Foggy Valley

霧谷

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For years, urban people have seen the mountain country as a pure wonderland. When they get bored with the city, they visit the mountains and enjoy the hospitality of the ethnic minorities there. The director and cameraman go to the mountains with the typical expectations of urban people — that the local ethnic minority people are supposed to prepare meals for them, and that local labor should be cheap.

Behind “Foggy Valley” lie the stories of Chinese country villages which are undergoing transformation.

Region of Origin

Year of Release

2003

Duration

44 minutes

Format

Betacam, Color

Directors

Chou Yue-Jun

Documentary producer for Kun Ming Television, engaged in documentary production since 1991. As a producer who puts his ideals in his documentary films, Jhou focuses his films on Yun Nan, especially on the ethnic minority Yi Yi people's situation In contemporary, ever-transforming Yun Nan. He believes that “people are eternal attraction of documentary film.”