In the 19th China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival, the Institute of Chinese Culture and International Communication of Beijing Normal University won the title of "China's Top Ten Documentary Promoters" for its brand project "See China • Foreign Youth Video Program" and its extensive influence in the world over the past 11 years.
Founded in 2003, the China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival is held in Guangzhou, China every December, and is hosted by the State Administration of Radio and Television and the People's Government of Guangdong Province. Focusing on the documentary festival for 18 years, the China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival has become the pulsating vane of China's documentary industry and the only national-level professional platform in China with documentary investment, financing and trading functions.
Awards video
Jointly sponsored by the Institute of Chinese Culture and International Communication (AICCC) of Beijing Normal University and the Huilin Cultural Fund, and supported by the Film and Television Education Professional Committee of the China Higher Education Association, the "Look at China Foreign Youth Image Project" is an international youth cultural exchange activity, which has been successfully held for eleven sessions so far. As of 2021, "Look at China" has organized more than 400 Chinese and foreign teachers to accept 804 foreign students from 74 foreign universities in 91 countries on five continents and more than 1,400 Chinese students from 37 Chinese universities in 26 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China, and has created 779 documentaries in more than 20 languages, won 138 international awards, and shown the world a credible, cute and respectable image of China.
Screenshot of the awards VCR
In the past eleven years, more than 700 documentaries have outlined a broad and rich, yet vivid and intimate video of contemporary China. Among them, the most precious thing is the unique understanding and discovery of foreign youth in China in the film, their cognition and understanding of the multiculturalism of contemporary China and the world, and the world values they find in Chinese culture. "Looking at China" not only brings cultural exchanges and emotional resonance across borders, but also provides new possibilities for the local creation and overseas export of documentary content.
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"Mobilizing the power of young people and promoting documentary creation and dissemination across regions, the Institute of Chinese Culture and International Communication of Beijing Normal University is a well-deserved pioneer."
——The 19th China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival
Mr. Huang Huilin, founder of "Look at China", senior professor of Beijing Normal University and dean of the Institute of International Communication of Chinese Culture, expressed his sincere gratitude for this honor. She pointed out that Chinese culture is broad and profound, Contemporary Chinese life is rich and colorful, and China's stories are like stars, which is the inexhaustible theme of international documentary creation. She earnestly hopes that more and more people in the Chinese and foreign film and television industries can participate in the excavation, recording and dissemination of Chinese stories, so as to promote the people-to-people connection between the people of the world and the unity of the world.
Mr. Huang Huilin delivered his acceptance speech online
Mr. Huang Huilin inspected Henan and exchanged photographs with foreign youth
This year, the annual theme of "Looking at China" is "Fenghua, Fashion, scenery", which aims to hope that foreign young people will explore the style of Chinese, the fashion of Chinese society and the vast natural scenery of China through their personal experience and video creation in China, and build a community of life between man and nature. At the beginning of 2022, "Look at China" added a special unit of "Watching the Winter Olympics", and three short films with the theme of the Winter Olympics have been filmed, namely "Winter Olympic Trumpeter", "Earth Spring" and "Winter to Spring". Next, the "Foreign Youth in China to See China" project will be launched in 8 provinces and cities in the east, west, south, south and central regions. At the same time, it will also carry out activities such as the "Chinese Elements Influencing the World - Rice" project, the global exhibition and broadcast of "China's Decade in the Eyes of Foreign Youth", and the Forum on Dialogue between Chinese and Foreign Youth Civilizations at home and abroad.
"Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now he steps forward from the beginning." In the future, "Looking at China" will continue to be committed to recording the real China with images, showing the image of China, and presenting the charm of China. We will continue to take it as our mission to promote Chinese culture to the world, and strive to enhance communication, understanding, respect and tolerance among people around the world.
Edit | Qin Yue
Editor-in-charge | Wang Shiwen
Producer | Grandson Xun