Doc-China Festival Screening Programme (20/11)

Doc-China Festival screening programme initiated by Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China and China Global Television Network has been rolling out globally since June 2022. China Cultural Centre in Sydney is part of this programme and will project 8 selected documentaries, Beyond the Mountains: Life in Xinjiang, Sanxingdui: Rediscovering a Lost Civilisation, Facing the Flood, My New Year, Princess of the Beavers, No Child Left Behind, Foodwise：Quanzhou, Fujian Puppetry, China Untapped: Changsha. This programme will tell vivid stories about the Chinese people building their beautiful homeland, present an old-and-modern and booming China, enhance people-to-people exchange and promote exchange and cooperation in film and television between China and Australia.

Foodwise：Quanzhou
Time: 14:00 pm-14:30 am (30min)
In this episode, He Tianran and Eva May visit Quanzhou, Fujian, the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, to explore the humanistic charm of the ancient capital of southern Fujian, and to enjoy the gourmet feast from the mountains and seas. Follow them walking through the streets and alleys of the old city, looking for famous local delicacies, enjoying the fresh and delicate Fujian style in the noodle paste, roast pork dumplings, fried vinegar meat and seaweed jelly; visiting the old arcaded streets and appreciating the wonderful integration of European and South-eastern Asian styles; looking for Xunpu flower girl and exploring the traces of Arabic civilization; boiling a cup of hot tea and tasting a famous dish to be immersed in the fusion of world cultures and Southern Fujian traditions.

Fujian Puppetry
Time: 14:45 pm-15:15 am (30min)
Fujian Puppetry is a representative of Chinese puppet performing art, which has two major forms, marionette and hand puppet. Introduced from the central China 1500 years ago, Fujian puppetry has formed a complete performing system with exquisite skills, rich traditional repertoire, vibrant music singing and superb figure shaping art and is very popular in the local community. Whether marionette with over 30 strings or hand puppet like gloves are brought to life by dexterous hands of the performers. This documentary tells the stories of Mr. Hong Shijian, Director of Quanzhou Marionette Troupe, Ms Cai Siya, marionette performer and Mr. You Tianxiang, Director of Jinjiang Hand-puppet Troupe, who share the charm of the traditional puppet performance and the future development of the art.

Princess of the Beavers
Time: 16:00 pm-17:00 am (60min)
The documentary tells that Mr. Chu Hongjun and his daughter Chu Wenwen of two generations protect and preserve wild animals in Altay district in Xinjiang and explores the way to handle the border issue between human being and animals. Chu Hongjun, Director of Kalamaili ungulate Nature Reserve, has been engaged in wild animal preservation for about 28 years. Chu Wenwen initiated Tongzhichu Wild Animal Preservation Association at the age of 24 and began photographing the wild animals even at 7. Her favourite animals are the around 500 Sino-Mongolian Beavers living along the Ulungur River. The beaver is a relict animal ever living in the same times with Dinosaurs. As China's national first-class protected animals and the only river beaver species existing in China, they are as rare as Pandas and an integral part of the Ulungur River ecosystem. Chu Wenwen is determined to shoulder the responsibility of preservation of wild animals from her father to address the survival challenges facing the beavers.