10 Villager Filmmakers
Nong Ke, male, aged 59, is a farmer of Zhuang ethnicity from Guangxi Province. His short film is entitled A Welfare Council.
Zhang Huancai, male, aged 45, is from Shaanxi Province. His short film is entitled: A Nullified Election.
Zhou Cengjia, male, aged 42, is a farmer from Hu Nan. His short film is entitled Village Head Wu Aiguo.
Shao Yuzhen, female, aged 55, is a farmer from Beijing. Her film is entitled I Film My Village.
Ni Lianghui, male, aged 35, is from Hu Bei Province. He currently runs a barber shop in Guangdong Province. His film is entitled Returning Home for the Election.
Tshe Ring Sqrolma, female, aged 24, is an ethnic Tibetan living in Yunnan Province. Her film is entitled Spirit Mountain.
Jia Zhitan, male, aged 55, is an orange farmer from Hunan Province. His film is called The Quarry.
Fu Jiachong, male, aged 49, is a village communist party chairman in his home village in Henan Province. His film is called Our Village Committee.
Wang Wei, male, aged 28, is a farmer from Shandong. His film is entitled Allocation of Land.
Yi Chujian, male, aged 26, is a villager from Zhejiang Province. He currently films weddings for a living. His film is entitled Did You Go Back for the Election?
Synopsis:
A call for documentary film proposals was announced in September 2005. In mid-October, 10 best proposals were selected from among 40 proposals submitted by villagers across the nation. The selection of the successful candidates was primarily based on the quality of the proposal, i.e. the relevance of the proposed topic...