2016 FreshPitch

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01 Daughter of Shanghai

Format : Feature-length

Length :  90 mins

Director /Producer: Miao CHEN


CONTENT

Who is Tsai Chin? Was she a "sexy bomb" found in China Town to perform the "The World of Suzie Wong"? Who is her famous father? Was her testament revealed at the age of 40? How many husbands does she have? Did she really turn from a rich British woman into a homeless American? Did she realize her "Hollywood dream" when she was 60 years old?

Three springs in Tsai Chin's life created the tension of this drama. During her first spring she starred in the drama of "The World of Suzie Wong" in England which became the symbol of Sturm und Drang during the 1960s. During her second spring with the American film "The Joy Luck Club" she acted in a film that became a masterpiece which tells the story about an overseas Chinese woman. Back to China, she revealed her third spring when she was 75 years old. She used her mother tongue to perform in the movie of "Dream of Red Mansions". She connected three continents, and she conquered audiences at various times.




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02 Five Generations

Format : Feature-length

Length :  90 mins

Director : Bo JIAO

Executive Director : Lin YUE


CONTENT

Five generations of a rural family in Huangge Village of Yibin City live at the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.The 102-year-old great-great-grandpa Mr.Chen maintains the entire family, while his adopted son died at 88 years old after a sudden illness. The eldest grandpa, 52-year-old Mr. Zheng, is a cultural official who ignores his family since he wants to pursue personal performance in work. The 3rd grandma, 45-year-old Ms.Zheng, is the richest in her family but always quarrels with her husband. The 4th grandma, Ms.Zheng, stays in the village for her family; she abandoned her casino business and took the opportunity to work outside to take care of her son and the farm work. Her granddaughter-in-law, Ms.Lin, was born in the 1980s. Ms Lin had run away to the city to meet her own "city dream" after experiencing frequent domestic violence from her husband.




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03 Escaping the Temple

Format : Feature-length

Length :  70 mins

Director/ Producer : Patrick Carr

Director/ Dop: Florian Zinke


CONTENT

Choreographer Zhao Liang is on a quest to find meaning in a fast-paced modern China where to stop to think means falling behind in the rat-race. Faced with potentially ruinous debts, Zhao Liang is tempted by the call of life as a Buddhist monk.

Lead male Qiu Qiu is burdened by the fame of his grandfather, a titan of the Peking Opera who he feels he can never live up to. Qiu Qiu faces a choice of carrying on along the path his ancestors have laid for him or rebelling and forging a completely new one.Lead female Li Nan is a reluctant mother and wife. Can she find artistic room to breathe without breaking up her family?

We take the audience on a search for meaning in modern China, guided by three complex, joyful and charismatic dancers each trying to find their way.



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04 A Noodle Player in New York

Format : Feature-length

Length :  90 mins

Director : Xiaoran LIU


CONTENT

As an unknown actor in Mainland China, people have three initial images of Peter Song, as a fat man, a cook and as an actor.

A few years ago, his parents wanted him to learn to become an actor when the three of them immigrated from Northeast China to New York. Because he couldn't speak English, he asked the owner of an underground noodle restaurant to employ him as a helper. 4 years later, Peter Song had become the owner of three noodle restaurants in New York and Manhattan. He can own sit in the first row of a first-class cabin, wearing a Burberry wind coat and delicate black-frame glasses. His life has been totally changed.




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05 Dear My Genius

Format : Feature-length,TV Documentary Series

Length :  52 mins or 70 mins

Director : Yoon-ju,Koo

Producer : Hyun-Ah,Kang


CONTENT

When I returned home after my college, I could see my little sister is having extremely busy study life. My 8-year-old little sister was living my past, the homemade child genius. The title of genius hasn't any good influence to my life but why my little sister wants to grasp it again? Can she be happy with it?




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06 Singing in the Wilderness

Format : Feature-length

Length :  70 mins

Director : Dongnan CHEN


CONTENT

Liping, Dongsheng and Yaqiong were members of a choir of the Miao nationality in a village in Yunnan Province, which was located in an isolated mountain area. A western missionary once came here one hundred years ago to teach singing technique. Villagers worked in loess in daytime and worshipped the God with songs at night. Yaqiong was the leading singer. Dongsheng wanted to be a missionary. Liping was the prettiest girl in the village. The choir was found by local government accidentally, which was called “a living fossil of baroque music". Three protagonists saw different things in the external world and walked on different paths of life.




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07 Home Sweet Home

Format : Featur-length

Length :  60 mins

Director : Bo HU


CONTENT

 Wang Ruiju, an educated girl came to the village from city 50 years ago and knew Yang Fenglin who was stationed at an island and went home to visit his family here. They finally became a couple. Building up from nothing, they lived a busy and happy life.

Unexpectedly, the village sank since it was close to the coal mine. The environment was damaged and their life became poor again. When Yang Fenglin was hurt by collapsed henhouse, life in the subsidence area began to be changed. But the result was between tears and laughter.




