Private Project

Light

This documentary shows Li Xueying, an elderly woman of the Yao minority. Both of her sons died, and she is left to take care of her granddaughter, who is her only hope. This documentary shows Li Xueying's sorrowful and hard life, as well as her firm faith in living for her granddaughter.

  • Lin Zhiquan
    Writer
  • Lin Jie
    Producer
  • Zhong Manhong
    Producer
  • Lin Zhiquan
    Producer
  • Li Xueying
    Key Cast
    " Li Xueying"
  • Li Siyi
    Key Cast
    "Li Siyi"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 27, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Language:
    Chinese, English
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Shenzhen
    China
    November 22, 2018
    China premiere
    Unit of Public Welfare Works of 5th Shenzhen Youth Image Festival-Best Public Welfare Works
  • Beijing
    China
    October 21, 2018
    China premiere
    First Prize of the Documentary Works of the 7th International University Students Microfilm Festival;
Director Biography

Lin Zhiquan,33 Film Studio founder,young documentary director.

On November 30, 2016, he joined the country's first mobile video platform FINDER to serve as a documentary film director;
On May 9th, 2017, he joined the LIANGZHI PUBLIC WELFARE series of micro-documentary "People Biography" and served as a documentary film director/photographer/editor;
On February 24, 2018, the Guangzhou International Documentary Festival and Imagination Media co-sponsored the first training camp of the "WE DIRECTOR". The tutor was the internationally renowned director Du Haibin.

Lin’s work has been awarded
Unit of Public Welfare Works of 5th Shenzhen Youth Image Festival-Best Public Welfare Works;
2017 China International Philanthropy Movie Festival Excellent Exhibition Award;
First Prize of the Documentary Works of the 7th International University Students Microfilm Festival;
The first Guangzhou (International) Urban Image Contest “Open Group·Micro Documentary Gold Award”;
SHVFS Film Production Program Short Film Contest·Second Prize;
Second Prize of the 7th China Film and Television "College Award" Record Works;

Finalist in the 8th "Light and Shadow Year - China Academy Awards of Documentary Film";
One of the outstanding works of the 2016 NEWKEER Global Innovator Micro Record Salon at the 6th Beijing International Film Festival Recording Unit;
The best micro-documentary for the 4th Phoenix Documentary Awards ;
Finalist in the 2016 Zurong Dialect Film Festival;
Shortlisted for the 2018 China International Philanthropy Movie Festival;
Shortlisted at the 13th San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival (2016 SDIKFF).

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Director Statement

Thanks to the Conscience Public Benefit, I have opportunities to meet those who still keeping their faith to their lives despite of poverty and desperation, to feel their real and strong heartbeat.
Most of the time, we don't see the light of the life, thinking that we are walking alone on the journey of life. But actually, there are somebody who are searching light for themselves in the dark, in somewhere we can not see.
There are some faiths,
Pure and tiny,
But with them,
The world is shining.
In this era which is shadowed by various events and concepts of all sorts, I would like to present the old woman's humble and negligible wishes and her common story.
I firmly believe that, making others touched with philanthropic acts is something important, which I will keep doing.