Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Pretty Girls

Judy BRETSCHNEIDER Camilla FRENCH 2009 Chine Documentary color 29min Mandarin Beta
Shot in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, this documentary follows a young sex worker in a Beijing massage parlor. Aifeng, like so many other migrant workers in modern China, is struggling to support her family back home. When the shop is forced to close and she loses her job, Aifeng faces her biggest challenge yet.

Director

Judy BRETSCHNEIDER

Judy BRETSCHNEIDER is an independent documentary lmmaker based in London and Beijing. She studied Chinese and Law, and completed her Masters at the SOAS Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy in 2006. After returning to Beijing in 2008, Judy worked for Sky News and Reuters Television while producing short documentaries. In 2008 she co-directed and produced her rst documentary short Pretty Girls.

Camilla FRENCH

Camilla FRENCH worked as a journalist and magazine editor in Beijing before she got her Masters degree at The London Film School in 2006. Her rst student lm Olena is about sex traf cking in Britain. She has worked with Current TV, The Red Room and Reuters Television producing China based short documentaries and news pieces. In 2008 she co-directed and produced Pretty Girls.

Judy BRETSCHNEIDER

2007 Gathering Dust
2009
美女 Pretty Girls
2009 Finding Love in Beijing

Camilla FRENCH

2007 Olena
2007 Gathering Dust
2007 Utopia
2007 O My Jimmy
2009
美女 Pretty Girls
2009 Lost in the Muqam 2009 Finding love in Beijing

Director/Camilla FRENCH, Judy BRETSCHNEIDER

Producer/Camilla FRENCHJudy BRETSCHNEIDER

Cinematographer/Camilla FRENCH

Editor/Camilla FRENCHSheng-Sheng GUAN

Sound/Camilla FRENCH

Music/David MITCHELL

Production & Sales Company: Camilla FRENCH camillafrench@yahoo.co.uk

  美女 / Pretty Girls