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08 Peony Flowers

Format : Feature-length

Length :  90 mins

Director : Tao GU

Director : Xue GU


CONTENT

The story takes place in Urumgi, Xinjiang, inhabitation place of minorities. The main actor, Yili, is a Uyghur and Russian mixed blood boy. He is an assistant police, but he is also a gay boy with earrings who dares to holding his boyfriend's hand while walking in the street spontaneously with his police uniforms on.

Homosexuality in China, that is, not been supported, but also not been obviously opposed. However, this is absolutely not allowed for the minority Muslims in China.

Yili and Tian Yuan, the boss of "Love Bar” are good friends. Tian Yuan has a boyfriend with 20-year relations. Their homosexual love is regarded as myth in LGBT groups. Mi Xue who performs in the Love Bar is hui ethnic minority. Last year Mi Xue made an surgery in Thailand, afterwards the gender of his ID card has converted from Man to Woman. Recent Xiao Wu becomes the regular customer in Love Bar. He is getting more and more clear of his homosexual identity but he also understands that in the end he will have to go home, get married with a women then have children, and so on.




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09 Wild Rush

Format :Feature-length

Length :  90-120 mins

Director : Xiaofei YANG


CONTENT

The top west side of Alashan Desert in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region holds a cross-country auto racing competition named "Martial Arts Gathering". Three protagonists, the first one with his artificial name as "Elegant"; the second, Mr.Yuan Guojie, also called as "Car-Terminator" and the third, Mandula, met in the extreme sports arena. They participated in the T3 session of the 120 km racing challenge, in the end their experience was full of collision of valuable human natures.

Auto racers experience death, despair, joy and passion. During the competition and cooperation, they showed their strong and fragile human nature. After tempering they exceed themselves. They move forward, fearless. They will go further. They will take more adventurous route.




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10 Steel Rose !

Format : Feature-length

Length :  75 mins

Producer : Hongyan Liu

Director : Yang Yang


CONTENT

The film shot the path of Ms. Gao Hong, Chief Coach of Chinese Women's National Football Team U17 who lead the team to participate in the World Cup. It tells the stories of how people in the ancient country make breakthrough, change and stick to themselves.

Gao Hong used to be the star goalkeeper during the most glorious period in Chinese Women's National Football Team. After retirement, she went oversea to learn sports training and management. After experienced physical pain and endured loneliness, she did not change her mind: to re-create the glory of the Chinese Women's Football. Finally when the opportunity came, she gave up her Canadian green card and returned to her motherland.




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11 Jun and his children

Format : Feature-length

Length :  90 mins

Director : Dake CHEN

Producer : Jianning ZHANG


CONTENT

Disabled singer Jun is facing difficulties with his new established disabled school . Singing as his only income could not solve the problems such as maintenance fee , lack of infrastructures and teachers . One day by coincidence , he met with few children with celebral palsy in LianYunGang , China . Seeing them having difficulties in lives , Jun decided to bring them back to his school . This decision has not only increases the burden for his school but he also faces the problems of communication with their parents , their existence school and the government department . With the unforeseeable future , Jun is hesitating about this decision .

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12 Arks of Confucius

Format :Feature-length, TV Documentary Series 

Length :  90 mins / 4 episodes /55 mins

Director : Sean WANG

Producer : Jia ZHAO


CONTENT

Nearly two decades ago illegal Chinese immigrants came to Greece along the similar route as the current refugees . In the meanwhile Greece has become their second home . Led by Ms Chen , a kind of' big - sis' type , the Chinese organize a volunteer team to help refugees - for the first time in European history , the Chinese go out of their comfort zone Chinatown to defend the country they love , in their Chinese ways . Will their actions help to build up a new symbiosis between Greek , Chinese and the new - comers on the Greek earth ?




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13 Moving To Australia

Format : TV Documentary Series/Reality Show

Length :  6 episodes / 30 mins

Producer : Michael Fardell


CONTENT

Thousands of Chinese families move to Australia every year , their migration can difficult and painful , or brings excitement and new opportunities .

Each of six half - hour episodes will see the families passing new milestones as they strive to settle in Australia . Their children will start school , how will they be welcomed ? Adapting to the food , weather and lifestyle will be hard but open new worlds and experiences. How hard is it to find a new job , as a young person , or as a mother ?

We will follow real Chinese families , who are Moving to Australia in the footsteps of thousands of have gone before , confronting hardship and finding great happiness .




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14 The Last Wild Rives

Format : TV Documentary Series

Length :  6 episodes/ 60 mins

Director : Sean WANG


CONTENT

Our epic - and fresh -- series in 4K navigates six of the last, free - flowing rivers in some of the most unusual parts of our planet. We' Il witness their priceless resources, get up - close and personal with their rare , native wildlife and local residents, and discover how they changed human history. Everywhere and anywhere, free - flowing rivers have become so rare that they might be classified as endangered species if they were considered living beings rather than merely vital support systems for life . Beginning at the source of each unique , wild river , our expert teams travel the length , capturing the importance and impact on people and animals through stunning visuals and superb storytelling . We' Il film an immersive experience in full VR at a critical point along their path .




