King of Masks

I don’t go to the Seattle International Film Festival every year, and even when I do, I usually only see a couple of movies. So it’s notable that out of the thousands of movies I’ve seen in my life, so many of the ones that made a lasting impression were SIFF movies.

One of those movies was called King of Masks. That’s mostly because of the powerful adoption story at its heart. But its partly because it was my first exposure to Sichuan Change Art.

The second time that I took my daughter to eat at the restaurant at the China Community Art and Culture hotel, they were having a children’s festival performance. One of the performers was a Change Artist. My daughter didn’t know why I was so excited, because she hasn’t seen the movie. (We can’t afford the therapy that would trigger.)

But the Sichuan Change Art was the highlight of the evening.