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Super, Girls!
73 minutes Documentary / Educational / Foreign / IndieFlix Official Selections
The tale of ten female teenagers on their quest to become instant superstars on China's biggest television show.
Intended Audience: Family
“As entertaining as it is revelatory” – Ronnie Scheib, Variety
SUPER, GIRLS! follows ten female teenagers on their quest to become instant superstars on China’s biggest television show.
The Chinese equivalent of “American Idol,” the “Super Girls Singing Contest” spawned an unprecedented pop culture phenomenon. Drawing over 400 million viewers, the show’s runaway popularity spurred the Chinese government to ban it after only two seasons.
The film provides unparalleled, intimate access into the contestants’ lives over several months. Through candid interviews and footage of nail-biting auditions and competitions, SUPER, GIRLS! offers a fascinating look inside what the Chinese media have dubbed “the Lost Generation” and their startling takes on sexuality and success in the new China.
Jian Yi is an independent filmmaker, visual artist and writer based in Beijing, China. He is one of the three Chinese national finalists selected by the British Council for its 2007 International Young Film Entrepreneur of the Year award. He has worked as a filmmaker and senior art consultant for a number of European Union projects in China. In 2005-06, he partnered with premier documentary filmmaker Wu Wenguang to launch the China Villager Documentary Project. Jian’s photos on China’s village governance toured the nation’s seven provinces as well as the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels and the European Parliament in Strasburg. He is a Starr Foundation Fellowship grantee (’07-‘08) under the New York-based Asian Cultural Council, a Fellow (’08-’10) of the India-China Fellowship at the New School, NY, USA, and a Visiting Fellow (‘07) at Cambridge University, UK.
- Directed by: JIAN Yi
- Written by: JIAN Yi
- Produced by: JIAN Yi
- Run Time: 73 minutes
- Release Date: 2007
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Country:
United States of America
- Intended Audience: family
- Website Super, Girls!
Written by JIAN Yi
Produced by JIAN Yi
Cast
Variety | http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939846.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
DGF Docs | http://www.dfgdocs.com/Resources/Articles/97.aspx
This documentary gives the girls so much room to express themselves without contrasting their views with their parents' or their teachers' views. It is rare and certainly delightful to hear young girls of 18 years of age or so to open themselves up in front of the camera. You will feel very close to them by listening to them talk and looking at them act in "Super, Girls!" They are, after all, China's Y-Generation. Yes, there is a lot more we can discuss about them.
Super, Girls! is such an inspiring film. The lengths that these girls go to just to have a chance at a dream of theirs is so courageous and challenges yourself to think about what you would do for the chance of a lifetime. Super Girls is one of my favorite documentaries...it's so entertaining while still being informative, something many documentaries today fail to be.