We greatly appreciate your coverage consideration. Interviews are available via zoom and in-person (dependent on travel in market). As you know film coverage/interviews from key media and reviews focused on filmmaking from dedicated film critics are a game changer for the release trajectory of an independent film. It is invaluable to help educate, entertain and reach a global audience, certainly when the films central figure, comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), who is very much the heart of the film, is currently being targeted --- harassed and having his work banned.
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“Eternal Spring (
長春
)” Scene Clip:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P1xPCGaMpJb7xQ_PJ--0pGDucobpmjOf/view?usp=sharing
Eternal Spring_Clip 3.mp4
A BOLD ACT: “Mr. White” describes preparations the night that he and other Falun Gong practitioners set out to hack into the state-run television signal to counter the official narrative about their spiritual practice. (© 2022 Lofty Sky Pictures)
“Eternal Spring ( 長春 )” Trailer Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QrvFbHprFpKfddNNX7ua-vhMmrmwkQSb?usp=sharing
“Eternal Spring ( 長春 )” Press Notes Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OfALFSZj993qV1arhp4fzi3mfiFvswrT?usp=sharing
“Eternal Spring ( 長春 )” Poster Art Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NU_3zmTKBh1bToVvnzEOuoqJS7COeukv?usp=sharing
“Eternal Spring ( 長春 )” Still Art Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NISVWqVY80JlD2tIvkrCcqbH0wUS9Cz4?usp=sharing
“Eternal Spring ( 長春 )” Logline: Confronted with government denunciations and human rights violations against their spiritual practice, a group of Chinese activists executes a bold and perilous plan to hack into state television.
“Eternal Spring ( 長春 )” Synopsis: In March 2002, a state TV signal in China is hijacked by members of banned spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal is to counter the government narrative about their practice.
In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening a violent repression. But his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, now living in Seoul, South Korea.
Combining present-day footage with 3D animation inspired by Daxiong’s art, Eternal Spring retraces the event on its 20th anniversary, and brings to life an unprecedented story of defiance, harrowing eyewitness accounts of persecution, and an exhilarating tale of determination to speak up for political and religious freedoms, no matter the cost.
Film Festivals/Awards Sampling:
- Thessaloniki Documentary Festival , Greece (Fischer Audience Award; “Human Values Award”)
- London Human Rights Watch , UK
- Movies That Matter , Netherlands (Grand Jury Documentary Award - Special Mention)
- Hot Docs , Canada (Audience Award, both overall and Canadian)
- Anifilm , Czech Republic
- New York Rights Watch Film Festival , USA
- Mammoth Lakes Film Fest , USA (Audience Award and Jury Award Best International Documentary)
- Krakow Film Festival , Poland (Finalist in Oscar-qualifying International Documentary Competition)
- Doc Edge Film Festival , New Zealand (Finalist in Oscar-qualifying International Documentary Competition)
- San Francisco Documentary Festival , USA (Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Activism Award)
- Lighthouse International Film Festival , USA (Jury and Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature)
- DeadCenter Film Festival , USA (Best Documentary Feature)
- Dances With Films , USA (Audience Award Best Documentary Feature)
- Supreme Jury Prize , Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
