AMERICAVILLE (2020) 

80 minutes, HD video

Hidden among the mountains north of Beijing, a replica of the Wyoming town of Jackson Hole 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 Jackson Hole; only to find the American idyll harder to attain than what was promised to her.

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Visit the film's official website here: www.americavillefilm.com 

Grant funding provided by The Whickers, Asian Cinema Fund, Bruckmann Trust, Morrow Fund, and Bailyn Fund. 

Fiscal sponsorship provided by the International Documentary Association.

Accommodation sponsorship provided by Shangri-La Beijing and the Orenda Company.



​Screenings:

Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2020
US-China Institute and East Asian Studies Center, USC, 2020
Long Institute at the University of California – Irvine, 2020
Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California – Los Angeles, 2020
Jackson Hole for the Arts presented by the Wyoming Humanities Council, 2020
Center of the AmericanWest at the University of Colorado – Boulder, 2020
Salem Film Festival, 2020
Architekturzentrum Vienna, 2020
San Francisco Documentary Festival, 2020
Copenhagen Architecture Festival, 2020
​Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, 2020
​ArchFilm Lund, 2020 *Winner "Best Feature Documentary"
Bend Design Week, 2020
Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam, 2020
Sjon Film Festival, 2021
Seoul Eco Film Festival, 2021
Barnes Film Festival, 2021
Miasto Movie, Wroclaw, 2021
Seoul Biennale, 2021
NorthxNortheast International Film Festival, 2021
Taiwan Ethnographic Film Festival, 2021
Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, 2021
DESIGNAgora, 2021
AsiaLens at the Spurlock Museum, 2022
ByDesign Film Festival, 2022
Association for Asian Studies Conference, 2022
Architecture Film Days, Zurich, 2022
Phoenix Center for the Arts, Arizona, 2023
Suburbinale, Vienna, 2023