“Crime and Entertainment: A Double Bill” – Misha Glenny, Cybercrime and the Red Light Revolution

Posted: March 21st, 2011 | No Comments »

The Shanghai Foreign Correspondents’ Club Presents:

“Crime and Entertainment: A Double Bill”

Mao Livehouse Shanghai

Thursday, March 24th, 6 pm – 9:30 pm

To celebrate the new Mao Livehouse Shanghai, the FCC has organised a special double bill with a best-selling author talk from 6 pm to 7 pm and a film screening plus Q&A from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.

“Organised Crime to Cyber Crime”

Misha Glenny

Organised criminal groups began to understand five years ago they could maximise profits and minimise risks by migrating from the real world to the virtual world. Misha Glenny, author of the international bestseller “McMafia”, spent the last three years interviewing hackers, cybercops and cyberthieves for his new book, “DarkMarket”, which will be published later this year. He will talk about how criminal hackers and spooks are locked in a struggle that impacts national security and industrial espionage.

“Red Light Revolution”

Film screening + Q&A with Sam Voutas and Melanie Ansley

“Red Light Revolution” is an indie Chinese comedy about an ordinary Beijinger who opens a sex shop in a hutong in order to make ends meet. When Shunzi is fired from his taxi company, his wife promptly leaves him and throws him out of their house. With nowhere else to go, he returns to his parents’ courtyard home for solace. As money pressures rise, his parents urge him to forget about “face” and take any job that will have him. After the film, director Sam Voutas and producer Melanie Ansley will answer questions.

Venue details: Mao Livehouse Shanghai, 308 Chongqing Nan Lu (by Jianguo Lu), Unit 3F
(Tel: 130 0415 3002)

Admission: Members free, 70 RMB for non-members

RSVP: fcc.sfcc@gmail.com

About the Speaker:

Misha Glenny is an award winning British author and journalist. A former BBC Central Europe correspondent, he is also the author of four books. His latest “McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime” has been translated into over 30 languages and is being developed by NBC into a television series. His upcoming book “DarkMarket: crime@21century.com” will be published in September.

Sam Voutas is an Australian-born filmmaker who first lived in Beijing in the 1980s and has worked with several major Asian filmmakers. He played war reporter Durdin in Lu Chuan’s “City of Life and Death” and also acted for Du Jiayi. His documentaries on China have been screened by NHK in Japan, KBS (Korea), PTS (Taiwan) and on the Australia Network. Red Light Revolution is his second feature film.

Melanie Ansley is a Canadian-born filmmaker and producer who spent most of her life growing up in China and in 2002 produced “The Last Breadbox”, a documentary about three Beijingers in the run-up to the Olympic Games. In 2003, she made a second documentary, “Shanghai Bride”. She has also directed two feature-length horror movies and freelanced with HBO, NBC and the Discovery Channel.

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