Documentaries add sparkle to country's film industry, says report
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Guo says that his next film will also be a documentary, as "the power of truth in documentaries is overwhelming".
Another industry highlight last year was the global outreach of Chinese documentaries.
In 2017, Chinese documentary makers continued to team up with global partners to reinvent the style and substance of documentary storytelling.
China: Time of Xi, a three-episode television series on China's policies and their impact over the past five years, is a case in point.
The series, co-produced by China Intercontinental Communication Center, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific and Meridian Line Films, was aired across around 30 countries and regions in October.
On CGTN's YouTube channel, the documentary received more than 274,000 hits and 770 comments.
The television series features President Xi Jinping's undertakings and philosophies, such as targeted poverty alleviation, supply-side structural reform and the Belt and Road Initiative.
Speaking about the series, Vikram Channa, the vice-president of Production and Development at Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, says: "The challenge (when it comes to such a documentary) is how to make policy into a story."
Calling the series "a choreography of multiple opinions", Channa, who is also the producer of China: Time of Xi, says the hope is that "it (the series) can communicate hard policies in an intimate and personal way".
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