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There couldn’t have been a more ironic opening shot. The first sequence of An Engineered Dream, which won the best non-feature film at the recently announced 67th National Awards, shows a prominent spiritual guru addressing a gathering of over a lakh students at a huge ground in Kota, Rajasthan. The kids talk of loneliness and stress while the guru stresses studies and success. The large-scale event sponsored by various coaching institutes stands testimony to the aspirations of parents and their ‘engineered dreams’ for their children. The irony isn’t lost on the viewer as Hemant Gaba, the producer and director of the documentary, takes us through the lives of four teenagers, pursuing their dreams of cracking the engineering entrance exam in a city synonymous with coaching centres.
Jenny Shi’s (Medill M.S. ’17) film on the disappearance of Yingying Zhang, a Chinese international student at the University of Illinois, gained critical acclaim after a year-long festival run.
While the documentary’s filming wrapped before the pandemic, COVID-19 shutdowns affected its release and reception. Diane Quon, a producer of the film, said the year’s most exciting moment came when she heard the film would show at the highly esteemed South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW). Although the March-scheduled festival was canceled, SXSW honored Shi with the special jury recognition for breakthrough voice.
Before the film would show to any festival audiences, though, Shi wanted Zhang’s family to watch it first. Shi eventually asked some of her friends in China to travel to Zhang’s parents hometown and show them the film on a laptop. Shi and Shilin Sun, the film’s co-producer and cinematographer, were present through a video call. Shi said she was initially nervous tha
Streaming sites show more documentaries
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Streaming sites have become the main platform for producing and broadcasting documentaries in China, luring an increasing number of young viewers, according to a recent report.
The report on the development of Chinese documentaries in 2020 was released by the National Radio and Television Administration at the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, which ran from Dec 14 to 17.
The report shows that more players have entered documentary production and the genre has become prominent on streaming sites.
On Bilibili, for example, a total of over 3,500 documentaries are available to stream, while nearly 100 of these are original productions, according to Zhang Shengyan, general manager of the site s copyright cooperation center.
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