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15 Journey East with Archie Kao

Format : TV Documentary Series

Length :  22 min /episode, 10-20 episodes/season

Host/ Producer : Archie KAO

Director : Morrow Pettigerw


CONTENT

Chinese - American host Archie Kao takes international audiences on a journey through China' s vibrant traditional and contemporary arts scene as he rediscovers his cultural heritage. Every episode will feature a specific neighborhood in China, its vibrant contemporary and traditional arts & culture scene , and the people responsible for not only preserving the area' s heritage, but keeping it alive in new and exciting ways.

As an international actor and recent transplant to Beijing by way of Los Angeles, Archie Kao provides insight and commentary along the way, interviewing locals and experiencing the culture firsthand.




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16 Madame Ching

Format : Docu, Drama, Cinemagraph

Length :  15 mins

Director : Morgan Ommer

Writer : Barbara Tran


CONTENT

The Widow Ching was a prostitute in Canton before being kidnapped by a powerful pirate, captain Zheng, she married him in exchange for half of his property. He died. Ching Shih took over and became the leader of the largest brotherhood of pirates in history; A precursor of feminism, she established a strict code of piracy respecting women. A military strategist she defied the Emperor and his Portuguese and British allies, then defeated them in battle. Twice. Ching Shih ruled over thousand' s of pirates, robbers, sinners and a network of spies at court; Finally, rich, old and wanting to retire, Madame Ching was forgiven. Ennobled by imperial decree she spent her old days caring for her grandchild and all her nights running a gambling house.




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17 Beijing Night

Format : Online short video series

Length :  12 episodes/5 mins

Chief Director : Fei DENG

Producer : Hao ZHANG


CONTENT

" Nights in Beijing" told the stories of 12 people who lived in Beijing. Like other ordinary people, they travelled in the city, lonely wandering, confused, numb, losing themselves in this city in daytime. When noise in daytime disappeared, they proved their wonderful existence in different ways. When night fell , they discharged their ordianry appearance. Someone obtained bright starry sky with scientific algorithm; someone climbed on and explore a highrise building; someone was cooking Japanese cuisine in the kitchen; someone kept waiting for his love in a rock noodle restaurant; someone accompanied the journey of strangers with warm voice. In Beijing, 24 o' clock was no longer a call to go sleeping. Those who slept early would miss so many wonderful things.

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18 Encounter

Format : Online short video series /VR project

Length :  10 episodes /6 mins

Director : Qi ZHAO

Director of Photography : Shaoguang SUN


CONTENT

Encounter wil select materials from scenes worldwide and adopt 360° panoramic shots , in which every episode will tell an extraordinary story of a character to widen the knowledge of the audience towards life and to stimulate their desire to explore the world .



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19 The Real Planet of the Apes

Format : CGI documentary project

Length :  90 mins

Director &Producer : Dale Templar

Producer : Owen Gay (One Tribe TV)


CONTENT

The cataclysmic event that wiped out the dinosaurs happened some 64 million years earlier . Now another group of animals rules supreme . This is a planet of the apes , fifty different species. One of them is the largest ape that ever lived. One of them is about to change everything.

Guangxi China was once home to the Gigantopithecus blacki , the largest ape ever to walk the planet , but scientists are only now unravelling its remarkable story. The Real Planet of the Apes is a drama - documentary, combining CGI and the latest research from some of China' s leading paleo - archaeologists to chart the rise of the super ape and its fall at the hands of another ape that is cleverer , more violent and deadly. It is an era when man is about to take the most decisive step in the jouney to dominance. The battle for the planet of the apes begins here .




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20 Rebirth : Site of Palmyra

Format : VR Project

Length :  8 mins

Director : Leiyu QIN

Producer : Nagano Sayuki


CONTENT

The documentary of " Border Line ” is a series with four episodes ." Rebirth : Site of Palmyra " is the second episode of the series, focusing on disaster affected ancient city of Pamela in Syria. In 2015, the ancient city of Pamela was controlled and destroyed by ISIS . As a result , more than 460 civilians were killed by ISIS . The world - famous archaeologist Khaled Asaad , who spent more than 50 years in archaeological excavations , was beheaded by ISIS with his remains hanging from one of the pillars of the ancient buildings . Mr . Abdullatif, a Syrian refugee student who graduated from Tsinghua Universty in China together with his classmates who study architecture in Syria , decided to continue Assad'  s protests . We will make a stand against ISIS with the achievements of world civilization in China , in Syria and in Pamela , and we will adopt VR and CG technology to rebuild the ancient city of Pamela . The documentary will use VR and CG technology to recall some stories happened from the prosperity era of the ancient city to the chaos caused by ISIS in Syria , from the stories of archaeologist Khaled Asaad to the silent counterattacks from Syria's conscience architecture designer .