The Golden Fan
Chinese, American Julie Lee buys a Ch'ing Dynasty story fan in Hong Kong and returns to her home in Los Angeles. When she arrives home she is kidnapped, threatened, robbed and finally, in the end, she is persuaded to help a family of art thieves discover the resting place of a three hundred year old family treasure whose map is painted on the face of Julie's fan. This is a romantic comedy about art, art thieves, forgeries and fakes and takes place between Hong Kong and Los Anageles.
SYNOPSIS
Julie Lee is a Chinese American shopping in Hong Kong for antique hand fans. She buys a Ch'ing Dynasty Story Fan from the famous Teresa Coleman's and returns home to Los Angeles where all of her troubles suddenly begin.
Julie's luggage does not arrive with her flight, her house is robbed, she is kidnapped, along with Beverly Hills antiquities dealer, Terrance and they are both taken to China by a group of art thieves who are searching for a family treasure three hundred years old.
The secret to the resting place of this treasure is a map, shown in pictures and painted across the face of Julie's Ch'ing Dynasty fan. Julie and Terrance are forced to join the thieves and together they find this ancient treasure in the courtyard of The Old Church in Central Hong Kong, just below Hollywood Road.
They return to the courtyard at night and carry the family goods back to their flat where they discover that the treasure is museum quality clothes from the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties. These articles, along with a Seventeenth Century cross worth millions, constitute a National Treasure and a huge archeological find.
Julie and Terrance help give the goods to the National Museum of Art in Kowloon and they return home where they discover that the goods given to the museum were all fakes.
"The Golden Fan" is a fast paced comedy about art, art fakes, forgeries and thieves. The story takes place between Los Angeles and Hong Kong and is a modern day Dramedy as Calendar Magazine describes that word, a comedy with dramatic situations. Julie and Terrance, find out in the end, that even the best can be fooled.
MarkMcQuown@ca.rr.com 661-714-0976
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Mr. Mc Quown has been honored with winning at the 1997 Santa Clarita International Film Festival, Animation Division with The Rocking Horse Christmas, the 2000 Telluride Independent Film Festival with The Tahoe Signal, the 2002 Telluride Independent Film Festival with Dot Gone and the 2002-2003 Key West Independent Film Festival with Pier 21.
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