On the evening of December 4, the 20th China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Film Festival opened at the new Guangzhou Cultural Center. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the festival. It has received 7,280 works from 156 countries and regions, and 3,234 works from 58 "Belt and Road" countries have participated in the exhibition, covering more than half of the countries and regions in the world, and more than half of the works participated in the exhibition from overseas. The quantity and quality have improved compared to previous years.

It is understood that the competition for the selection of outstanding documentaries at the 20th China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival Golden Red Cotton has been unprecedentedly fierce. A total of 198 outstanding works have entered the re-evaluation stage. The content of these works covers history and humanities, social issues, physical geography, biographies, culture In many fields such as art, the topics are diverse and close to reality; the perspectives are unique and boldly innovative.

In addition, this year's "China Story International Proposal Conference" collected a total of 235 proposals from 37 countries and regions, and 22 outstanding cases will be displayed at the conference.

From December 4th to December 7th, the documentary festival will launch more than 80 professional documentary activities around the five major links of solicitation and evaluation, market transactions, industry exchanges, professional forums, and international training, including an image exhibition about the city of Guangzhou. , kicked off at the branch venue - Douyuan, a digital documentary industrial park at No. 168 Huazhou Road, Haizhu District.

The "Urban Imagery (Guangzhou)" image charity exhibition is the first development of the Guangzhou City Imagery series exhibition. Starting from 1994, when recording began, a number of precious historical images of Guangzhou that were rarely seen thirty years ago were selected and truly presented. The city scene at that time.

Curator Li Xinxin is an old TV worker and archivist. Since 1994, he has carried a camera, traveled through the streets and alleys, visited various companies, witnessed major urban events, and faithfully recorded the changes of the city with images, leaving behind a lasting legacy. He created a wealth of historical image materials. To this day, the recording is still ongoing. His son, Li Ang, also took over the camera gun from his hand and continues to record the city's images. The inheritance between father and son is also an unchanging insistence on recording the truth and recording emotions.

China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival Poster

China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival was founded in 2003. It is hosted by the State Administration of Radio and Television and the People's Government of Guangdong Province, organized by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government and the Guangdong Provincial Radio and Television Bureau, and implemented by the Guangzhou Municipal Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau. After 20 years of continuous hard work, the China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival has developed from an original documentary academic seminar to the largest professional documentary festival in Asia that integrates screening, exchange, discussion, evaluation, trading and other functions. One of the exhibitions.

Guangzhou actively encourages and supports "Internet +". In the context of the integration of culture and tourism, high standards have launched innovative digital industry brands with cultural and creative content as the core. Emerging industries such as ultra-high definition, e-sports, and VR have also risen rapidly, showing Good development trend. Guangzhou has established the Guangzhou Non-fiction Imaging Innovation and Development Center to explore the expansion of content application scenarios and the diversity of digital work forms through industry research, industry activities, content research and development, digital science and technology innovation and other forms. Actively implement the two-way drive of digital imaging and cultural tourism development, organically integrate and promote each other with the market real economy, and promote it with a documentary festival, a documentary research and exhibition center, a documentary museum, a digital documentary industry park, and a smart audio-visual cloud platform Form a diversified documentary industry ecosystem.

It is reported that the results of the Golden Red Cotton Excellent Documentary Selection will also be announced at the closing ceremony on the evening of December 7. A few days ago, the final shortlist for this year’s Golden Cotton Documentary Festival was officially announced, including 45 films from around the world, including "Spirited Away", "Shanghai Girls", "Captain Everest", "Journey of Perseverance" and "The Love of a Lifetime" Documentary works from all over the country have entered the final evaluation stage.

Posters of some of the shortlisted works