The Hunter (c) Magnolia Pictures
Villagers in central China confront a chemical company that is poisoning their land and water in this rare portrait of grassroots activism in contemporary China. When his own fields could no longer be farmed, Zhang Gongli filed a lawsuit against the polluting factory. After he lost, he initiated a stubborn, and often dangerous, campaign for justice. The Warriors of Qiugang follows Zhang and his allies in the village as they petition Beijing, recruit support from the local media, reach out for help from a local NGO and make contact with environmental activists from across China. The film’s intimacy leads us past the headlines and clichés about modern China to offer a memorable portrait of villagers wrestling with, and transformed by, China’s headlong rush into modernity. In Chinese with English subtitles. Directed by Ruby Yang. Produced by Thomas Lennon. 2011 Academy Award Nominee, Documentary Short Film.
Introduced and moderated by Jennifer Turner, Director, China Environment Forum, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Discussion with Kristen McDonald, Director, China Program for Pacific Environment, follows screening.
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