The documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind”
June 13 is Cultural and Natural Heritage Day. The documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” jointly produced by China and France held a “cloud launch” ceremony in Beijing and Paris.
Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee, Director of the Central Radio and Television Station and Editor-in-Chief Shen Haixiong and Minister of the French Ministry of Culture F. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksLank List jointly announced the launch of the project
Attendant to this “cloud launch” ceremony were also attended by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azule, French Ambassador to China, Luo Liang, member of the editorial meeting of China Central Radio and Television, as well as experts, scholars from China and France and members of the film’s creative team.
20Babaylan21 is the 100th anniversary of the excavation of the “Beijing People” site in Koudian, and it is also the Chinese and French cultural tourism year. In order to enable China and the world to understand the major journey of ancient human development and evolution and show China’s prehistoric history, the China Radio and Television Station Film and Television Documentary Center and the French State Television Group jointly produced the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind”, and plans to launch it as an event project for the Sino-French Cultural Tourism Year, and will be launched in December 2021. At that time, the documentary film will be broadcast simultaneously in major theaters around the world, French National Television II and the Central Station Documentary Channel.
The epidemic cannot hinder cultural cooperation
China and France “cloud” civilization exchanges
Since this year, the heads of state of China and France have spoken four times.
On June 5, Chinese President Xi Jinping and FrancePresident Macron emphasized on the phone: “In the face of the epidemic, unity and cooperation are the right way. China and France must continue to jointly support the international community in unity in fighting the epidemic and make ‘China-France contribution’ to the world’s final victory over the epidemic.”
Cultural heritage cooperation has always been the most dynamic highlight of the cultural relations between China and France. How can we strengthen cooperation and make “China-France contributions” in this regard? The main creative team of the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” did not prepare for the rain, adjust their work ideas in a timely manner, make full use of the Internet to communicate in the “cloud”, promote the preparation and implementation of the project, and build a new bridge for Sino-France cultural exchanges under the epidemic.
Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee, Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Central Committee, Shen Haixiong
Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee, Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Central Committee, Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Central Committee, In his speech, Shen Haixiong said: “The strong wind knows the strong grass, and the flames show real gold. The friendship between China and France has been tested. We must deepen exchanges and cooperation, find the cultural origin of human beings, and build a spiritual fortress for human civilization in the face of the epidemic. “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” tells the story of exchanges and mutual learning in civilizations, emphasizes co-construction and sharing, and is in line with the current propositions, and has the temperament and humanistic pursuit of the times. It is of great enlightenment for the people of China and France and the people all over the world who are experiencing the epidemic.”
French Minister of Culture Frank List
French Minister of Culture Frank List delivered a speech by Frank ListFrank List, President of the French Ministry of Culture Frank List, said that the production of this video cannot be separated from the close cooperation between China and France, and he wants to Cinema>Salute to this thriving cultural cooperation. “These cooperation gives everyone the opportunity to understand the thousands of KomiksThe relationship between mankind has surpassed national boundaries over the past few years. The basis of France-China relations is that we have a common belief. I firmly believe that this documentary film will surely be successful.”
“cross-screen” deep integration
Create documentary film quality
In the era of media integration, it is the strategic goal of China Central Radio and Television.
Among these, the China Television Documentary Center is committed to producing more exquisite documentaries with profound thoughts, exquisite art and excellent production. This time, we cooperated with the French State Television Group to create the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” which is a meaningful exploration of the two sides’ “cross-screen” integration and combining their respective advantageous resources. UNESCO also has high hopes for this documentary film. Director-General Audrey Azulei said: “The site of ZhoukouBabaylan store witnesses the evolution of humans and human society. UNESCO attaches great importance to scientific discovery and international cooperation. The achievements of these two undertakings have renewed our understanding of the evolution of humans in space and time. This film is an adventure, with great ambition to combine rigorous scientific research with mass communication. It is our common story and a beautiful epic.”
