For the Associated Press, Louise Watt reports on the impact that environmental filmmakers are having in China. Among those profiled in the report are Wang Jiuliang and Jian Yi, whose previous environmental films are distributed by dGenerate: Beijing Besieged by Waste by Wang and What’s for Dinner? by Jian.
Wang Jiuliang discusses his new film “Plastic China.” (photo credit: Associated Press)
An excerpt from the report:
One clip shows a girl swatting flies from a younger child among piles of trash. Another has children blowing up used medical gloves like balloons. The footage is on the computer screen of Wang Jiuliang as he edits his second film about waste harming China’s environment. He’s already in discussions to show it on the main state-run broadcaster and answering calls from state media reporters who want to interview him. This in a country where independent filmmakers critical of the government generally face censorship, harassment or worse. Environmental filmmakers continue to be hassled at the local level — Wang said he has been chased by dogs, threatened and punched — but their work apparently is being tolerated nationally because it aligns with the Communist Party leadership’s new priority of fighting pollution.
Read the full article at AP.