On the Way to the Sea | |
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Directed by | Tao Gu |
Produced by | Aonan Yang |
Starring | Yungen Li Chuanshu Gu |
Music by | Delphine Measroch |
Production company | GreenGround Productions |
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Running time | 19 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | Chinese |
On the Way to the Sea is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Tao Gu and released in 2010.[1] The film centres on the director's trip to his childhood home in Wenchuan County, China, following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.[1]
The film was made as Gu's thesis project for the film studies program at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.[2]
The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.[3] It was subsequently named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2010.[4]