Support Documentaries, the Newly Emerging Force

No funding, no technological support, no broadcast platform, and no specific medium of communication? The only criterion for selection is simply a good idea. DocuChina Filmmaker Plan will provide support, giving access to a broader stage.
 

As the main part of the 15th Shanghai TV Festival, the final of the 3rd "DocuChina Filmmaker Plan" will be held through this international platform from 8th, June to 11th, June 2009, including two-day master training and one-and-a-half-day international proposal bidding along with an award ceremony. The 250 proposals the organizing committee has received are rich in subject, extensive in perspective, and attentive to folkways and folk customs. All these documentary proposals also attach great importance to social reality, arts ecology and political & economic phenomena.  
 

At present, 15 nominees have just been selected, and they are The Story of Milk: culture and gene, The Lake, The Post Couple, A Hard Dream, The Community, The psychologist, The Three Gorges, The different Competition, The accident is always happened, Business Establishment, The Er Ma people, Internet-addicted, A colorful Life, Friends, The Industry chain. On 6th June, these 15 nominees will have the opportunity to present to the whole world their stories of great originality in fierce competition. The juries, made up of internationally recognizable documentary specialists and directors, will announce the 5 winners of Excellent Proposal Award as well as 1 Media Award winner at the Award Ceremony to be held on 11th June.     
 

The current filmmaker plan has invited distinguished guests and juries, among whom there are the internationally famous director Jia Zhangke whose works 24 City and Still Life have won many international awards, the well-known screenwriter Ning Caishen for his My Own Swordsman, and the Shanghai comedian Zhou Libo reputed for his Shanghai-style stand-up Chat about the Past Thirty Years. Other guests and juries are also of great prestige like director Peng Xiaolian, Zhou Bin and host Wan Feng.      
 

As the non-profit platform for newly emerging Chinese documentary makers, "DocuChina Filmmaker Plan" constantly bears the hope of these documentary lovers. Some outstanding items that distinguished themselves at the 2nd “DocuChina Filmmaker Plan” have recently been produced one by one. The growth of these young and promising directors from the "Filmmaker Plan" has witnessed how a script could be finally turned into a documentary. From 7th June on, three documentaries will be successively on documentary channel "Documentary Editorial Office". These documentaries are the Lost Village in Desert, telling a story about the conflict and struggle between humans and nature, Cock Fighting, a reflection of the fighting between people through the fighting between cocks, and Pregnancy, a story about how pregnancy could change the destiny of a woman and a family as a whole.

 

by Feng Yan