Ordos-linked short documentaries scoop awards

Two powerful short documentaries featuring real local characters as well as real incidents in Ordos in northern China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region -- She dresses it green and Big scissors, small scissors -- triumphed recently in a top competition, according to local officials.

The two productions stood out from 102 documentaries filmed by young people from 38 countries to win the second and third prizes, respectively, of the "Looking China" Golden Lenses Awards, local media reported on Dec 6.

From the launch ceremony of the event on April 9 to the exhibition ceremony on July 7, "Looking China" lasted for 90 days, bringing together 102 young foreign directors from 42 universities in 38 countries and presenting 102 short films.

Sponsored by Beijing Normal University's Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture and the Huilin Foundation, it was the fourth time that the “Looking China” Golden Lenses Awards invited youth film directors to film in Ordos.

The two award-winning documentaries tell the stories of a tree-planting woman in Ordos's Uxin Banner's Maowusu Desert and a famous local paper-cutting artist.

The "Looking China" Golden Lenses Award is a cross-regional and cross-cultural project to give young filmmakers opportunities to experience Chinese culture, tell Chinese stories and convey cultural images through the perspectives and lenses of foreign youth. It has been successfully held nine times from 2011 to 2019.