Hua Hua
Hua-Hua is the fist documentary I have ever shot. It depicts the lives of three boys of the Lisu ethnicity in Nujiang, Yunnan. They are all orphans, raised up by their relatives with the help of the international none-profit program: Nujiang Fugong Foster Project North. I came to know them when I participated this program in January 2011.
The current version is an abridged edition of the full 30-minute documentary, which has been used as a publicity video for this program. Though it has not been officially published for the obvious consideration of the related government policy.
The documentary took place at the remote country Fugong. It is located in the Nujiang Valley and takes a three-day journey from the provincial capital of the Yunnan province. The landscape there is mountainous and the transportation is extremely inconvenient. The people there are mostly ethnic minority: Miao, Bai, Nu, Dulong, Dai and so on. Hence the culture and dialect are much different from other parts in China.
I have interviewed five Lisu ethnic teenagers with the help of the project leader Dagmar Sidle (in this version there are only three. They are Dengyenu, Duiyouzao and Huzhaosheng). In the documentary, they talk about their lives freely and share with me their personal feelings. I tried to introduce them as who they are, without any pre-judgment.
The name of this documentary is the pronunciation of Lisu words, meaning safe and lucky. It also sounds like flowers in Mandarin. Just like these three boys in the documentary: they have undergone enormous hardship and pain, but still remain colorful and smiley.
Nu Jiang, Angry River
Nu Jiang, Angry River, Yunnan, China,
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Dulong (simplified Chinese: 独龙语; traditional Chinese: 獨龍語; pinyin: Dúlóng) or Drung, Derung, Rawang, or Trung, is a Tibeto-Burman language in China. Speakers of Dulong are generally in all domains and all ages with positive attitudes. Dulong is closely related to the Rawang language of Myanmar (Burma). Although almost all ethnic Derung people speak the language to some degree, most are multilingual, also speaking Burmese, Lisu, and Mandarin Chinese except for a few very elderly people
Dulong is also called: Taron, Kiu, Qui, Kiutze, Qiuzi, Kiupa, Kiao, Metu, Melam, Tamalu, Tukiumu, Qiu, Nung, Nu-tzŭ.