The film won 12 awards, was the official selection in over 40 international film festivals, and played in cinemas in over 100 cities in the U.S., as well as other countries in the world like Germany, Austria, Switzerland. It was also release in theaters in Taiwan in June 2009. After the film received positive front page Chinese language press in Taiwan, the People's Daily (a media arm of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China), wrote an article criticizing the film, in an attempt to discredit it.