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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Chinese films win big at Chicago Film Fest

Xinhua, October 25, 2015 

Emerging Chinese director Song Pengfei could hardly believe that his first try at film directing would turn out to be an immediate success. At Friday night, amid applause and enthusiasm, Song, director of a movie entitled "Underground Fragrance," came to the stage at the Peninsula Hotel, Chicago, a city in the U.S. state of Illinois, to claim Gold Hugo for New Directors at the 51st Chicago International Film Festival. "Underground Fragrance" is a feature film presenting ordinary people striving to move up in today's China. Song was joined by Song Zhantao, director of the documentary "In the Underground," which tells about the lives of miners in north China's Hebei Province, who won the Silver Hugo Award for the documentary, and Jia Shaowei, producer of "In the Underground." The two Songs are not related. "I'm mesmerized by the film," said Claudia Landsberger, jury of New Directors Competition, referring Song Pengfei's feature film "Underground Fragrance." "When you watch the movie, you can actually feel it, smell it. It's your life there," she said. "When the film ends, you want to know what happened to the people afterwards." Landsberger said the film tells so much about modern China and it's amazing that such a film is from a new director.

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