By Yuling Chen, iChongqing News,

Four short films produced during the Looking China Youth Film Project in Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality won awards at the 2019 Vancouver Chinese Film Festival (VCFF), which ran from August 11 to 16, 2019. Twenty-two films from the Looking China Program produced in Chongqing this year and last year were all shortlisted for VCFF.

Group photo at the 2019 Vancouver Chinese Film Festival (Photo from Southwest University)

Awarded films and winners

To Human won the Best Experimental Short Films of Golden Boat Award and Platform No.3 the Honourable Mention of Golden Eyes Award.

Lanxi Jia, director of To Human said that the film presents the life and spiritual conditions of modern people from a unique perspective, and reflects on people through profound thinking, questioning, awareness and introspection. Platform No. 3 is about the oldest railway of New China, about the people that take the only train that still travels on that route and the old stories about It. It talks about roots and future in China. Claudia Mastroroberto, the director of Platform No. 3, said, “It's so incredible how films can connect the people around the world.”

Moreover, Boshen Li won the Best Director for The Karma of Three Lives as well as Ziyan Wu and Xiangru Dong the Best Editing for Time Engraver. Li shared his belief that civilizations have become more abundant and more colorful with exchanges and mutual learning.

Looking China Youth Film Project as a Chinese cultural experience project that aims to showcase China’s simplicity and prosperity, ancient history and fashion through the unique perspective of young foreign filmmakers, and strengthen cross-cultural communication, exchanges, and cooperation between Chinese and foreign youths.

(Huanyao Liu, Hongyi Liu, Yue Zhang, as interns, contributed to the report)

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