Director Wanma Caidan's posthumous work "Snow Leopard " will be released on April 3. The film has officially started pre-sales and a director's special has been released. Through light and shadow retrospection, and with a warm and narrated tone, it presents the inner journey of Wanma Tseden in creating the story of "Snow Leopard", and also reviews the Tibetan film world he has built over time along the way.
The film was inspired by a piece of news that Wanma Tseden accidentally learned. It took three years to complete the script and overcame difficult conditions such as the severe cold on the plateau to complete the filming. It tells the story of a snow leopard that broke into a herdsman's sheepfold and killed it. Nine goats were born, which triggered a story of conflict, opposition and mutual fetters between humans and leopards, humans and humans, starring Jinba, Xiong Ziqi, Cai Ding Tashi and others. The
director's special features a special review of Wanma Tseden's 7 films that won multiple international film festival awards from 2005's "The Silent Mani Stone" to 2020's "qi·ball". These films have witnessed Wanma Tseden uses unique narrative techniques and extreme camera scheduling to let the world re-understand the story of the plateau snowy areas.
"I have many stories and ideas in my heart, and I want to show a pure hometown." Wanma Caidan said that the special episode focused on the filming scene of the movie "Snow Leopard". Through these little-known behind-the-scenes content, we can see Wanma Caidan made repeated adjustments to the actor's subtle expressions and drinking water details, always putting creation first and using real images to talk to the world.
In addition, in order for the audience to better distinguish between "reality" and "hyperreality", the entire crew under the leadership of Wanma Tseden overcame many difficulties. After waiting for snow to no avail, they directly transported the snow to the ground from 70 kilometers away. After being transported back to the shooting camp, all the crew went to work artificially spreading snow to create the scene, and finally created a snow scene on the entire hillside during the shooting. Shooting in the snowy areas of the plateau has never been an easy task, but Wanma Tseden persisted for more than ten years, and it became a part of his life like breathing.
