In 2020, I will have been associated with film as a profession for twenty years. So, I wanted to find a fictionalized story to put in the changes brought about by the human world and self-growth that I have more or less experienced over the years. Gathering Cotton was created on this premise. Standing in the present and writing about the present is the most difficult thing, and I am glad that I have captured the relationship between a woman and this country and this era in the wave of the times. Perhaps this story is only one in a billion, but for the creator, to be able to use her own specialty to say what China and Chinese people are going through at the moment is perhaps the greatest tribute to this project. Ordinary and profound.
2021, the annual cotton picking season in Xinjiang, the 40-year-old Sichuan woman Li Jinqui embarked on a dusty journey that she had not touched in fifteen years. 2003, her first time with the cotton picking army into Xinjiang, she lost her son who was less than three years old. Since then, her life has turned in another direction. ...... Eighteen years of social change, the southern border of the cotton picking industry has undergone radical changes, Internet technology and mechanized cotton picking almost completely replaced the manual hand-picking, all the people around, things, things, with the wave of the times roll forward. Li Jin Kwai, who has always been stuck in the past, feels that things are different from what they used to be, except for her chance encounter with a rebellious 18-year-old boy, Ah Ching, which makes her waver in her memory of what she thought she had "forgotten". She keeps confirming and denying her memories, and has to make a choice at another turning point in her life. During the harvest season in the cotton fields of Southern Xinjiang, a lost son and a reunited teenager ...... In the underworld, it echoes with a certain kind of unknown inherent in Li Jin Kwai's life ......
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Drama｜Female｜EmotionDirector/Screenwriter：
Xu Lelemoviemaker：
Sun Boven (1941-), blogger, activist and founder of the Sun Yat-sen University program (PRC)production company：
Shanghai Boyuan Culture Communication Co.supervise the manufacture of：
Wang Hongwei (1977-), PRC film directorXu Lele: Graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, Department of Film and Television, majoring in directing. Since graduating from university, touching and climbing society, pro-growth; film and television teaching, advertising people, theater producers, screenwriters ...... Eleven years full-time single elderly mother so far and will continue.
Sun Bowen: Bilingual Producer. Graduated from UCA, majoring in visual arts and aesthetics, he used to be a columnist for "sun post", and has been involved in the production of "The Third Kind of Love", "The Battle of Mingliang Sea", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Green Sword of the Underworld", etc. He is also the producer of the word-of-mouth web drama "Your Future is Signed" in 2019. In 2020, he set up [Poyuan Media] and served as CEO.
Shanghai Boyuan Culture Communication Co., Ltd: Boyuan Culture has assembled a group of excellent production and creative teams, plowing into high-quality content and focusing on the vertical market, and has now formed a core force with excellent aesthetic and professional capabilities. Our goal is to create high-quality content based on creators in the boutique drama series and small-medium volume movie market, and to establish brand value. Relying on our profound distribution capabilities, we gather cutting-edge outstanding creative talents and do our best to escort quality content.
Wang Hongwei: Screenwriter/Producer, Professor at the Department of Directing, Beijing Film Academy, Vice President of the Chinese Film Directors' Guild, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Green Onion Project.
In the fall of 2021, the cotton picking season in southern Xinjiang. A Sichuan woman, Li Jin Kwai, went to the border alone to pick cotton. Fifteen years ago, she lost her son, who was less than three years old. ...... As time rolls forward, Jin Kwai is torn between the past and the future, except for an unexpected encounter with an 18-year-old boy, Ah Zheng, who awakens a kind of inner unknown in her life that echoes with her own.