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A feature documentary film on living the American dream in China's Wild West

Hidden among the mountains north of Beijing, a Wild West themed community promises to deliver the American dream to its several thousand Chinese residents. In Americaville, Annie Liu escapes China’s increasingly uninhabitable capital city to pursue happiness, freedom, romance, and spiritual fulfillment in the town; only to find the American idyll harder to attain than what was promised to her.

 

HD Video, 80 Minutes, 2020

 

Director, co-producer, and editor: Adam James Smith

Co-producers: Qi Zhang, Wang Qihan, Wei Guang, Song Ke, Tang Yi

Music composer: Rob Scales

Advisor: Rupert Stasch

 

 

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Director Adam James Smith outside his ho

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

 

Adam James Smith is an award-winning, US-based filmmaker originally from the United Kingdom. His films focus on the expression of identity in urban China and include The Land of Many Palaces (2015) co-directed with Song Ting, on the “ghost city” of Ordos, Inner Mongolia and his first solo-feature, Americaville (2020) on an American Wild West-themed community in Beijing’s suburbs. The Land of Many Palaces participated in the Sundance Institute workshop and premiered at the 2015 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The film then went on to screen at festivals around the world, picking up awards in Moscow, Rome, and Kyoto. Adam also embarked on an academic tour in North America, screening at Harvard, Columbia, Duke, Stanford, the Asia Society, and many more universities and organizations.

 

Adam holds degrees from Stanford and Cambridge, the latter of which he is currently an Affiliated Filmmaker at the university’s Visual Anthropology Lab. 

 

 

www.adamjamessmithfilm.com

 

 

 

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