NID student among 3 selected from India for Looking China Youth Film Project

Three students from India returned on Thursday, June 20 after participating in a fortnight long annual cu ltural youth exchange programme Looking China Youth Film Project held in Shandong province under the supervision of professor Arun Gupta, principal faculty, film and video, NID.

This was the professor’s third annual visit to China as part of the project and this time he visited in the capacity of overall faculty supervisor of 10 foreign students invited from Brazil, India, South Africa and Russia.
The subjects of the documentaries made by these students ranged from a one-legged award winning cyclist, a village opera, a museum of old rural objects to the ceremonies in the biggest Confucius temple in China, a young modern woman running a traditional school and fishermen celebrating aquatic life through song and dance among others.
While NID’s M Design student Rahul made a 10-minute documentary titled ‘Under the Ginkgo Tree’, SRFTI, Kolkata students Pragadeesh Marimuthu and Jayabrata Das’s documentaries were titled ‘Unbroken Wheels’ and ‘The One Who Stayed’.
Talking to Ahmedabad Times after returning from China, professor Gupta said he was proud to have been associated with the project where he got a chance to chisel students’ talent.
“Rahul’s documentary is about a 3,000 years old tree and life under and around it from dawn to dusk. There are many people who visit the tree throughout the day for getting their wishes fulfilled with many of them tying red and gold ribbons around the tree for passing an exam or finding a bride or buying a home and the documentary captures that,” Gupta elaborated.