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小辉的一天 A Day with Xiaohui

On 18th of November in 2017, a big fire in Beijing forced the migrant workers who were called as 'low-end labour' by the government to make a choice between stay or leave.

The camera accompanied Xiaohui, a 24 years old noodle-maker from Hebei province, to record one of his repeated working days one week after that fire.

The film tried to show how a destructive public incident would affect a marginalized ‘ nobody’ in Beijing, which might hopefully be a way to decrease discrimination.

  • Manman Yang
    Director
  • Manman Yang
    Producer
  • 任宝辉
    Key Cast
  • Manman Yang
    Editor
  • Manman Yang
    Cinematographer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    小辉的一天
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 20, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    1080P
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Society for Visual Anthropology Film& Media Festival
    VACOUVER
    Canada
    November 20, 2019
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Manman Yang

Manman Yang, born and raised up in the southern China. She got her M.A. of Drama and Film Study from Beijing Film Academy in 2015, and then started working as a documentary filmmaker and curator. Driven by cultural shocks from her living experience in the Europe, she started to use documentary filmmaking as a way to reflect the reality and affect the world. She was the content researcher and film developer for British Science Museum in its one year tour exhibition SUPERBUGS in China. She made the documentary for British Embassy in Beijing on 2019 Newton prize of the UK-China scientific innovation partnership. Her short documentary A DAY WITH XIAOHUI became the official selection of 2019 Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival (SVAFMF) and was screened in Vancouver. In 2019, she set up Believing is Seeing Studio in Guangzhou, focused on documentary production and visual anthropology. Now she is making her first feature length documentary on the LGBT community in China, SOME BODY TO LOVE, which won Jury Award in SVAFMF pitch session.

杨曼曼，出生、成长于湖南怀化，目前以纪录片导演和策展人的身份生活工作于广州。2015年硕士毕业于北京电影学院，后旅居欧洲一年；在中西文化的冲击下，开始以纪实影像为媒介，理解现实，影响世界。曾任英国科学博物馆中国区内容研究及影片顾问，负责中英合作科普巡展“超级细菌”人物故事内容研究及纪录短片拍摄；2019年英国驻华大使馆“牛顿奖”中英科研创新纪实短片导演；2018广州国际纪录片电影节“金红棉”影展初评评委；有译著《导演攻略》。其有关2017年北京大兴火灾的纪录短片《小辉的一天》是2019年国际视觉人类学电影节（SVAFMF)官方展映选片，并在温哥华展映。2019年她在广州创立纪实厂牌“眼见为实”，专注于纪实影像、视觉艺术和视觉人类学。目前，她正在拍摄首部纪录长片《人人爱我，我爱人人》，该片关注中国大陆性少数群体，获得2019年SVAFMF创投单元评审团奖。

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Director Statement

This film is dedicated
—to have a calm and objective observation on a victim/ survivor of the Daxing Fire, based on the reality, without sensationalism or excessive criticism;
— to see how a destructive public event would effect a marginalized ‘Nobody’ in Beijing;
— to show the pressure caused by the lack of security and basic welfare support for a human;
— to raise public attention to the young migrant workers (or so called low-end labors), whose importance to the Chinese society’s modern construction had been under-valued and whose living circumstances had been ignored for a long time;
— to give an access for audience to truly understand the protagonist’s dilemma, and to arise the empathy by the art of visual storytelling, which might be the key to decrease discrimination.

本片是大兴火灾后，一次对“低端人口”的冷静克制的观察，基于事实，不煽情，不控诉；试图探讨具有“破坏性的”公共事件对边缘化小人物的影响；展示人在缺乏安全感和足够的社会保障时所产生的焦虑；引发公众对年轻一代“农民工”的关注，重新审视他们对中国大城市建设所产生的不可低估的价值，关注他们长期被忽视的生存状态。