Plastic China
By
Jiu-Liang WangDuration
82 MIN
Language
Chinese (mandarin)
Subtitles
French/english
Country
China
Year
2016
Synopsis
Yi-Jie, an 11-year-old girl, works alongside her parents in a recycling facility while dreaming of attending school. Kun, the facility’s ambitious foreman, dreams of a better life. Plastic China brings us center into the lives of a community/culture barely heard from who toil daily in waste from around the globe - washing, cleaning and recycling the plastic garbage - and still living in poverty, yet harnessing the same dreams of education, good health and upward mobility. This is not the China we see on TV.
Direction
Jiu-Liang Wang
Director of award-winning and impactful documentary film BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE. WANG graduated from Communication University of China, School of Cinematic Arts in 2007. From 2007 to 2008, he finished a set of photography work about Chinese traditional superstitions. He started investigating the landfill pollution around Beijing in 2008. In 2011, he finished BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE, a set of photography work and a documentary with the same name. From 2012 to now, he has been working on the documentary PLASTIC CHINA.
Music
Tyler Strickland
Editing
Jean Tsien
Bob Lee
Original Title
Plastic China
French Title
Vivre de plastique
