2019 FreshPitch

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01 The Mirrror Volume Ⅱ: The Beginnw of Life

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 120 min

Director & Producer : Lu Zhaokai

Photographer :Yuan Zhe


CONTENT

The documentary Mirror Volume I tells a story of three families that are turned in trouble because three adolescent children from the families were dropped out of school . Parents have to send their children to a special school in order to imperiously make some changes in their children , but unexpectedly learn something soul touching from a story of education dedicated to the age of enlightenment . The documentary the Mirror Volume II : the Beginning of Life continues the ideological expression of the Mirror , which goes deeper and further and focuses on solutions . Many problems in connection with family sentimental education emerge in the families when the children in these families start their adolescent life , however the very important education period for a family is when its child is between zero and three years old . The Mirror Volume II : the Beginning of Life focuses on the families with children in the 0-3 age group .

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02 Smog Director

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 80 min

Director : Han Meng

Producer : Du Hai


CONTENT

Li , deputy chief of the City environmental protection bureau, is in charge of air quality. He is a local Communist Party cadre who is dedicated , hardworking , and determined to fight air polution . His assistant Haige is in charge of a team of experts hired by the city .

 They are in charge of formulating and implementing local air pollution control policies , and have , in the past , achieved outstanding results . With no successful examples to draw on , they need to explore new , Chinese methods to fight air pollution .

 This film shows how the government , one of China ' s most polluted cities , quickly and effectively fights air pollution . How the measures will be sustainable methods .


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03 The Last Tribe In China

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 120 min

Director : Liu Chunyu

Producer : Geng Qingtao


CONTENT

Weng Ding, a Wa village, is near China - Myanmar border, southwest China ' s Yunnan province, has a history of nearly 300 years. It is known as the " last primitive tribe." It has preserved the most complete typical architectural style of the Wa nationality, the belief system and the most primitive folk customs. In 2012, in order to develop tourism , the government decided to relocate Weng Ding and to establish a new village. The documentary crew selected two families to track records . The documentary records the change and replacement of the institutional discourse power of Weng Ding' s system of the tribe owner, the community' s grassroots organization system, and the tourism system intervened by the outside world.


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04 Year Of The Blank

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 90 min

Director : Buni Bayan

Producer : Ricky Qi


CONTENT

The film records linearly the working holiday life of the young group firstly from their working life then to their experience in travel and exchange work for accommodation . The film is to show the real life of the young group and depict their emotions and inner pursuits at different stages . Two groups one subjects will be selected in the film , one of which consists of the persons who are having working holiday , and the other has the members who had the working holiday experience ten years ago . Two to three persons from the first group will be filmed in respect of their current life , especially of their daily life and work , interaction and relationship with other working holiday vacationers around them . The other group consists of about five to eight members . It has novel writers who were white - collars before , peddlers and these who were office workers but rove al over the world now . The film mainly focuses on interviews made to the members of this group at some fixed scenes , and filming by documentary is made besides in respect of their current conditions . Two clues in the film are paralleled depicted by shooting the current life of one group and the memories about the similar working holiday life experienced by the other group . In the contrast , the film shows how similar or different they are in respect of their understanding of the life in the “ vacuum environment " and of the relationship between people .



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05 American Girls

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 90 min

Director : Amanda Liptiz

Producer : Zheng Jing


CONTENT

Three girls born in China and adopted by American families grew up in different family backgrounds and social environments . They found each other through a DNA GeneBank and realized that they are cousins with blood ties . Like every girl of the same age , they face annoyance , confusions , changes and intricacy in the course of growing . At the same time , since they start to know each other , the three girls gradually become interested in their Chinese descent after having gained more information about their similar birth experience . Finally , they make a decision to make a trip to China for seek their blood connection . The film - making was started in 2018, documenting the little things happening in their life . This year , we will continue to film the three girls , enter their world , and record the unique trip they are going to make to China with our camera as well as all kinds of changes and challenges they are going to face .



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06 The Last

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 90min

Director & Photographer: Yan Dazhong

Director & Photographer: Liu Zhuang


CONTENT

Palden is a 26-year- old shepherd from Nyanpo Yuzee in Qinghai province , who lives in traditional nomadic life with his wife . When most young Tibetan left their homeland for modern cities , he chose to stay in pastoral area with yaks , horses and his ginger cat . However , this traditional lifestyle that has been passed down for thousands of years is now facing a severe crisis . With glacier shrinking and grassland degrading every year , the collapse of local environment is likely to bring great changes to Palden' s life . He has to face the question : can he continue with his life in the pasture ?



