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4 December, 2012
Dim Sum TV’s Savoir-faire Guangdong Wins 3rd Prize in
the City Image Publicity Film Category at the Guangzhou
International Documentary Film Festival
On December 3, the 10th Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China (GZ DOC), jointly organized by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) and the People’s Government of Guangdong Province, officially opened at the Guangzhou Friendship Theater. The annual event is the only state-level professional documentary film festival in the country and the largest of its kind in Asia. On Guangdong Day of the festival, Dim Sum TV’s documentary series Savoir-faire Guangdong won 3rd Prize in the City Image Publicity Film category.
The guests of honour at the opening ceremony. From left to right: Mr. Wan Qingliang, Secretary of the Municipal Committee of the CPC of Guangzhou; Mr. Zhang Pimin, Deputy Director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television; Mr. Tuo Zhen, Deputy Director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Provincial Committee of Guangdong Province; Mr. Lin Shaochun, Vice-Governor of Guangdong Province.
The 5-day event attracted a total of 1,488 entrants from 65 countries and regions around the world. This year’s event saw the introduction of the Golden Kapok Award. A Bite of China, China Heavyweight and Five Broken Cameras were among the 13 local and foreign documentaries that were honored with 9 different awards, including the Grand Jury Prize and Best Documentary Prize.
The opening ceremony and award presentation ceremony of the GZ DOC
The Guangdong Day award ceremony of the GZ DOC was held on December 4 at Guangdong Television. Since its introduction in 2007, Southern School Documentary has become an important category of Guangdong Day. The category aims at broadening the international exposure of local broadcasters and promoting international cultural exchange by recognizing excellence in documentary filmmaking. It also serves as a showcase for the long cultural heritage of the southern Guangdong region and the province’s achievements in economic and social development. To encourage diversity in the efforts to cultivate southern Guangdong as a distinct cultural brand in film and television, this year’s Southern School Documentary was augmented by 2 new categories: City Image Publicity Film and Guangdong Intangible Cultural Heritage Film Series. Savoir-faire Guangdong, the Dim Sum TV documentary series, won 3rd Prize in the former category. Ms. Ceci Chuang, Vice President of Dim Sum TV and Executive Producer of Savoir-faire Guangdong, received the award on behalf of the TV network.
Ms. Ceci Chuang of Dim Sum TV, 3rd from left, being presented with the award
Savoir-faire Guangdong is a short film series that serves as vehicle for articulating the essence of Guangdong culture. By giving center stage to 21 key figures and themes, the show plumbs the depths of the southern Guangdong cultural inheritance and examines the deeper meaning, value and spirit of these cultural icons. In doing so, it sheds new light on the genius of southern Guangdong and its influential place in China’s cultural oeuvre. The 21 episodes cover The Kaiping Diaolou, Cantonese Herbal Tea, Hakka Enclosed Dwellings, Zhaoqing Ink-Stones, The Sixth Patriarch Huineng, Hong Kong’s Temple Street, Chaozhou Woodcarving, Guangzhou’s Shamian, Lin Zexu, In Search of Yao People’s Roots, Guangzhou Chan’s Hall Square, The Trams of Hong Kong, Cantonese Opera Artist Ma Shizeng, Chao Embroidery, Nanxiong Zhuji Lane, Foshan Lion Dance, Kong Youwei, Hakka Cuisine, Fishermen’s Songs of Huidong, South Sea Mortuary Temple and Guangzhou’s Yellow Flower Hill. By mining this cultural lexicon of people, places and customs, the show extracts the essence of the new Guangdong culture. In doing so, it seeks to restore a cultural accord to a new generation that is native to both Guangdong and the Global Village, and provide for the audience a vicarious experience in re-learning and re-inheriting the substance of a unique cultural edifice.
The winners in the Guangdong Day Southern School Documentary category. In the front row, 7th from right, is Ms. Ceci Chuang.
The winners in the 2012 Southern School Documentary category, including the Outstanding Documentary, City Publicity Documentary and Travel Documentary, will be broadcast on the many overseas channels of GDTV WORLD.
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