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From: min-tai pao
To: bill168@verizon.net ; caroline huang ; William Lai ; bruce pao ; weisho pao ; kung yao ;
mary_yao@yahoo.com ; pamela.pao@gmail.com ; kpao06@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:28 AM
Subject: Fwd: important
FYI
Subject: Need your help to support Ted Leonsis's movie -- Nanking
Dear Parents and friends,
Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman of AOL and owner of Washington Capitals hockey team, spent over a year and
his own money to make a documentary film about the massacre in Nanking when the Japanese army
invaded the city in 1937. During a two weeks period, the Japanese killed over hundreds of thousands of
innocent Chinese citizens and raped tens of thousands of women and young girls. It is a history that we
cannot forget. But some Japanese nationalists tried to change history and deny what happened almost 70
years ago. Ted's team has done a great deal of research. They found and collected over 500 hours of
historical film footages, interviewed many war survivors in China , and even talked to Japanese soldiers who
took part of the killing. This is a very powerful movie. It is now accepted by Sundance Film Festival and will be
shown at the festival in mid January 2007 (Check out Ted's Take - Nanking Film Accepted at Sundance ).
Ted's goal of making this movie is to let everyone in the world to see what the Japanese did to Chinese and
he wanted the Japanese government to apologize to the Chinese people.
Ted's team created a web site to educate people about the upcoming film and they wanted to collect one
million petitions from people wanting to see the movie when it is coming out.
Ted sent the following message to a group of people asking for help. As members of this Chinese community,
I strongly encourage everyone of us to support this effort by signing your own name, asking your family to
sign their names, and forward the message to your friends and others in your community. I have signed my
name already! Let's show the world that we care about the victims of our fellow Chinese citizens and history
cannot be changed.
Please visit the web site http://Nankingthefilm.com.
From: min-tai pao
To: bill168@verizon.net ; caroline huang ; William Lai ; bruce pao ; weisho pao ; kung yao ;
mary_yao@yahoo.com ; pamela.pao@gmail.com ; kpao06@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:28 AM
Subject: Fwd: important
FYI
Subject: Need your help to support Ted Leonsis's movie -- Nanking
Dear Parents and friends,
Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman of AOL and owner of Washington Capitals hockey team, spent over a year and
his own money to make a documentary film about the massacre in Nanking when the Japanese army
invaded the city in 1937. During a two weeks period, the Japanese killed over hundreds of thousands of
innocent Chinese citizens and raped tens of thousands of women and young girls. It is a history that we
cannot forget. But some Japanese nationalists tried to change history and deny what happened almost 70
years ago. Ted's team has done a great deal of research. They found and collected over 500 hours of
historical film footages, interviewed many war survivors in China , and even talked to Japanese soldiers who
took part of the killing. This is a very powerful movie. It is now accepted by Sundance Film Festival and will be
shown at the festival in mid January 2007 (Check out Ted's Take - Nanking Film Accepted at Sundance ).
Ted's goal of making this movie is to let everyone in the world to see what the Japanese did to Chinese and
he wanted the Japanese government to apologize to the Chinese people.
Ted's team created a web site to educate people about the upcoming film and they wanted to collect one
million petitions from people wanting to see the movie when it is coming out.
Ted sent the following message to a group of people asking for help. As members of this Chinese community,
I strongly encourage everyone of us to support this effort by signing your own name, asking your family to
sign their names, and forward the message to your friends and others in your community. I have signed my
name already! Let's show the world that we care about the victims of our fellow Chinese citizens and history
cannot be changed.
Please visit the web site http://Nankingthefilm.com.
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Nanking Film Accepted at Sundance
I am honored beyond words to tell everyone that my film called Nanking was accepted today into the
Sundance Film Festival. Sundance reviewed more than 3,287 films and accepted 122 and we were fortunate
to be placed into the Documentary Competition of the festival.
The Sundance Film Festival is the first film festival of the year running from January 18 - 28 in Park City, Utah.
It has earned a reputation as the most serious and highest quality marketplace for independent film makers
to mingle with one another and to show their films to people in the industry and the media. As it is a true
directors forum as well, my sincerest congratulations to our directors Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman.
This film, as I have blogged about before was a true labor of love for me and the entire crew. I was motivated
to tell the story of some very heroic westerners who saved the lives of approximately 250,000 Chinese during
the rape of Nanking - to pay homage to their work - to put in memoriam the lives that were lost at Nanking and
to pay tribute to Iris Chang, whose brave work authoring the book the Rape of Nanking needed to be
recognized.
I am hopeful that this film also shows that all wars create their own levels of hell and that common men and
women can rise up and band together to conduct incredible feats of kindness and heroics.
I also want to praise the great work of our cast, just to name a few: Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway,
Jurgen Prochnow and Stephen Dorff.
I look forward to going to Sundance to experience the camaraderie of follow producers and directors and
meeting people in the industry.
Tags: Ted Leonsis Nanking Sundance Film Festival Woody Harrelson Mariel Hemingway Bill Guttentag Dan
Sturman Park City Iris Chang
Posted on November 29, 2006 4:54:00 PM
I am honored beyond words to tell everyone that my film called Nanking was accepted today into the
Sundance Film Festival. Sundance reviewed more than 3,287 films and accepted 122 and we were fortunate
to be placed into the Documentary Competition of the festival.
The Sundance Film Festival is the first film festival of the year running from January 18 - 28 in Park City, Utah.
It has earned a reputation as the most serious and highest quality marketplace for independent film makers
to mingle with one another and to show their films to people in the industry and the media. As it is a true
directors forum as well, my sincerest congratulations to our directors Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman.
This film, as I have blogged about before was a true labor of love for me and the entire crew. I was motivated
to tell the story of some very heroic westerners who saved the lives of approximately 250,000 Chinese during
the rape of Nanking - to pay homage to their work - to put in memoriam the lives that were lost at Nanking and
to pay tribute to Iris Chang, whose brave work authoring the book the Rape of Nanking needed to be
recognized.
I am hopeful that this film also shows that all wars create their own levels of hell and that common men and
women can rise up and band together to conduct incredible feats of kindness and heroics.
I also want to praise the great work of our cast, just to name a few: Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway,
Jurgen Prochnow and Stephen Dorff.
I look forward to going to Sundance to experience the camaraderie of follow producers and directors and
meeting people in the industry.
Tags: Ted Leonsis Nanking Sundance Film Festival Woody Harrelson Mariel Hemingway Bill Guttentag Dan
Sturman Park City Iris Chang
Posted on November 29, 2006 4:54:00 PM
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