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07 The Teen Kunfu Master

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 45 min

Director : Xie Binhui

Producer : Zhang Xinwei


CONTENT

Pan Hongshen, a teenager from Guangzhou, started learning Choy Li Fu Kung Fu from his grandfather Pan Guoman since he was three years old. In 2016, Pan Guoman passed away. Before his grandfather' s death, he passed the second generation of the master of the Hongsheng Ancestor' s Guangzhou Choy Li Fu Kung Fu Association to Pan Hongyi when the boy was 16.

Pan Hongyi not only has to improve his own performance of martial arts , but also needs to spend time on his textbooks and to help his father run the martial arts club so that the Choy Li Fu Kung Fu may be handed down from generation to generation . There are many applicants who intend to be his formal apprentices . He will look for and test a number of candidates . After a formal apprenticeship ceremony , he will take the first apprentice to Xinhui Guangdong to worship Chan Heung , the founder of Choy Li Fu Kung Fu .


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08 See You, China!

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 90 min

Co-author & Director &Editor : Mrs Sophie Bassaler

Co-author & Producer : Qi Li


CONTENT

As the most renowned photo agency in the world , Magnum is called < Eye of the World >.

 When the People' s Republic of China was founded on October 1st,1949, Magnum had only been established for less than two years , but Magnum' s relationship with China can be traced back 10 years earlier . As early as 1938, Robert Kappa , one of the founders of Magnum , went to Wuhan , Xuzhou , Zhengzhou , Guangzhou , and other places in China . In the course of eight months , he photographed historical moments of the Chinese Anti - Japanese War and the living conditions of the Chinese people at that time . Another founder of Magnum , Cartier Bresson , flew to Peking , Shanghai , Nanjing , and Hangzhou from the end of 1948 to the beginning of 1949. With his camera , he documented the transition of China' s old and new regimes .

 After the founding of the People' s Republic of China in 1949, generations of Magnum members constantly photographed China and witnessed China' s continuous evolutions .


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09 Heart Of Guqin In Suzhou

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 60 min

Director : Zhang Yang

Producer : Xue Zizhan


CONTENT

The May Fourth Movement in a century ago caused the wave of new culture to sweep across the country . Guqin was treated as a symbol of feudal art and criticized therefore . In August of the same year , a Guqin Forum was held in Suzhou Yiyuan , in which dozens of Guqin players from all over the world played Guqin in the turbulent time , and they hoped that at least classic and elegant music may soothe the people in the turbulent time . Yiyuan therefore became the modern Chinese Guqin center . In this context , we filmed some living Guqin artists in Suzhou , recorded their lifestyle and philosophy about Guqin , to rediscover the art of the Guqin that survives the times .



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10 The verse of our city

Type : Feature film/ short film series

Feature length : 120 min

Director : Xun Yu

Producer : Wang Xiaoshuai


CONTENT

Rap music is becoming more and more popular in China , and Gosh has become Chongqing's cultural business card and pride . The development of its musicians is a matter of great concern to music fans , because they represent the first batch of Chinese rap culture from underground to a strong new force of commercial trend culture . The film chooses to record the complex process of Chinese rap from overnight popularity to adaptation , witnessing the rising grass -roots trend culture , the new generation with independent consciousness , and the Chinese cultural soft power that is in line with the international standards .

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11 Without You, Echo

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 90 min

Director : Wang Yang

Producer : Xiao Yue


CONTENT

We trace back to the spaces and the details of Echo' s life at different atages in Taipei, Madrid, Laayoune, and the Canary Islands. We collect Echo's stories from the places in which she used to live. Also, Echo's family and friends retell the story of her growth. We re-comprehend her life story with the audiences viewing her as an individual without labels to discover the sense and the logic of a person.


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12 A journey back home

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 80 min

Director : Sun Yifan

Producer : Malgorzata Staronˊ


CONTENT

Liyenne, a 22-year-old Chinese adoptee, is standing at the crossroads of her life. The upcoming change brings her anxiety and insecurities yet something from her past keeps holding her back. Now, she's ready to face her demons and is determined to find out who brought her into this world.



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13 Super Cool Wins in the End

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 90 min

Director & Producer : Cheng Herng Shinn 


CONTENT

Korean pop, or K-pop, is quickly becoming a global sensation. We see this frenetic world through the eyes of a wide-eyed girl who auditions to become a star, an ageing female trainee who sees her window to debut as an idol collapsing and a tormented boy idol who simply misses mum.

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14 The 84,000 Possibilities of Our Family

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 90min

Director : Zhang Wenjuan

Producer : Xu Cheng


CONTENT

This is a story about a family of three members of three generations at three different life stages . The middle - aged folk singer , Mayi ( Ant ), wishes to release his third album before the age of 40, as his final fight for his career . His 12-year- old daughter , Yang Ruining , wants to follow in the footsteps of her father and work as a singer - songwriter - she is confident that she could become someone in the industry . Having experienced ups and downs , Mayi' s 60-year- old mother has suffered from the pains brought by her children' s life choices and decisions - she is looking for her inner peace . These three life paths are divided yet intertwined : each entails individuals ' self - reflection and their reconciliation with the world .



