2017 FreshPitch

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01 Reflector

Format : Feature length

Length :  80 min

Director &Producer : Patrick Carr

Director : Florian Zinke


CONTENT

The story of modern China told by its most revered punk rock band , mirroring their own story from street kids in dive bars to celebrated heroes of the music scene playing to packed out stadia in China and the US .

 Reflector the Documentary mirrors the meteoric rise of China in the past 30 years , charting the course of the three members ' fame from begging mix tapes from foreign students in the early 90s, through countrywide and US tours on a shoestring and on to widespread recognition from the glitterati of China ' s most famous artists .

We go back with them to their parents ’ homes in Northern China ( punk rockers are still influenced by Confucius ), where one of the group ’ s father plays the bands ’ music to his martial arts students as they train . We live through broken relationships , stints in jail and the worrisome effects of Beijing ’ s pollution on their kids .

More than just the music , the band has seen massive transformations to China ' s social , economic and political landscape. Through them we can see how China ' s youth has come of age , grown middle - aged , and been replaced by a new generation completely unlike anything that has come before it .




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02 Go With the Flow

Format : Feature length

Length :  90 min

Producer : WANG Cong

Director : LI Hongquan


CONTENT

This film is about two professional players , Chris Reaves from Beijing Aoshen and Lee Benson from CBA who have to make difficult choices regarding their dignity , interests , family and the future while playing" wild ball" for big bonuses . Will they choose to fight against the temptation , or just go with the flow ?

" Wild ball " refers to a kind of amateur basketball game in China , with big bonuses , good skils and poor organization . It is the most aboriginal basketball scene in China .




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03 Post-00s

Format : Feature length

Length :  90 min

Director : YU Ming

Director : FAN Qipeng


CONTENT

Ryan, a heroic boy in the kindergarten yet conventionally unacceptable, lost himself for a while, but, at the moment and in his American football helmet, he became confident. At the age of 15, he fought for China in the World Championship, before studing in America to pursue his dream of " Super Bowl ". Rosie, treated as a little princess al her way up, was stricken in a lonely surroundings, just as she chose between homestay families in spite of her A - grade performance at school. The 15-year-old girl, though opposed by her mother, was determined to learn ballet. For a girl fond of ballet and a boy of football, they reemerge out of their past .




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04 Online Celebrity

Format : Feature length

Length :  90 min

Director : CHEN Song

Editor : GUO Jing


CONTENT

This story is about a post -95 girl , Lianlian , who is seeking a way out from her divided family in this fragmented age .17 years old Lianlian is an Internet celebrity , however , she ' s never taken seriously by the teachers , and almost fail the school.

Misfortunes never come alone , her parents were divorcing , the family was breaking . Her mom is a policewoman who have blind faith in cult , she was cheated by some monk and lost a lot of money . Her dad ran away from home with a cat . Lianlian chose to escape from her family and school , and tried to start an unknown journey .




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05 Born to Save You

Format : Feature length

Length :  60 min

Director : ZHANG Yang

Photographer : XUE Zizhan


CONTENT

Xu Weiwei is an animal protector. He is so devoted to his work that he has never taken a break for the last 7 years . He searches every single corner of the city for stray dogs and cats every day . People think that is not his responsibility , but he considers this as his destiny . Now as his son is growing up , his wife wants him to pay more attention on his family , especially on his son. However , he is still busy with taking care of those stray animals . In response to the blame of his wife , he fobs her off with absurd reason --“ You owed me in previous existence . I owed those animals . We all came to this world to pay back .”




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06 Not My City

Format : Feature length

Length :  85 min

Director : LI Jialun


CONTENT

An old couple came to Chengdu from the countryside to make a living by doing street cleaning work and picking up trash for sell . A sudden road accident hit the wife seriously when she was in the work of sweeping . The unexpected trouble breaks the old couple ’ s city dream and push them into a complex city routines which they can not deal with .

After compensation lawsuit , they only get about ten thousands of dollars . Dragging disabled body and broken heart , the old couple finally leaves the city , returns their countryside hometown and heal themselves lonely .




