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‘Songs from Maidichong’
1st Prize, Yage Prize (Visual Arts) Winning Works, 2020
1st Prize, The 10th Chinese Documentary Festival, 2017

Zoom play
Dialogue with director Hu Jie



Please click on the link below to enter the venue at 7:30 pm on December 18, 2020 (Beijing time)
https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/94323550931?pwd=ai9oK0JqR3psUlZ1dVhrQ2V5cUIyQT09
7:30pm -- 8:50pm, Zoom play
9:00pm -- 10:00pm, Dialogue with director Hu Jie (please use the Zoom Q&A feature to submit your questions)

All villagers of Maidichong, the Miao village located in the middle of the mountains in central Yunnan, believe in Christianity. They have kept the faith that came from Europe over a hundred years ago. Singing Christian hymns is a daily routine in the villagers’ life. The moving voices seem to come from the sky above. The film tells how the villagers adhere to their beliefs and shows their worries in real life.

Language: Chinese; Subtitles: Chinese and English; Duration: 83 minutes

Hu Jie, born in 1958. Served in the PLA Air Force for 15 years. He started to shoot documentaries in 1995 and independently completed more than 30 documentaries. He focuses on reality, such as "Far Mountain", which records the lives of miners (1995); "Folk Song on the Plain", a story about abducted women (2001), as well documentaries reflecting on history, such as the Great Famine documentary "Spark"(2013), "Looking for Lin Zhao's Soul", "Although I Die", which is about the victims of the Cultural Revolution (2006) or "My Mother Wang Peiying", (2010). Hu Jie is also an excellent painter and is especially good at printmaking.


This documentary can be watched on youtube: https://youtu.be/A0umVais55c