Jian Yi
Bio: Jian Yi was born in 1975, a native of JiAn in southeastern China’s Jiangxi province, Jian Yi is a filmmaker and a photographer. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA, and of the Beijing Broadcasting Institute (BBI). Yi started his first job when he got a lecturing position
at BBI in ‘99. In ’03, Yi joined the EU-China Training Program on Village Governance as a communication specialist, filmmaker and photographer. In ’05 he co-founded the China Villagers’ Documentary Project together with filmmaker Wu Wenguang. Jian Yi started his China Dreams documentary series in 2005. Super, Girls! is the first independently-produced documentary Jian Yi has completed, and is the nation’s first HDV documentary film on the Super Girl Singing Contest.
Synopsis:
Voices from China’s 700,000 villages have always been faint. When ten of those 900 million Chinese villagers receive video cameras and film their villages, those voices grow louder. This film follows the ten participants of a groundbreaking video project as they receive their video cameras, learn to use them, and then...