Dancing With the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation

California Premiere and Special Event

Director Ward Serrill and Red Pine scheduled to attend. Event features: a Director Q&A, conversation with Red Pine, moderated by American Book Award Winner, May-lee Chai, and musical performance by Spring Cheng. Book signing will follow.

Two Shows Only! August 11 at 12:00 p.m. & 3:15 p.m.

A master of ancient Chinese poetry and the search for a lost tradition. Bill Porter, who goes by the pen name Red Pine, is recognized as a living gateway to ageless Chinese history and culture. He has published over thirty books, including Road to Heaven, his quest to find hermits in the Zhongnan Mountains that reignited a movement in modern China to seek enlightenment through poetry and mountain solitude.

The film follows Bill’s adventures as a child of a bank robber, raised in a gilded household, who turned his back on American devotion to materialism and went off to live in monasteries and mountains in Taiwan. He pursued a fascination with Buddhism and Chinese poetry and is renowned around the world as an expert of Chinese poetry translation.

A Co-Presentation with City Lights, San Francisco Zen Center, and Buddhist Film Foundation.