Don't know if just me & Jimmy, or if others also couldn't access the showing tonight. Got my ticket yesterday and it said a confirmation email would be sent 6 hours before the showtime today -- but nothing. Too busy to check in earlier and now have missed first part. Don't know if I was supposed to reply to something yesterday and that's why I never got my ticket info. Will there be any other options for those of us who cannot view this tonight?

On April 26th, I received an email from kickstarter and this was part of the message:

"...Today we can announce the result – we are collaborating with Constellation to give all of you a chance to watch the film together in a virtual theater experience. After the screening, I will do a 30-minute live Q&A. This special advance screening will happen on May 22 at 7:30pm, both EST and PST. That means you have two chances to tune in and watch the film, and to chat with me."

I responded, that day, with a confirmation wanting to view the 7:30 PST screening on 5/22. I was sent a ticket with a password to use. Cut to:

It is now, Tuesday May 22 , 6:25 PM/PST and I have been unable to access any information about a screening tonight for 'Never Sorry' except for this little item posted at the CORE twitter page:

Ai Weiwei Film ‏@AWWNeverSorry
RT @musefilmandtv: Great preview of @AWWNeverSorry @coreaccess last night, dir. @aliklay did great Q&A afterward. Film opens 7/27! @aiww

Retweeted by CORE:

What gives?

So let me get this straight, there was a Great preview *last night* (5/21) of 'Never Sorry' and Alison did a great Q&A afterward. Nice. Kind of sucks that the date I had for the screening was for tonight 5/22. Anybody else out there get lost in the cyberspace shuffle?

Yeah, as a backer, I'm just a bit disappointed in the way this whole thing has gone down. Still, happy for Ai Weiwei and his family. Hope the film does well, no matter.

Jimmy Arone

Just wanted to say 謝謝 for having the online streaming of the movie, finally got to see all you've been working hard on, and it was definitely worth it :) Wonderfully done documentary, loved all the interviews, first-hand everything with Ai Wei-Wei and the power of social media that he used so proficiently well. Nice Q & A too, got my question in! Good luck with the film festivals!

An online screening is great, but the scheduling doesn't work for me. When will we see what we were promised when we funded the project... 'a digital download of the film when it becomes available'. If you are showing it on the festival circuit, I would say that it is 'available'. Holding what was promised from your backers is disingenuous.

Is it possible to have a screening at a time which works for people in Europe? The both times are in the middle of the night.

I think everyone who helped back the project are happy to see the film going threw festival rotation, but are a little surprised to hear that we won't receive our film til 2 years after compilation. How about a online screening for the backers of the project? It would be nice for people who have been in support of the project since the beginning get the same opportunity to view it in the same way festival patrons are able to.

Has this project finished since May2011? I didn't receive the digital download yet, has anyone else? Thanks!

Hi Alison,

Thanks for the update. I missed the inbox email button sorry! Apparently the "Jasmine" crackdown is still going strong. Maybe I'll live long enough to see a non-communist China someday where the Ai Weiwei's won't have to deal with this type of repression.

Cheers,
Ace

Quote from http://molihuaxingdong.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_4432.html
Summary: Ai Weiwei received severe physical torture and admitted his “economic crime”. Fu Zhenghua (head of Beijing Public Safety Bureau), and Liu Qibao (Party Secretary of Sichuan), both of whom almost met their rightful destruction due to Ai Weiwei's investigation on the earthquake in Sichuan and Changan Street Protest in Beijing in Feb 2010, now retaliate Ai Weiwei, tortured him and made him convicted as the initiator and organizer of China's Jasmine Revolution, supported by fake testimonies from participants in Beijing and Sichuan. Hu Jintao was the first one of nine members in the Politburo Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee to sign Fu Zhenghua's report on Ai Weiwei, and the rest eight members had to follow suite. It is considered more severe than March 14 Tibet Crisis in 2008 and July 5 Xinjiang Crisis. Fu Zhenghua and Liu Qibao's retaliation on Ai Weiwei made a huge catastrophe on China's international image.

English version wil be published on April 23, Saturday morning.

I have never felt so infuriated in my entire life, as if my head is gonna to blow up, I was crying with rage!!! They want to play big and we'll entertain them, we will make it even bigger, we're going to make Ai Wei Wei a hero. Please Alison, and everyone who sees this, help us, use your influence, help us spread the words. We will not stop until this regime gets destroyed.

P/s. According to change.org, "For the past four days, the Change.org website has been repeatedly targeted by cyber attacks coming from China that aim to bring our site down, which would keep people from signing the petition.". The CCP is announcing once again to the World, that the fears no one, they are a group of thugs that respect nothing.

I am a Chinese and a Chinese Jasmine supporter.

This is incredible, Alison. It's no simple things to bring 420+ people together behind a piece of art and journalism.

Keep your head up Ai Weiwei. In these chaotic times your symbolism of peace, expression, and creativity bring much needed hope and inspiration to the world. I see you free and living in the comfort your family and friends.
Willow Jon Collamer

I watched and highly recommended your PBS Ai Weiwei doc http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ai-wei-wei/
All the best in making the full doc. Do you have a target completion date for the doc?

Saw his incredible installation at the Tate Modern in January and watched the video of the making of the sunflower seeds. Ai weiwei is a powerful voice for humanity. Thanks so much for your efforts. Am delighted to have the opportunity to contribute.

Ai weiwei is one of my favorite Chinese artist (together with Xu Bing), his works are original and captured the spirit of contemporary China. His art is less "collectible" and his fame outside China doesn't match his true talent & influence he wields in China. More people should know about him, about his art beyond the fact that he is being detained.

I just made a post to Current TV http://current.com/items/93134994.htm

I am also spreading the information about your project. Good luck!

Happy to learn about this project in Kickstarter. Learned about Ai Weiwei for the first time just the other day when I saw the Frontline piece. Just pledged and rallying my friends to do same. Best wishes, Alison, in the completion of this project.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/ai-weiweis-new-york-project-to-go-forward-with-or-without-him/…

Said Ai Wei Wei @aiww "This regime is supported by the most shameless liars; they're backing up lies, disparaging people who are with conscious, and enjoying privileges handed out by the dictators. These people will be put on trial."

这个政权由一些最不要脸的说谎者拥戴着，他们靠帮腔说谎、蔑视羞辱良知，享受着独裁统治下的优惠，这些人是要受到审判的 --艾未未

I've been tweeting and writing protest letters for the release of Ai. This is the email address I found for the Government of China.
english@mail.gov.cn

Regards,
Ace Hanna