The 4th Theme

The 4th Theme

The 4th Theme: Crisis and Opportunity

Since the second half of 2008, the world is shrouded in immense risks caused by a series financial tsunami derived from the US Subprime mortgage crisis. In this age of globalization, the effects of this financial and economical crisis is still non-stopping but ever-expanding. The crisis’ depth and scope is also unpredictable.

In mainland China, factories ceased fire and came to close down, and the rural migrant workers couldn’t find jobs thereafter; In Hong Kong, downsizing is a common occurrence; while in Taiwan, the forecast of the economy growth is unprecedented adjusted to minus 5% or even worse.

The impact of the financial crisis is permeating every family. It is not only an impact on economy, but also on social structure and the value of life. The crisis is challenging our imagination of the wealthy years. It is shaking our ways of resources allocation. It is threatening our idea of life. It is attacking our pursuit of lifestyles. It comes right into our face, and asks us to change.
As a platform dedicated in documenting the changes of contemporary Chinese Society with non-fiction films, CNEX must face this worldwide crisis courageously. We’re therefore calling people in documentary and cultural arena to turn your cameras onto the Chinese Society amid this financial crisis, to observe, document and annotate.
In the Chinese characters, “Weiji, Crisis” itself is a compound word. It can represent risks but also opportunities. The Chinese believe that opportunity lies in crisis. How can this kind of dialectical thinking reflects on social and personal stories?
CNEX will call for phenomenon and stories from three areas below to organize perceptive documentaries in order to reveal the theme of “Crisis and Opportunity” under financial tsunami:

– Finance and Economy: How does the impact of financial crisis reach every part of society? How is everyone involved in the network of financial and industrial globalization, from immigrant workers to industry owners, from coastal cities to inland towns, from the people born in the 50s to the people born in the 80s, from institutions to independent families? In the crisis, how do they handle, change or escape?
Ecology and Resource: At the meantime, the change of the climate, the deterioration of the environment and the lack of recourses is continuously happening. How these risks from human living environment and resources will force us to change? LOHAS, clean energy, green city, balance between urban and rural area. What kinds of efforts have already been done under these concepts? How are their impact and influence?
Humanism and Value: The fast-growing consumer society, mass culture, and electronic media in the past 20 to 30 years have an inseparable connection with the credit explosion which caused the financial crisis. But today, the erosion of the infrastructure will sure bring a displacement of the super structure. Schools, media, and cultural industry have also gone through many years of commercialization. How can these sectors handle the financial crisis with their cultural value and belief? And for the younger generation, what kind of belief and value they could take away when they enter the society and world in crisis?
 
CNEX expects the films in 2010 will give an indelible imprint when the Chinese Society go through the global crisis and opportunity process. They would able to explain to the world that we have faced, we have devoted, we have reckoned, and we have tried. As for the result, it could only leave for the time to judge.

 

2010 CNEX年度主題徵案入圍名單:

長片組 十五名

導演 片名 導演所在地
範儉 《斷裂帶》 中國大陸
金育 《雲》 中國大陸
王楊 《畢業》★入選 中國大陸
申晉光 《淘金鄂尒多斯》 中國大陸
王羿人 《紅色小提琴》★備選 中國大陸
陳富 《奶牛夢工廠》 中國大陸
哈樂夫(胡林平) 《晴朗的天空》★入選 中國大陸
李小江 《哈啰,東莞》 中國大陸
羅麗梅 《我們這幾年》★備選 中國大陸
舒浩侖 《中國夢》 中國大陸
龍渺淵 《Soul of Dancing》 中國大陸
陳榮顯 《羽仔》★入選 臺灣
許慧如 《生存遊戲》 臺灣
黃淑梅 《嶺南村》 臺灣
Flora Lau 《Self-improvement》 香港

短片組 八名

導演 片名 導演所在地
張世偉 《城南》 中國大陸
張偉 《改變》★入選 中國大陸
樊弘 《再建》 中國大陸
張天輝 《09+1》 中國大陸
鄭迪 《困獸猶鬥》★入選 中國大陸
傅榆 《百萬格子小富翁》★入選 臺灣
吳昱锜 《失焦的視野》★備選 臺灣
王侯偉 卓翔 《幹旦路》★特別項目 香港

恭喜以上入圍導演。