张侨勇《沿江而上》
沿江而上
Up The Yangtze
片长(Lenght)： 93 mins
年份(Year of Production)：2007
导演(Director)：张侨勇Yung Chang
制片人(Producer)：Mila Aung-Thwin,John Christou,Germaine Ying Gee Wong
摄影(Cinematography)：汪士卿 Wang Shiqing
故事梗概：
一艘豪华邮轮沿着长江航行。与此同时，中国政府致力于在长江上建造一座世界上最大的大坝，而这也将是长城之后最巨大的工程。
本片用差不多四年时间记录了两个家庭背景不同的却同样出生在长江上游的年轻人在三峡工程的大背景下的生活变化。
余水是家里的长女，因为三峡工程她家不得不进行搬迁，这使得这个本来就不富裕的农民家庭的生活更加困难。余水在16岁时被迫辍学开始了自己的打工生活，她成为长江上一艘豪华观光邮轮的服务员。
与余水在同一个邮轮上工作的陈波宇则来自一个中产阶级的家庭。他是家里的独子，从小过着优越的生活，长相帅气并且有一颗追求成功的心。但是从小被娇生惯养的他在工作中屡屡碰壁……
Synopsis：
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." In the biggest engineering endeavour since the Great Wall, China has set out to harness the Yangtze with the world's largest mega-dam.
Meanwhile at the river's edge Yu Shui says goodbye to her family and turns to face the future. From their small patch of land, her parents watch the young woman walk away, her belongings clutched in a plastic shopping bag. The waters are rising.
The Three Gorges Dam, gargantuan and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic and disquieting feature documentary on life inside the 21st century Chinese dream.
Stunningly photographed and beautifully composed, Up the Yangtze juxtaposes the poignant and sharply observed details of Yu Shui's story against the monumental and ominous forces at work all around her.
Among the two million losing their livelihood to the dam, the Yu family must send their daughter off to work. In a bitter irony she's been hired by Farewell Cruises, part of the strange apocalyptic tourist trade that thrives along the river, offering a final glimpse of a legendary world before it disappears forever.
Life onboard mirrors the hierarchy of the wider world. Western passengers take in the spectral views, consuming entertainment on the spacious upper decks, while Yu Shui toils in the galley down below, vying with workmates for the few permanent positions. A shy country girl, she must compete with young show-offs like Chen Bo Yu, an urban kid with the over-confidence typical of single sons, the "little emperors" of China's one-child-only policy.
All the while the ship charts a course towards its controversial destination, travelling upriver through a landscape of unprecedented upheaval, as ancient and revered sites give way to the burgeoning candy-coloured towers of China's neon future. Back at the river's edge, far from the bright lights, Yu Shui's parents assemble their humble possessions as the floodwaters rise.
导演简历：
张侨勇是加拿大蒙特利尔的一位电影制片人。他在Montreal's Concordia University蒙特利尔协和大学取得电影制作的学位，并在New York's Neighborhood Playhouse(纽约街区大剧院)学习。
他的第一部纪录片《
Bio-filmography of Director:
Yung Chang is a Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal. He has a degree in film production from Montreal's Concordia University and has studied the Meisner technique at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse.
His first documentary film, Earth To Mouth, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, won praise for its beautifully crafted meditation on food production and migrant labour. He displays a remarkable sense of cinematic storytelling in his first feature-length documentary, Up the Yangtze, in which the contested Three Gorges Dam forms an unsettling backdrop to a richly detailed narrative of life inside contemporary China.
该影片曾经参加的影展和获奖经历(Previous or Coming Film festivals and Awards)：