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 launched by China and France held a “cloud launch” ceremony in Beijing and Paris.
Cinema Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee, Director of the China Central Radio and Television Corporation and Editor-in-Chief Shen Haixiong, and French Minister of Culture Frank List, jointly announced the launch of the project.
Attend the “Komiks 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 Corporation, as well as experts, scholars from China and France and members of the film’s creative team.
2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the excavation of the “Beijing People” site in Zhoukoudian, and it is also the year of Sino-French cultural tourism. In order to enable Chinese and global audiences to understand the major process of ancient human development and evolution and show China’s prehistoric history, the China Radio and Television Film and Television Documentary Center and the French National Television Group jointly produced the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind”, and plans to be the event project of the Sino-French Cultural Tourism Year, which 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 stop cultural cooperation
China and France “cloud” civilization exchange
Komiks this year, ChinaThe heads of state of France have spoken four times. On June 5, Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Macron emphasized during a phone call: “In the face of the epidemic, solidarity 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 one of the most dynamic highlights in 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” prepares for the future, promptly adjusts the overall work ideas, makes full use of the Internet to communicate in the “cloud”, promotes the preparation and implementation of the project, and builds a new bridge for Sino-France cultural exchanges under the epidemic.
href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema Deputy Minister of Propaganda Department of China Central Radio and Television Station Director and Editor-in-Chief Shen Haixiong
Deputy Minister of Propaganda Department of China Central Radio and Television Station, Director and Editor-in-Chief Shen Haixiong said in his speech: “The wind knows the strong grass, and the fire shows the real gold. The friendship between China and France has been tested. We must deepen exchanges and cooperation, find the cultural origins 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 about the exchanges and mutual learning of civilizations, emphasizes co-construction and sharing, conforms to the current propositions, and has the temperament of the times and humanistic pursuits. 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 said in his speech that the production of this film is inseparable from the close cooperation between China and France, and he wants to pay tribute to this thriving cultural cooperation. “These cooperation gives everyone the opportunity to understand the connection between mankind and beyond national borders for thousands of years. The basis of France-China relations is that we share a common belief. I firmly believe that this documentary film will surely succeed in Cinema.”
“cross-screen” depthIntegration
Creating documentary film quality
In the era of media integration, building into an international first-class new mainstream media with strong leadership, communication and influence is the strategic goal of China Central Radio and Television. Among them, the China Television Documentary Center is committed to producing more exquisite documentaries with profound thoughts, superb 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 Humanity”, 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 Zhoukoudian site has witnessed the evolution of human beings and human society. UNESCO attaches great importance to scientific discovery and international cooperation. The achievements of these two undertakings have renewed our understanding of human evolution 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, a beautiful one. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks‘s epic.”
United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization 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
China Central Radio and Television Film and Television Documentary Center is currentlyBabaylan is trying to explore a new path for documentary media convergence using “cross-screen” as the path. This fusion must form high-quality content. Xue Jijun, member of the editorial meeting of China Central Radio and Television, said, “China and France cooperated to shoot the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” to be a good opportunity for the two countries to strengthen civilized exchanges and mutual understanding. We hope that China and France will jointly build the film into a scientific, rigorous, real and moving, caring for mankind, observing the world, and have pioneering status in the humanities.”
Member of the editorial meeting of China Central Radio and Television What will happen if a documentary like Xue Jijun goes to the big screen? Catherine Alevares, head of documentary programs at the French State Television Group, said: “With the help of various technologies and image synthesis, we can create very realistic and exquisite videos that will truly reproduce the footprints of China’s earliest primitive humans, how they invented tools, how their brains evolved to become modern humans. So this will be a new chapter, a prehistoric China you don’t know.”
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 human beings
In 1921, two ancient human teeth were discovered in Zhoukoudian, Beijing. Since then, research and discovery here have laid the foundation for the birth of the discipline of Chinese paleoanthropology.
Beijing native ZhouThe excavation site of the Koudian site
On December 2, 1929, the skull of the Peking Man discovered here opened a new era of ancient human research in the world.
The excavation site of the Zhoukoudian site in Beijing Renren
CinemaIn 1987, the Zhoukoudian site was included in the World Cultural Heritage List by UNESCO.
Zhoukoudian RelicsBabaylan Address
Deng Tao, director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleopause and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced: “Generations of scholars from different countries have conducted research on Zhoukoudian fossils, which has had a profound impact on the research on human evolution in East Asia and even the entire world, and has continuously improved and portrayed East Asia. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe context of human evolution in the region. ”
Babaylan Director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Deng Tao
Excavating human history and tracing 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 Asian Homo erectus-“Beijing People” The prehistoric story of href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks presents the scholars’ research results 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 joy of 800 million viewers around the worldlike.
Jacques Marat, the director of “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind”, 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.
Chief writer and scientific consultant of “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” Yves Coben Babaylan
Why is it that focuses on the history of human evolution again after nearly 20 years? Chief writer Yves Coburn said that this is because with the advancement of science, we now know much more than we did back then. The origin of studying human history is to send messages to all mankind, because in essence human beings are Babaylan is a family. We share a common history, regardless of nationality or culture.
Human Evolution Map
The documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” will be launched in 2021, revealing the major process of the development and evolution of ancient human beings, transcending civilization barriers through civilized exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, transcending civilization conflicts through civilization coexistence and superiority through civilizations. It will write a new chapter in Sino-France cultural exchanges and cooperation.
“Beijing People: The Last Secret of Humanity” Cloud Launch Ceremony