Working from over 300 hours of on-the-ground footage, filmmaker Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight) assembles a multifaceted look at Wuhan during the first stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, when its nine million residents spent two and a half months under strict lockdown. Besides the doctors and nurses at the front lines of the pandemic, Chang highlights less familiar elements like a furloughed father-to-be serving as a volunteer driver for essential workers, or the ad hoc community that springs up inside a makeshift hospital. Never flinching from the physical and mental toll but shot through with warmth and humor, WUHAN WUHAN is an invaluable record of one city’s experience with the unprecedented. — Josh Martin, Features Programmer
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DIRECTOR: Yung Chang
PRODUCERS: Donna Gigliotti, Peter Luo, Diane Quon
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Donnie Yen, Cheng Yang, Yuki Zhang
EDITORS: Zimo Huang, Evita Yuepu Zhou
MUSIC: Hualun
LENGTH: 90 min
LANGUAGES: Mandarin with English subtitles
COUNTRY: U.S. | Canada
GENRE: Observational Documentary
ACCOLADES/FESTIVALS
2021 Hot Docs Festival
2021 DOXA Documentary Film Festival
2021 Milwaukee Film Festival
2021 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
2021 CAAMFest
2021 Doc Edge Film Festival