Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

July 2 - 10, 2010

The Old Fool Who Moved the Mountains
Yugong Yishan

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Colour, HD CAM
China, Thailand, Philippines, 2008, 30 min
EP – European premiere
Section: Documentary Films in Competition
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Film screenings:
4C5 - 6.7., 15:30, Čas Cinema
5K4 - 7.7., 19:00, Panasonic Cinema

Film will be screened with films: Lessons from the Night, Till It Hurts

Director: Joanna Vasquez Arong
Screenplay: Joanna Vasquez Arong
Dir. of Photography: Guillaume Vandenberghe
Music: Cédric Murrath
Designer: Joanna Vasquez Arong
Editor: Joanna Vasquez Arong, Lee Chatametikool
Producer: Joanna Vasquez Arong
Production: Old Fool Films
Sales: Strategy613

Synopsis

An ancient Chinese fable about a man whose perseverance allowed him to move a mountain. One of the stories in the Little Red Book which Mao required everyone to memorize during the Cultural Revolution. The name of an independent music bar in Beijing, in which owner Gouzi introduces unknown bands that are worthy of attention. All three are Yugong Yishan: “the old fool who moved the mountains”. Across three generations, the director contextualizes a disparate trio of meanings within a timeless story about the kind of modest eccentricity that can change the world through patience and diligence.

About the director

Joanna Vasquez Arong became a documentary filmmaker in her native Philippines. Following studies at foreign universities, she moved to Beijing in 2002 where she now works as a freelance filmmaker. After two short documentaries, she shot her feature film debut, Neo-Lounge (2007), which world premiered in the documentary competition at the 42nd KVIFF. The movie subsequently made the rounds of twenty festivals, winning four awards.

Film Guests

Joanna Vasquez Arong

Contacts

Strategy613
21-01 CRC Tower, All Seasons Place, 87 Wireless Road, 10330 Bangkok
Thailand
Tel: +66 2 654 1415
Fax: +66 2 654 1416
E-mail: ann@strategy613.com