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INDIA PREMIERE |
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| Under Construction |
| France / 2007 / 10 min / Chinese |
| Zhenchen Liu |
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| Synopsis |
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| City planners decide to pull down parts of Shangai's old town in order to
regenerate the city. Every year more than one hundred thousand
families are forced to leave their homes and move into buildings on the
edge of the city. Under Construction is a two and three-dimensional
flight across the now destroyed living areas in Shanghai. |
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| Director's Biography |
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| Born in Shanghai, China in 1976 and
graduated at the School of Fine Art in Shanghai,
at the Villa Arson, France and the Fresnoy,
France, Zhenchen Liu's films have won many
awards and have screened in several
international film festivals. Currently he works as
a freelance artist in France and China. |
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| The Rights Angle 2009 |
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| The rapid urbanization of Shanghai has razed more urban area in the past thirty years than any nation in peacetime.
Caught in the middle are native Shanghainese who are being displaced in record numbers as their rights of residence and
representation continue to be denied by the Chinese government in the name of modernization and development. |
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Awards |
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The City of Neubrandenburg Award,
16th dokumentART, UK, 2007, Best
International Documentary, Santiago
International Short Film Festival, Chile,
2007, Best Short Film, 31st Sao Paulo
International Film Festival, Brazil 2007,
Best Experimental, 9th Aubagne
International Film festival, France, 2008
amongst many others. |
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Website |
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http://zhenchen.free.fr/ |
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Print Source |
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Zhenchen Liu
zhenchenliu@gmail.com
033-671782642 |
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