Deer God

猎枪

Directed by Tomorrow Mingtian

Shorts Competition, Programmers' Picks / China, USA / 2016 / 14 mins / Chinese with English subtitles / Color / 2.35:1, D-Cinema

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Good Bones

CGV Cinemas 2
May 2, 2017 9:30 pm

Description

DEER GOD is a narrative short film dedicated to the brave Oroqen people, and the preservation to their way of life. A thesis film, it tells the story of the Oroqen people, a Chinese minority group of only 8,500 forced to give up their guns after thousands of years of hunting, because of the government’s gun-control policy. However, the gun has served as the cornerstone of the Oroqen’s life and culture for centuries. In the story of DEER GOD, a native Oroqen hunter, Old Guan, goes into the woods to shoot “donkey-deer” before his family leaves for America.

Director's Bio

Mingtian means “tomorrow” in Chinese. Mingtian recently graduated from the University of Miami’s Motion Pictures MFA program, after discovering her passion in narrative storytelling through images when studying Television Directing and Editing at Communication University of China. Mingtian shot her thesis film, DEER GOD, in minus 43 degrees F, long before she knew she would be heading to sunny L.A, where she currently resides.

Credits

Producers: Yao Li, Lingang Zhang
Director: Tomorrow Mingtian
Writers: Tomorrow Mingtian, Shuofang Wang
Cinematographer: Tianqi Wu
Sound Mixer: Junfeng Pei
Composer: Xueran Chen

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