ACE@Berkeley is glad to present you the movie screening of "Crocodile in the Yangtze" and a talk with the director, former Alibaba Vice President Mr. Porter Erisman on Saturday, March 16, 6:30-9:00pm, at 60 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley. The event will be free and served with refreshment. Learn more about the event and RSVP HERE.
ACE is glad to present you the movie screening of "Crocodile in the Yangtze" and a talk with the director, former Alibaba Vice President Mr. Porter Erisman on March 16, 6:30-9:00 pm, at 60 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley. The event will be in English and served with refreshment, please RSVP early to reserve yourself a spot HERE.
Event Info:
Saturday, March 16, 6:30 PM-9:00 PM
60 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley
6:30-7:00 ACE Mixer (with refreshment)
7:00-7:15 Story Behind Story (Porter sharing his story of making the movie)
7:15-8:30 Movie Screening
8:30-9:00 Q&A, Discussion and Mixer
Crocodile in the Yangtze: A Westerner Inside China's Alibaba.com——
Movie Screening and a talk with director Porter Erisman
Winner of Jury Award & Audience Award for "Best Documentary" at SF United Film Festival
Winner of Best Film on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Silicon Valley Film Festival
"Gripping…Emotional…The real-life version of 'The Social Network.' Only in Mandarin!";- Eric Markowitz, Inc. Magazine
"An inspiring journey into the new China."- Helen H. Wang, Forbes.com contributor
"Fascinating…Entertaining!"- Inga Aksamit, Examiner.com
"A compelling and thought provoking look at the changing modern world." - Craig Kennedy, LivingInCinema.com
"E-commerce enterprises should study it frame-by-frame."- Joe Bendel, Libertas Film Magazine
"A rare behind-the-scenes look at China's Internet revolution."- Rebecca A. Fannin, Forbes.com contributor
About Crocodile in the Yangtze
Crocodile in the Yangtze follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jack Ma, as he battles US giant eBay on the way to building China's first global Internet company, Alibaba Group. An independent memoir written, directed and produced by an American who worked in Ma's comany for eight years, Crocodile in the Yangtze captures the emotional ups and downs of life in a Chinese Internet startup at a time when the Internet brought China face-to-face with the West.
Crocodile in the Yangtze draws on 200 hours of archival footage filmed by over 35 sources between 1995 and 2009. The film presents a strikingly candid portrait of Ma and his company, told from the point of view of an "American fly on a Chinese wall" who witnessed the successes and the mistakes Alibaba encountered as it grew from a small apartment into a global company employing more than 16,000 staff.
Learn more at http://www.crocodileintheyangtze.com/
About Porter Erisman
Porter first landed in China in 1994 and, after a year of Chinese language study, fell into a six-month stint as host of China through Foreigners' Eyes, a travel program on China Central Television.
After studying for an MBA in the United States from 1996-1998, Porter returned to China and worked at Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing, overseeing an Internet marketing group as China's Internet began to take off. Lured by the excitement of joining an Internet startup, Porter joined Alibaba.com in April 2000, just as the company moved out of a small apartment. From 2000-2008, Porter worked as a Vice-President at Alibaba.com and Alibaba Group, at various times leading the company's international website operations, international marketing and corporate affairs. In 2002, Porter took a year off from Alibaba to travel around-the-world, during which time he spent two months riding a bicycle across China retracing the southern route of the Long March. Porter's career began in Washington, DC in 1992-1994 where he taught leadership workshops for high school students at the Close Up Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to hands-on education about the US democratic system.
Porter received a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Additional studies include courses at the Beijing Language University, the New York Film Academy and the Culinary Institute of America. Crocodile in the Yangtze is Porter's first film.
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