2018 Freshpitch Gold Prize
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A group of Uyghur children fall behind in their elementary school. They eventually become the school's "star" pupils though they don't do homework ,sleep during class, and are disruptive. The children still like going to school despite their disinterest in classes—instead they play football as it offers them the scarce joy and freedom, and alleviates academic frustration.
2018 Freshpitch Silver Prize
CONTENT
The Invisible Shores starts from the sweeping voyage of Guo Chuan, the first Chinese man to take on a solo, non-stop circumnavigation. It is a 130 days of pounding against the wind the waves on a 40-feet boat in the 21,000 miles seaway, and he made it. When fame comes knocking and everyone thinks that Guo Chuan, 49 already, should settle down to enjoy the glory and spend family time with his newborn baby, Guo Lunbu, named after Columbus, the father was considering to set forth another voyage to cross the arctic sea, solo. Three years later in 2016, after conquering the arctic route as another human record, Guo prepared to cross the pacific between San Francisco and Shanghai, a journey that seems less adventurous. On Oct 25,2016, he lost trace 800 knots to the south of Hawaii and has not been found since.
In the past 5 years, The Invisible Shore followed Guo's career development and family life, trying to understand the weight of a man's vision. Guo is an alien to his time, not to barter anything for the dreams to chase. He may be a tragedy to his family, but a legend to call on everyone of us, that how much we are ready to pay for what we are.
2018 Freshpitch Silver Prize/Most Popular Pitch
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The story of the six Chinese survivors of the Titanic disaster was written out of history. In The Six: Titanic's Chinese Survivors, we learn how these remarkable men beat the odds to make it off the ship alive, only to experience expulsion from the US within 24 hours of their arrival. We track down their descendants for the first time and trace their extraordinary journey from Southern China to find out how they became silent witnesses to one of the twentieth century's most infamous and intriguing events.
2018 Freshpitch Bronze Prize
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In the 21st century, everyone says that marriage should be built on the basis of equal and free development of independent individuals.The viewpoints of mate selection, fertility, family, sexuality, and marriage and divorce have all clearly advanced. My grandmother's 80-year-old divorce triggered my thinking and made me more curious about my grandmother's story. Through interview, I also learned about my grandfather for the first time. Divorce was a disgraceful thing in their time, but now what he wants most is to be free in mind.
2018 Freshpitch Bronze Prize
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This documentary mainly tells a serial of stories caused by public administrative conflicts between the urban management officers and a fruit peddler, Tiancheng Wang, who takes advantage of public streets while doing business.After a long period of resistance and struggle, officers finally achieve Wang's understanding and gratitude. However, the cost of administration is huge, and there are hundreds of peddlers like Wang needed to be guided and rearranged.Moreover, how to settle the issue about street peddlers once for all, and how to unify the urban dreams of officers and peddlers at some extent? These are only the tips of icebergs of those problems coming to the Urban Management Department continuously.
2018 Freshpitch Bronze Prize
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This film features in the 2018 Mount Everest Climbing mountaineer Xia Boyu who has injuries in both legs. It also has clips from the 1975 documentary about Chinese Mountaineering Team, which re-shows the Xia' s experience of 244 meters away from the summit of Mount Everest. However on the way back, he suffered the injuries in his legs out of the coldness. For the past 43 years, he never forgot his dream and prepared both physically and technically for climbing once again. We want to show his strong will and perseverance.
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