Yingying: Always gone, forever there
China DailyZhang Yingying - Life is too short to be ordinary. With a master's degree from the journalism school of Northwestern University, Shi, with her partner Sun Shilin, followed Hou and members of Zhang's family between July 2017 and September 2019, shooting 300 hours of footage that was eventually edited down to 98 minutes in a documentary titled Finding Yingying. Shi Jiayan and Sun Shilin - the two followed the Zhang family for two years between July 2017 and August 2019, shooting 300 hours of footages. This year Finding Yingying, Shi's debut feature documentary, was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Voice at the renowned South by Southwest Festival, an annual celebration of independent film and music in Austin, Texas, that was forced to cancel all its live events this year by the pandemic. "But to me, Yingying feels more like a friend than a victim, someone whose struggles, aspirations and self-doubt I share," says Shi, who has lent her own voice to the documentary by reading out excerpts from Zhang's diligently kept diary, words that anchor the movie emotionally and allow it to "forgo the whodunit trope and the lurid violence that characterizes the true crime genre", to quote one critic.
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