Synopsis
In order to win the performance place of the lion dance team in the city’s Autumn Scenery Competition, Pan Xiaohe, the village secretary, convened an amateur lion dance team and led them to participate in the competition with Beishi Village. In the process of preparing for the competition, a series of farcical stories happened. In the end, the difficulties were overcome. Although they lost the game, everyone won their own new lives.
An Jiaxing
An Jiaxing, a cutting-edge female director in China, graduated from the Journalism Department of the School of International Communication, Beijing International Studies University. The representative short film "Untouchable Love" won the Best Short Film Award at the 4th Beijing Film Festival for Youth. The film " Pilot Meixi" directed by An Jiaxing won the 8th Lightyear Cup Award for Excellent Film of the Year. Representative documentaries: "Burning Fields"; "Jasmine in the Sky".
Director's statement
With the background of the first batch of National Intangible Cultural Heritage representatives of Lingnan Region folk culture–Lion Dance, this film told the story of Pan Xiaohe, the village secretary of Nanshi Village, who leaded villagers to convene an amateur lion dance team to participate in the city’s Autumn Scenery Competition. They overcame difficulties and finally achieved breakthroughs and changes in themselves. Through the survey of villagers of different ages, the film reflected different views of the new and old generations on traditional culture in urban and rural areas and the changes and prosperity brought to people’s lives by the rural revitalization policy. The film is based on the main line of the whole village’s efforts for the competition, and it tells general truth through a little story, which not only focuses on the inheritance and innovation of folk culture, but also embodies humanistic care and spiritual construction of new countryside.