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07 Above the Muztagata

Format : Feature length

Length :  90 min

Producer : ZHANG Zhi


CONTENT

When he was about to be 18 years old , his father planned to climb a snow- capped mountain with him -- as a special rite of passage . He actively exercised and expecting to meet his father again for he had not seen his father for a long time . However , he witnessed the subtle relationship between his father and his father ’ s female business partner when climbing the mountain . He intended to fulfill his father ’ s wish , but he couldn' t control his disappointment and sadness. The mountaineering party had to give up their summit attempt because of bad weather , he learns to accept life's helplessness as an adult .




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08 As Tough As My Father

Format : Feature length

Length :  90 min

Director : WU Jingjing

Producer : ZHENG Wei


CONTENT

Wu shidong is a middleman specialized in delivering cement - brick building materials to construction site . Every time when the New Year is coming , he has to shuttle between debtors and creditors in different building sites . As for the changes of Chinese economic situation , he is always trapped into a miserable state at the end of year . He , as a middleman , stands in an awkward position facing the indebted bosses and the workers who claim for their wages . In the terrible predicament of unavailable engineering funds , unpaid labor ’ s wages and aged ill father , Wu Shidong , in his middle age , want to maintain a father ’ s dignity in front of his daughter who needs more money for school. However, his embarrassing plight is totally exposed in his daughter' s shot and his image is changing constantly in the daughter ' s mind . This film demonstrates the living conditions and crisis of those crowds of engineering material suppliers under this circumstance as well as the relationships between their families and them with heavy pressure .




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09 Baseball Boys

Format : Feature length

Length :  60 min

Director : OU Daming

Photographer : LIU Qianjun


CONTENT

The Western China MLB Junior Play Ball will be held in Xi'an in July 2017.20-year- old Wu Jintai will lead a baseball team of a primary school in Qinghai Province to this competition . With the day approaching , the team is not yet formed . Wu has to ask help from his former coach Tian Changji .

 Tian Changji is from South Korea . He spent 10 years in Hainan , an autonomous prefecture , building up three primary school baseball teams , a middle school team and a high school team . However , he is too tired to go on and prepared to leave Qinghai back to Korea .




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10 The Longest One Second

Format : Feature length

Length :  90 min

Producer : ZHANG Zijun

Director : LUO Guanhong


CONTENT

Their team is the oldest in Chinese sports history , and their average age is 88 years. Some of them want to keep on dreaming of flying into the sky, some of them want to help their wife, who is going to die , complete a wish , some of them want to win honour for their country , while some of them want to see the rest of the world in their lifetimes . The six old men keep up their'  young blood ’with‘ slow sportsmanship ','the Grandpa Team ’is a group of old partners in a race against time .

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11 The Dream Of Super Bridge

Format : Feature length

Length :  60 min, 90 min

Director : WANG Yang

Producer : ZHAO Jia


CONTENT

At the construction site of a super bridge in Wuhan , workers are working under huge pressure . They only have a few days to gather with their family every year .

Ma Wenbing is from a vilage in Guizhou. After decades of striving , he finally made it to an engineer from a regular worker.

This is a story about a workaholic . He ' s lost the balance between work and family. He fails to be a good husband and a responsible father, struggling in stress from work and anxiety of not being able to live his dreams every day.

The film focuses on the conflicts brought by fast development of society , and how people are going to cope with their spiritual life in the context of a swiftly changing times .


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12 The Road of Dance

Format : Feature length

Length :  100 min

Producer : LILITH

Director : FanFan


CONTENT

This is a source - tracing trip started from the belly dance . As the journey unfolds , we come to 7 distinct dancers in the world , into a magical journey of exploration , traveling through different stages and dimensions of life . This film is composed of 7 dancing stories , and the 8th is the producer Lilith’s reflections during the searching of the true meaning of dancing , which is ignited by the dance and hidden in other 7 stories . At the same time , as the link between the stories , it forms a kind of cycle , and an entirety of the film .


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13 The Roots

Format : Feature length

Length :  90 min

Director : CHEN Mingwang


CONTENT

On December 16, 2014, My wife which was seven months pregnant and I stay a Chinese family in Los Angeles, and we share the apartment with pregnant women from China for many reasons: avoiding family planning, hiding haze, avoiding exam-oriented education.

How to choose a hospital? How to choose a doctor? How to adapt to local life?We will show the personally experience of having two children born in the US in three years.


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14 Success Takes Sacrifice

Format : Feature length

Length :  60~90 min

Producer : ZHOU Fangsheng

Director : LI Juan


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In the context of economic globalization, a Chinese enterprise with the spirit of industry and technological innovation, made its way to the world in the new economy, and grew up to be a survival in the future.

