news

한어Русский языкEnglishFrançaisIndonesianSanskrit日本語DeutschPortuguêsΕλληνικάespañolItalianoSuomalainenLatina

Documentary pioneer John Grierson called documentary film“A creative treatment of reality”。

In this definition, the camera exists as a device for capturing reality, while the director is the creator who writes creatively about reality.

From the British documentary film movement represented by Grierson to the French cinema of reality and the American direct cinema, all follow the creative principle of opposing fictional stories and artificial settings, and use documentary reproduction as aesthetic rhetoric.

With the rise of postmodern thought, the post-truth era has arrived.People are finding that the so-called "truth" is becoming increasingly difficult to understand.Various pioneering practices began to penetrate into the documentary field. New documentary films, private documentaries, animated documentaries, found images, documentary theaters and other diverse forms began to emerge.

Nowadays, documentaries have long blurred the distinction between fiction and reality, between recording and performance. As a free medium, images have escaped the shackles of established routines.

In the current environment, documentaries are booming.Among them, female practitioners play a vital role. Through the power of images, they show women's unique thinking, diverse perspectives, special concerns and pioneering experiments in documentaries.

They are active in the documentary industry, implementing feminism in concrete practice and writing about this era through documentary images. Documentary is an excellent medium for them to present women's situations and show women's power.

But for most people, it is not easy to make good use of this medium and shoot a truly valuable documentary.

In order to share the latest and most comprehensive documentary ecosystem with you and answer the questions that creators encounter during the creative process.Feminist Documentary Video WorkshopOnline courses.

The course will cover the most specific issues about documentaries, provide students with the most practical help, and highlight the highly-discussed issue of "feminism".

Six mentors

Senior female filmmaker

This course invited six senior female filmmakers who have been working in the industry for many years and have rich experience and mature works.

They includeSenior documentary researcher Tong Shan, documentary director Feng Yan (Bing Ai), freelance producer Xu Xiao (The Last, The First), documentary director and photographer Zhu Lingyu (Floating Maju Bridge), documentary and theater creator Zhang Mengqi (Self-Portrait series of documentaries), independent director and producer Wu Man (Betel Nut Blood)。

The six instructors will combine their own experience to provide students with detailed and comprehensive guidance.

Diversity

Full process system explanation

The course instructors are active in many documentary fields including theory, production, and creation.During the course, students can gain a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the current cutting-edge documentary ecology.

At the same time, the tutors not only have rich practical experience, but also rich guidance experience and systematic and mature teaching methods.Their courses contain the most valuable essence, and students can gain the most practical knowledge from them.

Specific and pragmatic

Convenient communication

The course is not a general summary of documentary film history, or a compilation of existing knowledge. Several instructors are currently active in documentary work, and are in the industry, with the most direct experience.In the course, they will introduce the most specific and practical industry ecology and creative methods to everyone. The course content is closely related to the growth of front-line creators.

At the same time, the course will be conducted through online live broadcast, and students canCommunicate with your instructor quickly and easily.You can also replay the parts you missed during class after class. Some courses also use the most innovative drama workshop format.Students will work in groups, interact and communicate, and find answers to questions through games and cooperation.

Teacher Introduction

Tong Shan

PROFILE

Documentary researcher and curator. His research interests include documentary theory and creative practice, Chinese documentary and its transnational production practice, youth images and film festival culture. He has published research papers in international academic journals such as Studies in Documentary Film and Journal of Chinese Cinemas. He is currently the Chinese film selector of the Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF) and has participated in HiShorts!, FIRST Youth Film Festival, and IM Cross-Strait Youth Film Festival as a judge.

Feng Yan

PROFILE

He started documentary creation in 1994. In 1997, he completed his first feature film, Dream of the Yangtze River, which was exhibited at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Berlin Anthropology Film Festival, the first Yunnan South Film Festival, etc., and won the Excellence Award at the First Taiwan International Documentary Biennial in 1998. In 2007, he completed Bing Ai, which won the Silver Balloon Award at the Nantes Three Continents Film Festival, the Asian New Wave "Ogawa Shinsuke Award" and the Community Film Award at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, the Best Film at the Spanish "Point of View" International Documentary Film Festival, the Best Film at the Belgian Filmmer A Tour Prix Film Festival, the Outstanding Documentary Humanitarian Award at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and the Outstanding Documentary Award at the China Documentary Film Exchange Week. He is currently in post-production of Women by the Yangtze River (a series, tentative title).

