Chinese Student's Film Receives Award at the American University Movie and Television Arts Festival

On Friday April 30 at 6 p.m., the Annual Movie and Television Arts Festival was held at the Mary Graydon Centre of American University in Washington D.C. The children's movie, "Wish," produced by Chinese student Wang Jinwei of the Media School, was awarded the "Medium and Full-length Movie and Television Award." She was the only Chinese student to receive an award at this time. What's more, the film was the first Chinese film to win such an award. At the award ceremony, the winners granted permission to broadcast all the award-winning films on television stations in many states as well as through many satellite TV networks.

The film "Wish" describes, through the eyes of two Chinese girls who have lost their parents, what has happened in Mainland China since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999. It covers the time during which Jiang's regime has fabricated lies and promoted state terrorism in the persecution of Falun Gong. During these years, many Falun Gong practitioners have been beaten to death or seriously injured. As a result of the persecution, families were torn apart, and many people became homeless to avoid persecution. This persecution not only violates the human rights of Falun Gong practitioners, it affects over hundreds of millions of families, and they are suffering deeply. Among those families, the children are also harmed both mentally and physically. In fact, this persecution is totally based on lies and it impacts every family and every child. In the film, these two children represent the tens of thousands of young people who endure deep anguish in their hearts. Through making cranes made of thousands of pieces of paper, they wish to end the persecution of Falun Gong as soon as possible. They hope that all the children will be able to come back to their mothers. Isn't this also the wish of tens of thousands of kind-hearted people'

The two young actresses in "Wish," Guoguo and Daodao, are both good students at school. They also study Chinese at the Washington DC Minghui School every weekend.

Guoguo's grandmother practises Falun Gong. Soon after the last Mid-Autumn Festival, the "610" Office took her to a brainwashing class and kept her there for two months. For the first few weeks, they didn't even let her family members know where she was being held. Guoguo's grandfather was very worried day and night. He was allowed to visit her once later, as he was given "special treatment" because of their 40th wedding anniversary. Because Guoguo's father and mother are working hard to raise the awareness of the persecution in China, her grandparents were told that they would not be allowed to come overseas. Her grandmother's passport was also taken away. Guoguo misses her grandparents so much and she doesn't know when she can possibly see them again.

The entire film is produced in Chinese with English subtitles. Wang Jinwei, the producer, said, "I tried to bring forward a picture that truly expresses the wishes of tens of thousands of children persecuted in China. We couldn't have been successful without the two young actresses diligently narrating in Chinese. Guoguo and Daodao, the two young actresses, are also Falun Gong practitioners. Living in freedom in the United States, they haven't forgotten their young counterparts on the other side of the ocean. In China, the children are enduring persecution and pain they should not have to endure. In order to express their wishes, these girls used their free time to memorize the script so they could recite fluently, and the entire process went smoothly."