On April 16, the 19th China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival "China Story" International Proposal Conference was announced.

Top Ten Projects Poster

It is reported that this proposal conference received a total of 218 proposals from 35 countries and regions. The creators showed the charm of the images from different angles and told stories that are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Through the initial evaluation and re-evaluation, 25 proposals finally got the opportunity to be displayed at the "China Story" International Proposal Conference. 45 decision-makers from home and abroad jointly selected the top ten programs and the programs with the most international potential.
For the first time this year, the "China Story" International Proposal Conference has joined hands with Bilibili. The latter has always been committed to discovering and supporting potential new-generation documentarians, seeking and telling Chinese stories with an international perspective. The proposal with the most votes in this "China Story" International Proposal Conference will be rated as the Bilibili×GZDOC proposal with the most international potential, and will receive a bonus of RMB 50,000.

"The Boy on a White Horse" poster

In the end, "Youth on a White Horse", which filmed the marginal group of Ghost Fire Boys, won this honor. Producer Yang Xinlei said in her acceptance speech, "Before the marginal group of Ghost Fire Boys died out, we could have the opportunity to record and let them know. These children have the opportunity to be valued and respected, which is a very lucky and exciting thing for us, and we will continue to work hard to tell the story of the white horse boy in the future."
Director Ye Bingjun said that the China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival has provided help to young filmmakers, and filmmakers have grown up in the event of the proposal conference, and hope to meet you at future festivals.
Through the China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival "China Story" International Proposal Conference, the "White Horse Boy" project has successfully gone abroad and went international. It is reported that "The Boy on a White Horse" will participate in the Deal Maker unit of the largest documentary film festival in North America, the Canadian Hot Docs Film Festival (Hot Docs), to meet with global decision-makers.
In the "streaming media "rolling up" forum of this documentary festival, Peter Hamilton, consultant of Documentary Business website and consultant of various festivals and exhibitions, bluntly said that "producers need to research the market before conceiving, producing and creating documentaries, and researching the market is the most important. The best way is to participate in the China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival.”
Fang Baide, International Consultant of China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Film Festival and President of Forensic Productions, also said that there are many "Chinese stories", and China has many powerful and very powerful documentary creators. The "China Story" International Proposal Conference is a great A very good platform, I hope to recommend their films to the international market, so that more people can hear Chinese stories.

Stills of "The Night Sunny in the World"

According to incomplete statistics, there are 154 Chinese documentaries whose plans have won international co-production financing or referral opportunities through this platform to help Chinese documentaries go abroad, including such as "The Returning Train", "Thousands of Tests", "The Mountain That Made Clouds" and "Alive" Documentaries such as "My Poems" were funded and successfully made into films at the China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival. In February this year, the documentary project "Real Growth", which was shortlisted for the final evaluation of the "China Story" International Proposal Conference, was launched on Tencent Video and has received more than 50 million views.

Stills of "White Feather Fly"

The final results are as follows: (The following rankings are in no particular order)
"The White Horse Boy"
China / USA | Ye Bingjun | Independent Production
"White Feather Flying"
China | Zhang Tongdao | Beijing Tongdao Real Culture Media Co., Ltd.
"Strange Fish"
UK / USA / China | Xu Yingying | Convex Mirror DOC
"Night Sunny in the World"
China | Dong Jun | Xi'an Yiwuxi Advertising and Culture Communication Co., Ltd. / Xi'an Sanmoxi Art and Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
"Cement Floor"
JORDAN | Asmahan Bekrat | NAVA PROJECTS
"Death to Death"
Latvia | Davis Simanis | Ego Media
"Unforgivable"
Italy | Simone Spinputo | Jumping Flea srl
"Searching for the World of Haicuotu"
China | Chen Chen | Shenzhen Xingang Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
"Yasmin's Diary"
LEBANON / FRANCE | CHRISTIAN ABI ABOUD | NE A BEYROUTH FILMS
"505"
China | Xu Chuyun | Hubei Record Cloud Culture Media Co., Ltd.