film Festival that Ning has made available to us. So we have a special treat for that. I want to remind everyone, if they want more information, to go to davisif.org. That's the Davis International Film Festival. If you want more information about Ning Won or the Davis Cross-Cultural Foundation, you can go to dccf.org, I believe. Yes. So thanks for joining me today, Ning. I hope you have a very successful event on October 14 and on the 16th. And please enjoy this animation from the Davis International Film Festival.