"Digital News, Social Change & Globalization" Conference
Screening
| Title | The Village of Ten Acres |
| Language | Mandarin, Shannxi dialect, with English subtitles |
| Length | 100 minutes |
| Director | Chuan Bo-shun |
| Co-director | Chow Keung |
| Executive Producer | May Ng, Chan Bo-shun |
| Production | Docu Production Co. |
| First showing | April 2001, the 25th Hong Kong International Film Festival |
| * | The director and excutive producer, Chan Bo-shun will introduce the piece and take questions after its showing. |
| Synopsis | In our film industry where documentary is an absent genre and patience a forgotten language, The Village of Ten Acres is a true treasure. For over a year, a film crew stayed in a remote village in southern China, rediscovering the daily lives of villagers-turned workers. Why us? The villagers being filmed asked the film crew. We are building a new house for the Lunar New Year. Come over and film us tearing down the old house. Eventually the film crew helped build the new house. This is a documentary about the real faces of the unimportant people who have made China more important than ever before. They have rebuilt the economy of a nation and have kept it growing on the fast track. |