BEIJING, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ On November 27th, 2020, Coffee Matters, a Chinese-English bilingual short animation film was jointly released by China Story Database and Fuxing Road Studio, and soon attracted extensive attention globally. It was broadcast on the China Screen at New York Times Square on Jan. 13, 2021, Beijing Time.
It tells a story about how a coffee bean travels across the seas to China, and eventually helps the once impoverished hinterland of S.W. China sYunnan province shake off poverty and achieve prosperity.
This touching story is from a short film titled Coffee Matters.
The 3.34-minute short film shows the cultural and economic interactions between China and the West brought by small coffee beans, and connects the overseas viewers to China s poverty alleviation campaign. This film went viral after being released on major media and social networking platforms in China and has achieved 400 million views globally so far.
By Katrina Nattress
Jan 13, 2021
Abbey Road Studios turns 90 this year, and to celebrate the legendary studio is subject of a documentary titled
If These Walls Could Sing.
Billed as the untold story of Abbey Road, the film marks the first time the studio has opened its doors to a feature-length doc and will be fittingly directed by
The Beatles recorded 190 of their 210 songs there and famously titled an album after the studio.)
“Some of my earliest memories as a young child come from time spent at Abbey Road,” Mary said in a
statement. “I’ve long wanted to tell the story of this historic place and I couldn’t be collaborating with a better team than John [Battsek, producer] and Mercury Studios to make this creative ambition a reality.”