In 2009, he began to teach documentary film creation in documentary workshops and universities. In addition, he also translated many Japanese documentary books and film subtitles. The books he has translated include: Ogawa Shinsuke's "Harvesting Movies" (Shanghai People's Publishing House), Hara Kazuo's "Forward! A Manual for the Production of the Divine Army" (Taiwan Panorama Foundation), Sato Makoto's "The Horizon of Documentary Films - To Critically Accept the World" (to be published), etc.

He served as a judge for the 2008 China Documentary Exchange Week Competition Unit and the 2015 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival International Competition Unit; and was a mentor for the 2015 Taiwan DOC+ Documentary Workshop. He curated the "Ogawa Shinsuke Retrospective" and "Tsuchimoto Noriaki Retrospective" at the 2008 and 2009 Beijing Documentary Exchange Weeks.

Xu Xiao

PROFILE

Freelance producer, founder of the mutual aid community for female documentary practitioners "We Record WOMEN DOCU". Graduated from Southwest University, exchanged in Taiwan and the United States. In recent years, she has participated in the production and distribution of many award-winning documentaries at home and abroad, including "Plastic Kingdom", "Songs in the Wilderness", "Refining Love", etc. The latest documentary film "The Last, the First" produced by her has landed in theaters nationwide. Other works include "Women's World", "Secrets of May", "Some Things That Will Be Forgotten", etc. In 2022, she served as a judge for the documentary feature film group of the FIRST Youth Film Festival, and in 2023, she was selected for the FIRST Surprise Film Festival Producer Lab.

Zhu Lingyu

PROFILE

Documentary director, photographer, TED speaker, former media reporter. Representative works include "Floating Maju Bridge", "I went to 12 counties to find people who write poems on Kuaishou", "Sexual Assault Survivors", "Chinese Women's Uterus Narratives", etc.

Zhang Mengqi

PROFILE

Documentary and theater creator. Participated in the "Folk Memory Project" in 2010, and planned and co-organized the "Mother Film Festival" in 2021. Zhang Mengqi's "Self-Portrait" series of documentaries and theater creations revolve around her hometown, Diaoyutai Village, Yindian Town, Suizhou City, Hubei Province - "47 kilometers" as the starting point, and has been creating for 13 years between exploring history and illuminating reality.

The "Self-Portrait" series of documentaries has been selected for the "French Real Film Festival", "Swiss Nyon Real Film Festival", "BFI London Film Festival" and other festivals many times; and won the "White Goose Award for Best International Documentary at the Korean DMZ Documentary Film Festival", "Best Documentary Award at the Busan International Film Festival", "Best Director and Audience Choice Award at the Spanish Punto de Vista Film Festival", "Excellence Award in the International Competition Unit of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival" and so on.

His "Self-Portrait" series of theater works have been performed in international theater and dance festivals such as the Foundation CULTURESCAPES Art Festival in Switzerland, the French Youth Dance Exchange Season, the Vienna ImPuls Tanz Dance Festival, and the Croatian ZKM Youth Theater.

Wu Man

PROFILE

Independent director, producer, and curator. She studied at Beijing Film Academy and Li Xianting Film School. She is currently studying for a master's degree in applied drama at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has worked for Longyue CEIBS, Forttissimo and other institutions, engaged in film production and overseas distribution and co-production. She is also the organizing committee member and rotating chairperson of the Beijing Queer Film Festival.

For many years, she has been committed to advocating social diversity and inclusion by producing and disseminating video works focusing on gender equality issues. As a curator, she has curated the "25x25" short film exhibition focusing on China at the Helsinki Art Festival in Finland, the three-day short film open-air film festival "Shuttlecock Pavilion" in Baita Temple during the Beijing International Design Week, and the Chinese Queer Film Week at the Turkish Contemporary Art Museum. Her works as director and producer include "Betel Nut Blood" (Berlin Film Festival Panorama Unit), "Drum Tower West" (Budapest Friss Hus Film Festival), "I Want to Make a Lesbian Porn Film" (Vienna International Film Festival), "Non-Existent Choice" (Brussels Women's Film Festival), "Suicide Note" (Dortmund International Women's Film Festival, Seoul International Women's Film Festival and FIRST Youth Film Festival), and "A Kind of Loneliness" (Beijing Independent Film Festival). As a producer, she has trained at the 2020 Venice Film Festival Biennale Film Academy, the 2019 Berlin Film Festival talents, the 2020 Shanghai International Film Festival training camp and the 2014 FIRST Youth Film Festival Youth Training Camp.

Course Details

Scan the image above to purchase the course

After placing an order successfully

Please contact Muke customer service