Kickstarter Project Funds Film About Chinese Citizen Journalists
We write a lot about startups who create apps and web services, but we don’t often get a chance to write about people who are making waves in the media space — especially in China. It’s there we find two citizen journalists – 27-year-old Zhou Shuguang (aka Zola) and 57-year-old ‘Tiger Temple’ – who have been working to tell stories that often get buried by state censors.
I’m not familiar with the latter, but having spent a few years in China and following the news there, I’d say that there are few bloggers as ballsy or as tech savvy as Zola. I’ve mentioned him in a few stories before, but over the years he has traveled around China and reported on various protests, riots, and other events. He has been detained and harassed by police before, and discouraged from continuing his reporting. And if that resume isn’t impressive enough, he hosts seminars in Beijing on new media technology as well.
A film is being made about Zola and Tiger, and money is being raised via Kickstarter to take care of post-production costs. While I haven’t heard much about Zola in the past year or so, I think this is certainly a project worth supporting.
The film, entitled High Tech, Low Life, has been selected to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this month. There are only six days left, and as I write this, the Kickstarter project has only raised just over half of its $23,500 goal.
You can check out more information about the project below, and decide for yourself if you’d like to pitch in.
この映画のタイトルは「High Tech, Low Life」で、今月開かれるトライベカ映画フェスティバルで初上映されることになっている。あと6日しかない。私がこの記事を書いている時点で、Kickstarter のプロジェクトには目標額23,500ドルの半分ちょっとしか集まっていない。
下のビデオで同プロジェクトの詳細を見て、支援したいかどうか決めて欲しい。
映画のタイトルは「High Tech, Low Life」で、今月のトライベッカ映画祭にて初公開される作品に選ばれた。残り６日、私がこの記事を書いている段階でKickstarterプロジェクトの資金は当初の目標である$23,500の半分しか集まっていない。
以下からプロジェクトに関する詳しい情報を入手できるので、自身の目で協力したいかどうか判断してほしい。
一行目の民間ではなく、市民に訂正致します。失礼致しました。
了解しました。ありがとうございます。