Monday December 9th 2002

7:30PM – Sydney

THE QUIET AMERICAN
+ Q&A WITH PHILLIP NOYCE

This program is presented in association with

INSIDE FILM

Popcorn Taxi in association with Inside Film present a very special advanced preview screening of PHILLIP NOYCE’s topical new film, THE QUIET AMERICAN, starring MICHAEL CAINE, BRENDAN FRASER and DO THI HAI YEN.

Pulled from its release schedule after September 11, THE QUIET AMERICAN could not have re-emerged to make it’s mark at a more important time. American Aid worker Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, at the height of the Vietnamese fight for independence from French colonial rule. He befriends a London Times correspondent (Sir Michael Caine), and falls for his beautiful Vietnamese mistress (Hai Yen). Nothing, and no one, are as they seem, in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the American war in Southeast Asia.

After the screening, director PHILLIP NOYCE joins INSIDE FILM’s Editor BEC SMITH, for an indepth on-stage discussion and Q&A session about the film. For more info on PHILLIP, see below.

POPCORN TAXI
Admission (M )

Time : 7:30 pm.
Date: Monday December 9th 2002
Where: Valhalla Cinema
Address: 166 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
Entry: $15 / $13 Concession.
Tickets on sale from 6:00pm (sorry no bookings, cash only).

The Catalyst Foundation, together with Humanitarian Services for the Children of Vietnam, invites you to join us for our “Take a Chance on Me” Annual Benefit Dinner on Friday – December 6. 2002, at 5:30 p.m., in the Great Hall, US Bank Trust Center Building, Lowertown – 180 East Fifth Street – St. Paul, Minnesota

The Honored Guest Speaker, Kien Nguyen, is the Author of “The Unwanted” and “The Tapestries.” Kien Nguyen grew up an outsider in his native land. His once wealthy family, thrust into poverty at the dawn of a new political regime, lived amongst neighbors who treated them as pariahs, unwelcome remnants the colonial past. Kien himself, a child of mixed race (his father was American), was among the most unwanted. Told with a stark, poetic brilliance, Kien’s account of his early years-from the fall of Saigon, when at age eight he watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him and his family, to his eventual escape-is a work of profound emotional resonance, at once harrowing and inspiring. “The Unwanted” unforgettably records a universal human experience played out in extreme circumstances: the forging of an identity, a life. Kien Nguyen left Vietnam in 1985 through the United States’ Orderly Departure Program. After spending time at a refugee camp in the Philippines, Nguyen arrived in the United States. He now lives in New York City.

That evening, we’ll also be honoring the following people: Catalyst Foundation Community Award Recipient: John A. Gappa, Senior

Vice President and CFO, Universal Hospital Services, Bloomington, MN

Catalyst Foundation Service Award Recipient: Julie Hessler, Vietnam

Adoption Specialist, Children’s Home Society of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN

Cost for the evening is $55 per person and includes the meal; register online at www.catalystfoundation.org

VAN will help Clear Path International and the Adopt-A-Minefield campaign by hosting a dinner for the worldwide “Night of 1000 Dinners” annual fundraiser. To register contact info@van-online.org

We are one of many in our state and across the nation who will participate in this the global campaign to help rid the world of landmines and support landmine accident survivors. Clear Path International is one of 10 charter affiliates in this benefit spearheaded by the Adopt-A-Minefield campaign, which is drawing support from family hosts, restaurants, churches and community service clubs in Vermont, Washington, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon, Idaho and California and all over the world.

Here’s your chance to get involved in this worthy effort. Hosting a dinner is easy. Last year VAN hosted a buffet-style meal in Seattle with 20 guests in attendance. We exceeded our fundraising goal and hope to raise even more this year. 85% of our proceeds went directly to Clear Path International’s efforts in Vietnam and the remaining 15% we earmarked for distribution to relief efforts in Afghanistan.

To get involved, please register online at:

www.1000dinners.com

Who: Also-Known-As

What: Adoption Forum for Adult Adoptees Topic will be Identity

When: Sunday, December 1, 2002, 1-4 PM

Where: 39-60 54 Street, Woodside

Info: Adoption is a lifelong journey that contains complex emotions and issues. Individually our paths lead to different places, though they meet in crossroads throughout the course of our lives. Adoption Forums are sessions were adult intercountry adoptees come together to share their own experiences and feelings with other adult intercountry adoptees. Forums are small informal discussion groups intended to provide a casual and comfortable space to meet, build friendships and share experiences.

Directions: Take the 7 train to 52 Street and walk to 54 Street. Make a left. The road breaks so you need to look to your right. Continue on 54 and I am on the left hand side.

By car:

From West: Queens Boulevard to 58 Street. Make a left onto 58 Street. At light make left onto Roosevelt Avenue. Bear right onto Skillman andmake first right onto 54 Street. I am on the left hand side.

From East: Queens Boulevard to 58 Street. Make a right onto 58 Street. At light make left onto Roosevelt Avenue. Bear right onto Skillman and first right onto 54 Street. I am on the left hand side.

Contact: Lee-Ann Hanham by phone at 718-205-8033 or email at lhanham@mail.alsoknownas.org. If you are going to email, please leave a phone number to contact you to confirm. Please RSVP by November 27.