On the evening of October 29th, the award ceremony of the 9th International Micro-Film Festival for University Students was held in Yinchuan. The DNUI team led by Ma Haoyuan, a Film Photography and Production graduate, stood out from more than 5,000 entries from over 240 colleges and universities at home and abroad, and won the only best production award. DNUIers were honored with the award on the same stage with students from top media, film and television colleges and universities at home and abroad, such as Beijing Film Academy, New York Film Academy and Shanghai Theater Academy. The prize-winning work, The Sea Cucumber Fisher of Xiaolou Island, is a documentary instructed by Xiu Xinxin and Wang Linlin, teachers from the Department of Film Photography and Production of the School of Digital Arts and Design. Ms. Xiu and Ms. Wang won the Best Instructor Award as a result.

Clips of The Sea Cucumber Fisher of Xiaolou Island

This award marks the third consecutive year that DNUI Film Photography and Production majors have won in international competitions. The Sea Cucumber Fisher of Xiaolou Island is one of the film series of the brand "Xiaolou Island", a commercial project based on school-enterprise cooperation. The project, combined with professional teaching reform and fully integrated into the practice of comprehensive training courses and graduation design, has been awarded excellent graduation design of Film Photography and Production in 2020. Li Jining, Deputy Dean of the School of Digital Arts and Design as well as Director of the Department of Film Photography and Production, is responsible for the overall planning of the project. Xiu Xinxin is in charge of the instruction and implementation work. Zhang Yun, Li Lin, and Wang Linlin have provided assistance as course instructors. In addition, Han Tao, General Manager and Instructor of DNUI school-level entrepreneurship projects, and Xiu Yongzhi, General Manager and Corporate Instructor have provided guidance as well. Seniors of Film Photography and Production, Ma Haoyuan, Zhang Hexiang, Yang Jiaming, Lv Yue, Liu Bing etc. have formed the team and completed the project in cooperation. The project not only embodies the novel cross-class, cross-technology, and cross-disciplinary ideas of liberal arts, but also reflects the key points of practical teaching reforms such as multi-teacher guidance and school-enterprise joint guidance.

Ms. Xiu Xinxin Being Awarded the Best Instructor

Official List of Individual Awards Winners

Ma Haoyuan (3rd from left) and the Award Presenter

The project follows the time and meets the market demand. For the first time, it employs the full production plan of film and television brand advertising comprehensively, including brand feature films, brand documentaries, film advertisements, animation short films, new media advertisements, AR (Augmented Reality) film advertisements etc. In production, it combines GoPro underwater shooting, aerial shooting, time-lapse shooting and other novel film and television techniques to record the daily life of the sea cucumber fisher Wang Shun on an uninhabited island through documentary lens language. The film reveals the crystal clear seawater and the natural ecological environment at 39° north latitude of the Chinese border from various perspectives. What it reflects is the diligent and courageous people of the island and their enterprising spirit of using wisdom to create wealth. In face of disadvantageous conditions such as fresh water shortage and insufficient electricity, the team members have worked together to overcome difficulties and successfully completed the shooting. Currently, the complete content of the project is being displayed at the "Golden Autumn" Campus Cultural Festival of the School of Digital Arts and Design.

Highlights on the Film Set

This year marks the 9th of the International Micro-Film Festival for University Students. With its influence increasing day by day, the festival has become a stage for cultivating film and television talents, creating film and television masterpieces, promoting exchanges and interactions in the industry, and fulfilling the dreams of young people. The review board of the competition adopts a combination of "online + offline" methods to carry out the selection. The excellent works in the festival will be displayed, recommended and promoted on TV and websites.

DNUIers and the Distinguished Artist Jiang Kun at the Ceremony

photography have emerged as a new field, a new format, and a new fashion, thus their application to the specialty construction of colleges and universities can be desirable exploration and innovation.