June 21: Tyrus Screening + Q & A with director Pamela Tom

• Wednesday, June 21 at 7:20 PM - 9 PM

• p	AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

• Find Tickets Tickets Available silver.afi.com

  
  
• IN MEMORIAM: Tyrus Wong (1910–2016)
  
  When former Disney animator and painter Tyrus Wong died in December 2016 at 106, obituaries told of a man whose life reads like an epic of the 20th century. From his birth in China in 1910 to a difficult immigration experience as a small boy and penurious upbringing in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Wong worked his way through art school and eventually found work in Disney's animation studio. When pre-production on BAMBI bogged down due to problems with overcrowding in the background of the early artwork, it was Wong's new landscape sketches — modeled on Song Dynasty- style landscape painting — that took the film in a bold new direction.
  
  TYRUS - A Documentary Film