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Female Directors 女导演
The UCLA International Institute presents the mockumentary, "Female Directors," as part of their 2014 China Onscreen Biennial: Wild Women.
Where
Wild Women
North American Premiere 2012
Director/Screenwriter/Production Designer/Editor: Yang Mingming
Producer: Yang Jing
Cinematographer: Yang Mingming, Guo Yue
Cast: Guo Yue, Yang Mingming
MPEG, color, in Mandarin w/ English s/t, 42 min.
This sharp and sassy “mockumentary” follows two foul-mouthed twenty-something art school graduates (Wang Mingming and her co-conspirator Guo Yue) who, as job prospects elude them, decide to film each other’s lives instead, passing the camera back and forth. “My best toy is my small camera, not pretty boys, because it can be a gun sometimes,” says Wang. – Bérénice Reynaud
Preceded by:
The Private Life of Fenfen
The VaChina Monologues
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