Jiang Hu: Life on the Road

Jiang Hu

China

1999

150 Min

Color

Mandarin

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“Jiang hu” translated directly from Chinese to English is “river” and “lake”. In Chinese, it means “the world out of home”, or “on the road”. Jiang Hu is about the story of a performing group of farmers on tour. The boss is Old Liu, who took his two sons, their girlfriends and some young farmers to tour. They want to change their existing conditions and make their fortune in the large cities, but they have always been refused. Jiang Hu was awarded the Jan Vrijman Fund for the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 1999. —Chinese Independent Documentary Film Archive

Director

Wu Wenguang

Wu Wenguang (吴文光) was born in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province in 1956. After graduating from high school in 1974, Wu was sent to the countryside where he worked as a farmer for a year, and as an elementary school teacher for three years. Between 1978 and 1982, he studied Chinese Literature at Yunnan University. After Wu got his Bachelor’s degree, he went on to teach at a junior high school for three years. In 1985, he started working in television as a journalist for three years. Wu left television and moved to Beijing in 1988 to be an independent documentary filmmaker, freelance writer and creator and producer of the dance performance group Living Dance Studio. —Chinese Independent Documentary Archive