![]() ![]() This groundbreaking work from Li Hong, China’s first independent female documentarian, follows two years in the lives of four young women from the countryside who have come to Beijing for jobs. He is currently working on a new documentary about the race to save an ancient Buddhist city in Logar province, Afghanistan. Most recently, he completed the award-winning documentary THE COLONY for Al Jazeera about China in Africa. In 2009, Huffman covered Vortex 2, the world's largest tornado research project for NBC and The Weather Channel. He recently completed a book about his experiences in China called "Life in the Heart of China: Diary from a Forbidden World." Huffman is also a writer whose work has been featured in CNN, The Asia Society, Tricycle Magazine, Bust Magazine, The Wilson Quarterly, FRONTLINE and The China Digital Times. #CORPORATIONS LIKE FEUDAL KINGDOMS FILM SERIES#Huffman was also an editor of Julia Reichert’s and Steven Bognar’s Primetime Emmy winning PBS documentary series A LION IN THE HOUSE, about children battling cancer. These films have gone on to win numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy, Best Conservation Film-Jackson Hole, Best Documentary-Fresno, three Cine Golden Eagle Awards, a College Emmy, a Student Academy Award and a Grand Jury Award at AFI's SILVERDOCS. Huffman has been making social issue documentaries and environmental films for more than a decade in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He has also directed, produced, shot and edited short documentaries for online outlets like TIME, Salon, Huffington Post and PBS Arts. His work ranges from documentaries aired on The Discovery Channel, The National Geographic Channel, NBC, CNN, PBS and Al Jazeera, to Sundance Film Festival premieres, to films made for the China Exploration and Research Society. Huffman is an award-winning director, writer, and cinematographer of documentaries and television programs. Zhou also translated former Vice President Al Gore’s global warming presentation, featured in the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, for a Chinese audience. ![]() Most recently, Zhou has co-produced and co-directed The Colony about the Chinese in Africa with her husband Brent E. The documentary short Utopia 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall produced by Zhou has premiered in the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Zhou’s film The Women’s Kingdom received a silver medal in the documentary category of 2006 Student Academy Awards and won the Best Editing Award from San Francisco Women’s Film Festival. For the past few years, she has been honored by the Foreign Press Association, American Women in Radio and Television, Asian American Journalists Association and Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Her documentaries have screened at various film festivals around the world. Zhou’s work has aired on The Discovery Channel, PBS and Al Jazeera, among others. As a native Chinese and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Zhou specializes in international reporting and making documentaries about Asian cultures. Xiaoli Zhou is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and instructor at University of Chicago Laboratory Schools with a strong journalism background. This finely wrought film is a sensitive portrayal of extraordinary women struggling to hold on to their extraordinary society. ![]() While tourism has brought wealth and 21st century conveniences to this remote area, it has also introduced difficult challenges to the Mosuo culture – from pollution in the lake, to the establishment of brothels, to mainstream ideas about women, beauty and family. Mosuo women control their own finances and do not marry or live with partners they practice what they call "walking marriage." A man may be invited into a woman’s hut to spend a "sweet night," but must leave by daybreak. Keepers of one of the last matriarchal societies in the world, Mosuo women in a remote area of southwest China live beyond the strictures of mainstream Chinese culture – enjoying great freedoms and carrying heavy responsibilities.īeautifully shot and featuring intimate interviews, this short documentary offers a rare glimpse into a society virtually unheard of 10 years ago and now often misrepresented in the media. ![]()
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