Chinese Villagers’ DV Documentaries On Village-Level Democracy – Special Screening and Q&A with Filmmakers Wu Wenguang, Jian Yi, and Wang Wei

Chinese Villagers' DV Documentaries On Village-Level Democracy -- Special Screening and Q&A with Filmmakers Wu Wenguang, Jian Yi, and Wang Wei

Monday, March 27, 2006 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Auditorium (Room 101), Henry R. Luce Hall See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 6511

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to present a special screening of “Chinese Villagers’ DV Documentaries on Village-Level Democracy.” The screening will be followed by the special presentation of Seen and Heard, a 55-minute documentary film that tells the story of how these ten Chinese villagers became story tellers in this unprecedented DV project. The two screenings will then be followed by a question and answer session with filmmakers WU Wenguang, JIAN Yi, and WANG Wei. Please note that the question and answer session will be in both Chinese and English with translation provided. Length of the films: 95 minutes and 55 minutes Language: Chinese (with English and Chinese subtitles) Produced in December 2005 and January 2006 Curator: WU Wenguang, documentary filmmaker, Visual Consultant for the EU-China Training Programme on Village Governance Coordinator: JIAN Yi, filmmaker, photographer, Public Communications Expert with the EU-China Training Programme on Village Governance The Visual Documentary Project on China’s Village-Level Democracy was launched in September 2005 by the EU-China Training Programme on Village Governance. This video represents one aspect of this important project. It is a collection of ten short documentary films, each ten minutes in length. They are ten films made by ten amateur villager filmmakers (ranging in age from 24 to 59) selected from around China who are eager to discover their home villages through the DV lens and to tell stories and be heard, for the first time in their lives. It is the first time that Chinese villagers took up a DV camera to shoot a documentary of their own on the changing rural public lives and the changing countryside dynamics in their home villages within the developing democratic system known as “village self-governance.” For the first time, public and political lives of Chinese villages are captured through the lens of the people who live there.

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China, Hong Kong, Taiwan