He started investigating the landfill pollution around Beijing in 2008. At the end of the day, as a global nation, we are all in this together, and we all play a part in this ever changing world.Director of award-winning and impactful documentary film BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE. PLASTIC CHINA also unveils the true face of China. Going to school is all she longing for.

Showing all 3 items Jump to: Summaries (3) Summaries. Yi-Jie, an 11-year-old girl, works alongside her parents in a recycling facility while dreaming of attending school. A portrait of poverty, ambition and hope set in a world of waste. After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment. It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao's camps, at the end of the fifties, where 'rightists' were sent to be 're-educated through labor'. Small packs of discarded instant black powder tells her the bitter taste of “coffee”; the English children’s learning cards teach her words like “summer” and “father’s day”; and brokenBarbie dolls are her best friends to talk to. Relive the funniest moments that happened before the opening credits of "Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. A portrait of poverty, ambition and hope set in a world of waste. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives. Will she succeed to sit in a classroom and learn? WANG graduated from Communication University of China, School of Cinematic Arts in 2007. While China's rise, and its immense challenges, commands world attention, less light has been shed upon the colossal problem of waste generated by a burgeoning population, expanding ... Starting off 2017, Tyler will be attending Sundance in support of his two recent films; THE MARS GENERATION (Netflix Original Documentary), and PLASTIC CHINA. When it rains it pours.
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His production including THE FOOLISH BIRD (Huang Ji, in Competition 2017 Berlinale Generation), EGG AND STONE (Huang Ji, Tiger Award in Rotterdam), CHONGQING BLUES (Wang Xiaoshuai, Competition Cannes), COURTHOUSE ON THE HORSEBACK (Liu Jie, Best Feature film of Orizzonti in Venice), BEIJING BICYCLE (Wang Xiaoshuai, Silver Bear award in Berlinale), and BETELNUT BEAUTY (Berlinale Silver Bear, by Lin Zhengsheng).Guanting Yue, Benjamin.

Kun, the facility’s ambitious foreman, dreams of a better life. Tyler's scores have accompanied recent award-winning documentary films such as Netflix Original, AUDRIE & DAISY (Sundance 2016), THE RETURN (Tribeca 2016 Audience Award Winner), BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS (SXSW 2016), CNN Films' FRESH DRESSED (Sundance 2015), Emmy-nominated Netflix Original, HOT GIRLS WANTED (Sundance 2015), and a dozen others since he began composing for film in 2011, shortly after transitioning from long career as a touring musician.

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Through the story of these two families, the film explores how these wastes recycled by the bare hands of families, and discovers their dilemma and choices of suffering irreversible damages on life just to make a living. With high external costs impacting the local environment and health, these imports are reborn here in these plastic workshops into “recycled” raw materials for the appetite of China - the world factory. People lose their mind over this unreal beauty and their own fates are formed into whatever shape reality requires - just like those plastic products coming out of the mold machine.Tracing further to the plastic waste imported from around the world, this signals and symbolizes the lives of those on the other side of the world - far away from China’s plastic recycling workshops. —Richard Foord. In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). CNEX works with independent filmmakers to produce contemporary Chinese documentaries. Five short films set in Hong Kong in the year 2025. Products have achieved impressive milestones not only at prominent international film festivals such as Venice Film Festival and Cinéma du réel, but also at domestic awards Golden Horse.