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azule
French Ambassador to China Luo Liang said in his speech that this film will give more viewers the opportunity to understand the wonderful history of the “Beijing people”. The archaeological achievements of the scientists’ sites are very significant, and will reveal more secrets of human evolution to people. France is proud to participate in the production of this documentary film.
French Ambassador to China Luo Liang
The Film and Television Documentary Center of China Central Radio and Television is trying to explore a new path for documentary media integration with “cross-screen”. This fusion must form high-quality content. Xue Jijun, a member of the editorial meeting of China Central Radio and Television, said, “This cooperation between China and FranceThe filming of the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” is a good opportunity for the two countries to strengthen exchanges and mutual understanding of civilizations. We hope that both China and France will jointly build the film into a scientific, rigorous, real and moving, caring for mankind, observing the world, and a pioneering work in the field of humanities. ”
A record of the editorial meeting of the China Central Radio and Television Corporation Cinema member Xue Jijun
What will happen if the film goes to the big screen? Catherine Alevares, head of the documentary program at the French National Television Group, said: “With the help of various technologies and image synthesis, we can create very realistic and exquisite videos. This video will truly reproduce the footprints of China’s earliest primitive humans, how they invented the tools, how their brains evolved, and thus became modern humans. So this will be a new chapter, a prehistoric China you don’t know about. ”
Catherine Alevares, head of the documentary program of the French State Television Group
Schematic diagram of Beijingers hunting
Tracing the origin of ancient civilizations
Exploring the origin of mankind
In 1921, href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks Two ancient human teeth were found in Zhoukoudian, Beijing. The research and discovery here have laid the foundation for the birth of the discipline of Chinese paleoanthropology.
BeijingThe excavation site of Renzhoukoudian site
And on December 2, 1929, the skull of Peking Man discovered here opened a new era of ancient human research in the world.
Excavation site of Zhoukoudian site in Beijing
In 1987, the Zhoukoudian site was included in the World Cultural Heritage List by UNESCO.
ZhoukoudianCinema Site
Deng Tao, director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced: “Generations of scholars from different countries have conducted many aspects of research on Zhoukoudian’s fossils, which has had a profound impact on the research on human evolution in East Asia and even the entire human evolution, and has continuously improved and portrayed the context of human evolution in East Asia.”
Director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Deng Tao
Excavating the history of human beings and traces the origins of ancient civilizations. “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” will use the latest scientific research results and the latest scientific and technological means of China and France to reproduce the magnificent prehistoric stories of the “Beijing People” in Asia, and present the research results of scholars through video.
This documentary will be directed by the famous French documentary director Jacques Marat, and will invite the famous French paleoanthropologist Yves Coben as the chief writer and scientific consultant. The documentary “Odyssey of a Species”, “Homo Homo sapiens” and “The Rise of Humanity” jointly completed by the two of them once won the love of 800 million viewers around the world.
Jacques Marat, chief director of “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind”
Yves Coben was the discoverer of the early human fossil “Lucy”, who had formed an indissoluble bond with China and the “Beijing people” very early. 40 years ago, he visited China and participated in the scientific expedition work of the Zhoukoudian site with his team.
The chief writer and scientific consultant of “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” and scientific consultant Cinema Asked Yves Coben
Why did Babaylan focus on human evolutionary history again after nearly 20 years? Chief writer Yves Coburn said that this is because with the advancement of science, we know much more now than we did back then. The origin of studying human history is to send messages to all mankind, because humans are essentially family. We share a common history, regardless of nationality or culture.
Human evolution map
The documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of the Human Class” will be released in 2021, revealing the ancient href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe major process of human development and evolution, transcending civilizational barriers through civilized exchanges, transcending civilizational conflicts through mutual learning, and transcending civilizational superiority through civilized coexistence. It will write a new chapter in Sino-France cultural exchanges and cooperation.
“Beijing People: The Last BabaylanSecret” Cloud Launch Ceremony