Director Feng Xiaogang wants to dedicate a film to raising
environmental protection awareness.
Feng outlined his plan on Wednesday at the inaugural ceremony
for the Green Film Movement in Beijing. The campaign is part of the
first ever environmentally-oriented film week in China, of which
Feng is the jury president.
The director, whose popular works include "The Assembly" and
"The Banquet," led a hundred or more attending filmmakers to sign a
declaration, pledging to strength their efforts for environmental
protection.
Feng says he is seeking opportunities to depict the issue in a
new film.
Chinese film director Feng
Xiaogang inaugurates the environmentally-oriented Green Film
Movement in Beijing, on Wednesday, January 16, 2008. (photo:
ent.163.com)
He also calls on other directors to do their part with their
cameras, saying that even a one-minute short influences public
opinion.
The environmentally-oriented film week will open on June 5,
World Environment Day. A digital video competition will highlight
the directors who come up with the best ideas for environmental
protection. Many foreign feature films and digital videos covering
this issue will be exhibited.
Filming of the festival opener, a film about saving water by
director Jiang Xiaoyu, will begin in early February.
(CRI January 17, 2008)