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15 Breath of the Plateau

Type : Feature film

Feature length : 90min

Director : Xiong Juan

Scientific Advisor : Zhu Xiaoyu


CONTENT

Tibetan traditional culture has great respect for al forms of life , so we chose a Tibetan family for the center of this story . As the 7-year- old girl Choetso forages for medicinal cordyceps fungus for her family , she meets the Buddhist monk Gele . Moved by the lovable animals she sees , Choetso decides to join Gele in assisting animals injured by human actions . The main thread of the story focuses on how animals survive the harsh natural conditions of Tibet , linked together by Choetso and Gele ' s efforts to save Tibetan gazelles , vultures and other highland animals , weaving a touching tale of coexistence between humans and animals .

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16 Hope Springs East

Type : TV program series

Feature length : Documentary ( 1×52 minutes );

                          short film of social media (10×2minutes );

                          VR version (1×2 minutes )

Director : Patrick Carr


CONTENT

Could it possibly be true that in serveral years , China has turned from an international environmental pariah to the world's greatest green hope ?

 Hope Springs East reveals the key new technologies , leading-edge concepts and mass roll-out of green solutions going on right now in China and being exported across the globe .

 What's changed is that China has gone global with these green technologies , leading to a paradigm shift that few saw coming .

A1x52' traditional doc ,10x1'-2' stories for sharing on social media , and 1x1-4' VR piece that feature game-changing technologies , awe-inspiring characters and breath-taking locations .

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17 Underwater China

Type : TV program series

Feature length : 52 *6

Director : Zhou Fang


CONTENT

« Underwater China » is China's first large - scale documentary series of natural ecological underwater , which will show the nature and humanity of China from a unique underwater perspective . The documentary explores the interdependence between human beings and nature by presenting underwater wonders and discovering stories about coastal nationalities in a narrative style. The documentary will take China's rich and diverse water resources , go deep into rivers , reservoirs , lakes , glaciers , caves and oceans to explore and present Chinese underwater landscapes , creatures , monuments and human stories , and show a China you have never seen !

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18 China' s Dream Fliers

Type : TV documentary Series

Feature length : 30 minutes ×10 episodes

Executive Producer : Pablo Salzman

Executive Producer : Paul Lewis


CONTENT

Strapped into the pilot seat of his two - seater airplane , an 18-year- old aviation student from China is in serious trouble . Flying over Canada in pitch blackness at 3,000 metres , Deng Ke ( Danco ) is struggling to control the plane . The nose is pitching up at a steep angle and the plane is experiencing a series of dangerous stalls as heavy turbulence tosses it around mercilessly . Danco knows all too well that every decision he makes in the cockpit is life and death .

 Danco is one of hundreds of students coming to Canada straight out of high school in China to fulfil a dream as old as humanity itself - the dream to soar into the skies and fly .

 But despite the danger and hardship , the passion to fly is strong . The rewards are huge .

 Canada is a popular destination for Chinese to come and learn to fly . They can practice their English , the international language of aviation and Canada offers extremes in weather and geography which is perfect for training .

“ China's Dream Fliers ” is a fascinating journey full of high stakes and jeopardy that explores how Chinese Gen Z grow and mature in their temporary homeland half a world away under the most adverse conditions .

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19 THE LEGENDS OF US

Type : Short film series

Feature length : 6 episodes, 30 minutes per episode

General director : Zhang Neixian

Chief producer : Wu Yan


CONTENT

Culture, is the set of collective subconscious that rooted in a nation or a country.As the Chinese economy has boomed for years, many Chinese people have lost themselves in this noisy world. They are eager to find their egos.The waken of traditional cultures is getting started since then.As a matter of fact, many traditions had already vanished in the history or survived in the lvory tower as a kind of culture decoration rather than practical customs. How could these traditions find their position in 21st century?In this documentary, we recorded how the culture missionaries preach traditional Chinese culture to the world, including traditional music and vocal, painting and calligraphy, etiquette, martial arts, traditional crafts, aesthetics and philosophy.We believe this documentary can help our audience to recognize the beauty of traditional Chinese culture and strength our nation's confidence at the same time.



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20 The Pursuit of Appiness

Type : Single short film

Feature length : 30 min/episode

Director : Wang Lingli

Photographer : Zeng Zilong


CONTENT

With the advent of the era of big data, our dependence on the Internet is growing. Young people have an increasingly greater usage and hold in esteem the social APPs for matchmaking based on the backstage big data. However, can the backstage big data really help us succeed in finding a true love?