Ok, a little update on the documentary project.

What was the objective?

We want to make a web series of 6 episodes. (6 episodes and 1 website)

where are we at now?

We are editing the first version of the first episode.
It's about an organic restaurant in Kunming, Yunnan, in the south east of China.
This episode means to show the model of circuit-court. Fanli, the owner, manages the only locally based organic restaurant in Kunming.
Almost all her vegetables come form her father's garden in Malong, 50 kilometers from Kunming.

Some News

All three of us participated in a residency organised by Paroles de paysans in Reims.
Pdp is a group of young graduates of agro-economy who are also passionate about audio vidual art, notably for documentaires.
They organized 3 conferences with a producer, a director and an editor.
We learned not only the techniques, also it helped us decide whether or not to continue to look for funds.
The producer told us that, in France, it's almost impossible to find funds for on-going film projects.
Residencies for writing yes, fund for research yes(reperage, still, to be legitemate for the application, one need a rather complete file, including a teaser, so... a bit self-contradictary), and the we jump to the buying. We thus realised the importance of a website.
Since the television is extremely difficult, festivals and appel a projects are a long shot, more grass-rooted way of doing is more relevant for us.

What about this website?

In order to show our exsitence, we can either show up in social media(existing platforms) or create the platfrom ourselves. Actually, in terms of social media, one of us is in charge of the content creation for wechat and instagram in the form of short videos(2 mins). These videos document the making-of of the documentary, also the ecological farmers, interesting events that we enconter on the way. Our audiences are people who are intesrested in ecology and agriculture. These social media platforms can help us find these audiences, build a momentum for the final documentary.

More about this website

The website is a place where everything comes together. When we were writing the senario of our documentary, a screen writer form VediaDoc asked us the question: do you want your movie to be information heavy or to be emotionally rooted? Back then we didn't have the answer, cause for the first documentary creaters, we didn't realized the existence of the spectrum. Where do we want to place ourselves? Why do we have to make this choice?

Things are getting even more chaotic once we tried to put the film together, crucial choices to make: voice over or not? music or not? experts' intervention or not? It seemed to us that we are facing a ball of threads, not able to find the starting point. Then we thought about that question: where do we want to place our film?