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1 Sep 2010 09:44:24
The work of three international media graduates who shot a low-budget production in Mongolia is being shown at a prestigious short film festival in November.
The fictional film, made by the Media Production students in their final year, has been selected to be shown in a special programme of student offerings at the 16th Encounters International Film Festival in Bristol from 16-21 November.
The trio are Qin Si from Mongolia, who was director and scriptwriter, and the Chinese pair of cameraman Xiaochang Yao and editor Yu Huang.
Called Ge ri de Hai ri-ya, the film will be shown alongside others from the top film schools in the UK including the National Film and Television School, the National Film School of Ireland, and the London Film School.
In 2009, more than 150 student and non-student international films were screened in competition over five days to more than 500 delegates and 6,500 audience members. The films and animations were a selection of the best new talent from 58 countries.
Jim Hornsby, the Moving Image Course Leader at the University, said: “Encounters is a great celebration and there are film agents there looking for talent. The film was selected despite its relatively low production values and this is an exceptional achievement by our students.”
The students used basic equipment and local actors to shoot the film in summer 2009 which centres on three generations of one family – seven-year-old Hai ri-ya, her parents and her sick grandfather – who live a nomadic lifestyle in a remote part of Mongolia.
The young girl, who has previously tended the family’s sheep, is about to leave home and go away to school and it charts the three days before she prepares to embark on the unknown.
Jim continued: “In some ways, the film has an amateur feel because it’s simply made and tells an everyday story about a family but it’s beautifully observed and very well edited.
“The family lead an incredibly frugal lifestyle - their home is a tent, there is no electricity and they get water from the nearby lake. The beauty of the film lies in the way in which it shows how closely the family lives to nature and, in the end, it’s a very moving story.”
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