China and Nepal can collaborate to make films: Chinese filmmakers

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, June 6: Lu Yiyan, an experienced Chinese filmmaker, has said that Nepal is rich in exemplary beautiful places in the world, and filmmakers can have adequate places to film documentaries and movies in this beautiful country.

Lu, who was recently in Kathmandu to participate in the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF), shared with the Gorkhapatra, sister publication of this daily, that Nepali feature films and documentaries reflect geography, human nature and other aspects of entire South Asia.

Lu is a producer and director from the China Intercontinental Communication Centre. His latest projects include Discovery Channel’s documentary The Very Edge of China Imagination and First Man Out, Nat Geo’s documentary Homestay China, short documentary series China Icons Season 1、2、 3 and Day and Night in Xizang. These projects had won the Asian Television Award, the annual promotion of SARFT, and the best documentary award of the Chinese Documentary Festival.

 Although Nepal and China have been in diplomatic relations for 70 years, the two countries have had a long history of mutual relations. Exchanges in diverse fields, including trade, art, culture, and more, have further deepened the friendship between the two countries, he said.

According to Lu, KIMFF is an excellent platform. “It has been providing platforms to all types of filmmakers and producers,” he said. 

Stating that he has watched many Nepali documentaries, the Chinese filmmaker said that Nepal is rich in resources and he wanted to make documentaries in collaboration with Nepali filmmakers.  

Yan Zhanling, producer of CCTV4, China Media Group (CMG), documentary filmmaker, was also in Kathmandu to participate in the KIMFF. 

His works include Roof of the World, At the Foot of the Tian Shan, Beyond Shangri-La, Macao 20 Years, Tibet: Tashi Delek, A Leap Across Millennia, Where the Mighty Rivers Begin, Youthful Xizang, The Great Wall, and 25 Years: The Lotus Blossoms.

Like Lu, Yan also stressed the need for cultural exchange between Nepal and China. 

He said, “Festivals like KIMFF increase cultural communication among the nation. They are means for cultural exchanges.” 

Yan has been making documentaries for two decades and said that Nepal and China could collaborate to make documentaries and films.