Beijing News (Reporter Yang Feifei) In which country is the southern slope of Mount Everest located? Why can’t I fly to Mount Everest? Why should we set out at night to climb Mount Everest... On the afternoon of February 1, at the 21st Beijing News Young Journalists Activity, Fan Lixin, the director of the movie "The Invisible Peak", shared the story of his documentary filming with the young reporters. and feelings, using personal experience to send a message to young reporters to persevere in the things they love. No matter how hard they work, it doesn’t matter, there will always be gains.
information shows that Fan Lixin is one of the internationally acclaimed Chinese documentary film directors and producers. He has directed " On the Road to School ", " Return Train ", " Along the River ", "Let the World See Me" and many more. documentary. He is also the first Chinese director to win two U.S. Emmy Awards for Best Documentary and Best Long-form Business Report, and the first Chinese director to win the Ivens Award, the world's highest documentary award.
Fan Lixin communicated with young reporters from the Beijing News in class. Photographed by Beijing News reporter Yang Feifei
The film documentary "The Invisible Peak" tells the story of Zhang Hong, the first blind person in China to climb Mount Everest. He lost his sight at the age of 21, learned mountaineering at the age of 40, and climbed Mount Everest at the age of 46, becoming The first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to stand on the 8848.86-meter summit of Mount Everest. As the director of the film, Fan Lixin shared the filming story with young reporters.
Climbing from the south slope of Mount Everest, organizing daily supplies at the Everest base camp, cutting off hair to wash less and reduce the risk of illness... Fan Lixin introduced her life at the base camp and said that she should avoid climbing Mount Everest The sun sets out at around 11 o'clock in the evening until seven or eight o'clock the next morning. "Because we are walking on the glacier, after the sun comes out, the glacier is easy to melt or loosen, and even an avalanche occurs. So we climb at night to avoid The most dangerous time." Everest in the dim light of dawn, Mount Everest in the sky full of nebulae, snow-capped Mount Everest, unfathomable ice crevasses... During the narration, Fan Lixin showed a large number of pictures of Mount Everest to the young reporters. The young reporters were also deeply shocked and exclaimed from time to time.
Fan Lixin said that the filming period of this documentary film lasted two years, and 360 hours of video material was shot. It took a year to edit before it took shape. "During this process, what I felt most from Zhang Hong is that no matter how difficult the road is, we have to walk step by step."
The young reporters enthusiastically raised their hands to ask Fan Lixin questions. Photographed by Beijing News reporter Yang Feifei
After the lecture, the young reporters enthusiastically raised their hands and asked Fan Lixin questions. Young reporter Zheng Jinghao was the first to ask. She was curious about why Fan Lixin wanted to make a documentary; young reporter Zheng Jinzi wanted to ask Fan Lixin if he liked this job.
In this regard, Fan Lixin said that China's development is changing with each passing day, and new things happen every day. Documentaries can record what is happening and the people who do these things. Documentaries are a means of telling their stories, and they can tell a story Go into more detail. At the same time, he said that he enjoyed this job very much. "Making documentaries allows me to go to many different places and meet many amazing people. In the process, I will also gain a lot myself, and I will also gain a lot from it." Good works can be shared with more people."
In response to young reporter Yin Yunxin's question about which documentary made the deepest impression, and young reporter Liang Kexin's question about what difficulties she encountered in filming the documentary, Fan Lixin said that "The Return Train" filmed in 2009 was the most impressive. Unforgettable, "not because it won many awards, but because I think the protagonist of this documentary represents many people." He also said that the difficulties encountered in the filming of each documentary are different. The biggest difficulty was when filming on Mount Everest. It’s electricity, because the diesel from the diesel generator needs to be carried up bit by bit, and it can only be charged by solar energy. However, when climbing, we often don’t see the sun for three to five days and cannot collect enough electricity. “This is something we are relatively powerless to do, and it is a very important thing. Big question."
Finally, when answering the question of young reporter Guo Tianyi, "What is the next documentary shooting plan?" Fan Lixin revealed that he was planning to shoot a documentary related to underwater cities.
editor, Miao Chenxia
proofreader, Yang Xuli
