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The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University SPECIAL SCREENING AND QA SESSION MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2006 7:00 PM, Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue _______________________________________________________________ VISUAL DOCUMENTARY PROJECT ON CHINA’S VILLAGE-LEVEL DEMOCRACY An Introduction Launched in September 2005 by the EU-China Training Programme on Village Governance, the Visual Documentary Project on China’s Village-Level Democracy covers activities in the following five sub-fields: 10 Villager DV (Digital Video) Documentary Films Project 10 Young Documentary Film-Makers Project 100 Villager Photographers Project A documentary film on the villagers’ DV project A documentary film on the history of China’s village self-governance Curator: Wu Wenguang, documentary filmmaker, Visual Consultant for the EU-China Training Programme on Village Governance Coordinator: Jian Yi, filmmaker, photographer, Public Communications Expert with the EU-China Training Programme on Village Governance The following three productions are currently available: 1. Chinese Villagers’ DV Documentaries on Village-Level Democracy Length of the film: 95 minutes Produced in December 2005 Language: Chinese (with English and Chinese subtitles) Curator: WU Wenguang Coordinator: JIAN Yi FILMMAKERS NONG Ke (literally meaning “agriculture” “science”), Male, age 59, an ethnic Zhuang farmer from Guangxi province Film title: A Welfare Council ZHANG Huancai, Male, age 45, a Shaanxi native, a farmer plus freelance writer Film title: A Futile Election ZHOU Cengjia, Male, age 42, a farmer from Hunan Film title: Village Leader Wu Aiguo SHAO Yuzhen, Female, age 55, a farmer from Beijing Film title: I Film My Village NI Lianghui, Male, age 35, a Hubei native, currently running a barber shop in the coastal province of Guangdong Film title: Returning Home for the Election CILI Zhuoma, Female