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International Premiere Shiny Stars, Rusty Red

Wide Angle

Family · Films about Film · History

CountryNorway,China
Production Year2003
Running Time60m
FormatBeta
ColorCOLOR

Program Note

China 2002. In this neon-decorated land of opportunities there are 400 million young people with aspirations. China may have changed since Chairman Mao′s day, but how much freedom do people really have?If art mirrors society, then perhaps the answers can be found in the dilemmas facing Wang Yuelan, an ambitious man who dreams of becoming a film director. Placing the need for artistic freedom above everything, Wang believes that only by surmounting increasingly difficult conditions will he find the opportunity to express attitudes that will resonate with his contemporaries. Wang is accompanied by a tough producer, a lovely girlfriend, strict parents, and a fortune teller. But is it enough?

Director

Elisabeth SJAASTAD

Elisabeth O. Sjaastad lived in China from 1997 until 2000. She studied directing at Beijing Film Academy and the Central Academy of Drama. While studying, she made the two short films ”Like Mother, Like Daughter” and ”Cash”, and directed and co-produced a production of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzuan”. ” With her own production company, Screen Stories, she made a short documentary “On Their Own But Not Alone” which aired on Norway’s leading commercial TV station, TV2, in February 2002.

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