Scoop TV Interview With Up the Yangtze Director Yung Chang
Reporter Natasha Burling
Produced by Selwyn Manning
Up the Yangtze takes us on the surreal journey of China’s unfaltering drive towards modernity with two teenagers affected in different
ways by their nation’s ambition. The Three Gorges River is set to be flooded to create the world’s largest hydroelectric
power station, displacing two million people in the process.
Scoop TV interviews Up The Yangtze's director Yung Chang about the making of this film.
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Director: Yung Chang
Photography: Wang Shi Qing
Editor: Hannele Halm
Music: Oliver Alary
Starring: Cindy Yu Shu, Jerry Chen Bo Yu
Festivals: Vancouver, Amsterdam Documentary 2007; Sundance 2008
In English and Mandarin with English subtitles
93 minutes
The film’s website www.uptheyangtze.com compliments the film with maps, and historical and geographical information.
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