Amidst this roaring age, an unknown private enterprise Chenguang Biotech Group, although located in the remote county of Hebei province, started from about 10 employees to a listed multinational enterprise with 120 patents, 13 subsidiaries and annual sales of over 1 billion; from a best annual output of 3 to 4 tons to over 3,000 tons today, the world's largest; from a single product to four categories with over 80 varieties. It is now a leading company in global natural pigment industry and an international supplier of natural plant extract.

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15 Human China

Format : Landmark TV Documentary Series shot in 4K with a cinematic release special

Length :  60 min ×5 episodes

Director : Dale Templar

Producer : Owen Gay


CONTENT

Human China will show the people of China in startling landscapes, remote villages and bustling cities, people who enjoy complex relationships with their environment and with each other. Linking and uniting them all however, and making them one nation is shared love of China.

Each episode takes a different environment as its backdrop and focuses on key stages in the journey of human life from birth to old age. The five episodes will cover: The Mountains & Forests;The Deserts; The Rice Lands; People of the Water and Cities.HUMAN CHINA combines the very best in landmark film making with the intimacy of character-driven documentary.


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16 This is Life

Format : TV series

Length :  75 min × 12 episodes

Director : CHEN Weijun 


CONTENT

The stories in the documentary TV series This Is Life mainly happen in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University. By showing the stories of dozens of pregnant mothers and their families bringing new lives to the world through the fresh, lively and direct camera language, we expect to show the audience of the shock of witnessing death and the excitement of welcoming life.

Our vision not only stays inside the hospital, but by following the characters it also extends into the cities and countrysides outside. The camera vividly presents how every case of birth of new lives would affect every individual, his family and the complicated Chinese society, and also, how they can reflect the way of numerous living beings feel the joy and pain of the mortal world.

Through the huge amount of stories and the most dramatic plot and starting from the compassionate perspective, This Is Life is intended to represent the most authentic, most lively, most distressing and the most warmhearted portrait of the Chinese social environment.

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17 Voice of the Earth

Format : TV Program Series

Length :  350 min (7 episodes )

Director : CHENG Gong

Director : GUO An


CONTENT

The documentary consists of seven episodes, i.e. origin, reproduction, courtship, labor, birth and death, implying the cycle of life and implicating the old philosophy of Chinese nation about human origin -- "primal chaos begets One (nothingness; or reason of being), One begets Two (yin and yang), Two begets Three (Heaven, Earth and Man; or yin, yang and breath qi), Three begets all things." The folk song themes include the creation of the word, weddings and funerals, and living and death. At the end, the Legend of Darkness closes the cycle with the Song of Resurrection. These folk songs have been passed down ceaselessly with the copied genes of “you, he and l"

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18 Yellow, Orange, Blue

Format : Short video series

Length :  8 min/episode, 3~5episodes make one series.

Director : LIU Xiaoran

Co-director : WU Qi


CONTENT

China's economy has witnessed the emergence of countless of new enterprises and services, which is the outcome of capital waves, and their rapid development has attracted wide attention. The documentary will record 3-5 enterprises and industies, including shared bicycles, shared portable chargers, apartment renting, and live streaming platform, etc. They are seen as a transform of people's lifetyle and a reform of China's economy.

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19 Walk · Dunhuang

Format : VR

Length :  15 min

Art Director : FENG Wen

Producer : LI Xiang


CONTENT

Walk Dunhuang established a Dunhuang Cave model by means of laser scanning, and the game engine drive, so that users can walk through the virtual cave space to observe the details inside, and be able to trigger a pre-set narration and interactive plot, so as to have an in-depth experience of the profound cultural and natural heritage.

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20 Panda Go Home

Format : VR Documentary

Length :  20 min

Director : Qin Leiyu

Producer : Zhao Chuanda


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In panda' s home, Sichuan, China, conservation and breeding institutions have tried a program-the plan for panda's returning to the wild. The program focuses on letting pandas leave zoos and conservation and breeding base through specific training system, and finally live in nature.

The film will use VR technology to deeply follow the plan for panda's returning to the wild, track down the whole path of pandas' returning to the wild, rethink the relationship between human, panda and nature in the perspective of sustainable development.