Follow Your Heart: China's New Youth Movement

Independent Hip-Hop artists from large and small cities talk about their creative work and their increasingly widening influence in Chinese society.
Genre : Documentary
Follow Your Heart: China's New Youth Movement

A revealing documentary on the work and life of successful and independent Chinese Hip-Hop artists and their cultural influence in a society rapidly changing from communism to consumerism. Clashing with both traditional Chinese values and new modern ones, these artists believe that Hip-Hop allows for the expression of freedom and being true to oneself. Furthermore, the film describes the high optimism and convictions of this new generation that will inherit a political and economic superpower. Part of the H2ONewsreel collection.

Directors : Duncan Jepson
Markets : Documentary
Year Released : 2007
Running Time : 89
Country : China
Original Language : Mandarin/English

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Awards

Best Documentary, Urban Mediamakers Film Festival
Official Finalist Award, Las Vegas International Film Festival

Screenings

Hawaii International Film Festival
New Beijing International Movie Week
Black Soil Festival, The Netherlands
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Bayou Film Festival, Houston
Tiger Far East Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
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A revealing documentary on the work and life of successful and independent Chinese Hip-Hop artists and their cultural influence in a society rapidly changing from communism to consumerism. Clashing with both traditional Chinese values and new modern ones, these artists believe that Hip-Hop allows for the expression of freedom and being true to oneself. Furthermore, the film describes the high optimism and convictions of this new generation that will inherit a political and economic superpower. Part of the H2ONewsreel collection.

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