Martial arts superstar Donnie Yen is set as executive producer of cinema-verite style documentary “Wuhan! Wuhan!” which chronicles a day-and-a-half in the life of the Chinese city where the earliest proven cases of Covid-19 were found.
The film is produced by Donna Gigliotti alongside Peter Luo of financier Starlight Media, and Huan Li.
It is co-directed by renowned Chinese documentary director Gong Cheng and award-winning documentary director Yung Chang. They deployed a team of 30 to film along volunteers, medical workers and patients.
Characters who emerge through the web of factual narrative include: a volunteer driver who gives free rides to medical workers; a barber who volunteers to serve medical workers for free; a video blogger who delivers medicine to patients; a psychotherapist who provides counselling to coronavirus patients; a medical waste disposal supervisor; and doctors who dash between emergency rooms.
Producers say the film is intended to “capture the most...
The film is produced by Donna Gigliotti alongside Peter Luo of financier Starlight Media, and Huan Li.
It is co-directed by renowned Chinese documentary director Gong Cheng and award-winning documentary director Yung Chang. They deployed a team of 30 to film along volunteers, medical workers and patients.
Characters who emerge through the web of factual narrative include: a volunteer driver who gives free rides to medical workers; a barber who volunteers to serve medical workers for free; a video blogger who delivers medicine to patients; a psychotherapist who provides counselling to coronavirus patients; a medical waste disposal supervisor; and doctors who dash between emergency rooms.
Producers say the film is intended to “capture the most...
- 6/23/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
A feature documentary is in the works, Wuhan! Wuhan!, which promises to offer a uniquely comprehensive insight into the Chinese city that was the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.
Peter Luo, CEO of Starlight Media which has backed Crazy Rich Asians and Midway, is putting together the U.S.-China co-production with Oscar-winning producer Donna Gigliotti, superstar actor Donnie Yen, alongside Peter Luo and Huan Li (Road of Millennium Bodhi).
Chinese documentary directors Gong Cheng (A Bite Of China) and Yung Chang (Up The Yangtze) are helming the project, which will follow 36 hours in the lives of disparate characters living through the outbreak. The production say that a team of more than 30 people have been on the front line to film alongside volunteers, medical workers and patients. It promises to be a “cinema-verité examination of life inside Wuhan”.
Luo said, “The film will show how people fight,...
Peter Luo, CEO of Starlight Media which has backed Crazy Rich Asians and Midway, is putting together the U.S.-China co-production with Oscar-winning producer Donna Gigliotti, superstar actor Donnie Yen, alongside Peter Luo and Huan Li (Road of Millennium Bodhi).
Chinese documentary directors Gong Cheng (A Bite Of China) and Yung Chang (Up The Yangtze) are helming the project, which will follow 36 hours in the lives of disparate characters living through the outbreak. The production say that a team of more than 30 people have been on the front line to film alongside volunteers, medical workers and patients. It promises to be a “cinema-verité examination of life inside Wuhan”.
Luo said, “The film will show how people fight,...
- 6/23/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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