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 produced by China and France held a “cloud launch” ceremony in Beijing and Paris.
Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee, Director of the Central Radio and Television Station and Editor-in-Chief Shen Haixiong and French Minister of Culture Frank List jointly announced the project<a The launch of Komiks was also attended by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azulei, French Ambassador to China, Xue Jijun, member of the editorial meeting of China Central Radio and Television, 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 Station Film and Television Documentary Center and the French State Television Group jointly produced this documentary “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind”, and plans to launch it as an event project for the Sino-French Cultural Tourism Year, and it will be launched in December 2021. During the Cinema, 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 hinder cultural cooperation
China and France “cloud” civilization exchanges
Since this year, the heads of state of China and 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, unity and cooperation are united and cooperated.com/”>Komiks is 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, adjusts their work ideas in a timely manner, makes full use of the Internet to communicate in “cloud” to promote the preparation and implementation of the project, and build a new bridge for Sino-France cultural exchanges under the epidemic.
Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Radio and Television Department Director and Editor-in-Chief Shen Haixiong
Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Radio and Television Department 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 humanities. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema‘s pursuit. It is of great inspiration for the people of China and France and the people all over the world who are experiencing the epidemic.”
Frank List, Minister of Culture of France, 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 transcend national borders over thousands of years. The basis of France-China relations is that we have a common belief. I firmly believe that this documentary film will surely be successful.” “Cross-screen” deep integration
Create a fine documentary film in the era of media integration, building into an international first-class new mainstream media with strong leadership, communication and influence. This is the strategic goal of China Central Radio and Television Station.
Among theseCinema, the China Television Documentary Center is committed to producing more exquisite documentaries with profound thoughts, exquisite 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 Mankind” 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 witnesses 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 and a beautiful epic.”
UNESCO 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 BabaylanLuo Liang
China Central Radio and Television Film and Television Documentary Center is trying to explore a new path for documentary media integration with “cross-screen” as the path. This fusion must form Komiks high-quality content. Cinema Xue Jijun, a member of the editorial meeting of China Central Radio and Television, said, “China and France cooperate to shoot the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” is a good opportunity for the two countries to strengthen exchanges of civilizations and mutual understanding. We hope that China and France will both be in a dual manner.Fang jointly made the film a scientific, rigorous, real and moving work, caring for mankind, observing the world, and having a pioneering position in the field of humanities. ”
Member of the editorial meeting of China Central Radio and Television Station Xue Jijun
What will happen if a documentary like this goes to the big screen? Catherine Alevares, head of the documentary program of the French State Television Group, said: “With the help of various technologies and image synthesis, we can produce very realistic and exquisite videos. This video will truly reproduce the footprints of China’s earliest primitive humans, how they invented tools and how their brains evolved, thus becoming Babaylan modern humans. So this will be a new chapter, a prehistoric China you don’t know about. ”
Catherine Alevares, head of documentary program of the French State Television Group
Schematic diagram of Beijing people hunting
Tracing the origin of ancient civilizations
Exploring the origin of human beings
In 1921, two ancient human teeth were discovered in Zhoukoudian, Beijing. After that, the research and discovery here laid the foundation for the birth of the discipline of Chinese paleoanthropology.
Beijing people ZhoukoudianKomiks site excavation site
On December 2, 1929, the Peking Man skull discovered here unveiled a new era of ancient human research in the world.
Beijing People Zhoukoudian site excavation site
1987Babaylan, the Zhoukoudian site was included in the World Cultural Heritage List by UNESCO. Cinema
Zhoukoudian Site
Vermen Paleopause and Ancients of Chinese Academy of Sciences<a Deng Tao, director of the Babaylan Institute of Research, introduced: "Generations of scholars from different countries have conducted many aspects of research on Zhoukoudian's fossils, which has had a profound impact on the research on human evolution in East Asia and even the entire human evolution, and has continuously improved and portrayed the context of human evolution in East Asia."
Director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Deng Tao
Exploring human history and tracing the origin of ancient civilizations. “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” will use the latest scientific research results and latest scientific and technological means of China and France to reproduce the magnificent prehistoric stories of the “Beijing People”, Asian Homo erectus, and present the research results of scholars through video.
This documentary film will be directed by Jacques Marat, the famous French documentary director, and will invite Yves Coben, a famous French paleoanthropologist, as the chief writer and scientific consultant. The documentary “Odyssey of a Species” “Komiks Homo sapiens” and “The Rise of Humanity” jointly completed by the two of them once won the love of 800 million viewers around the world.
Jacques Marat, the director of “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind”, was the discoverer of the early human fossil “Lucy”. He had formed an indissoluble bond with China and the “Beijing people” very early. 40 years ago, he visited China and participated in the scientific research work of the Zhoukoudian site with his team.
“Beijing People: The Last Secret of HumanityKomiks” Why did Yves Coben focus on the history of human evolution again after nearly 20 years? Yves Coben 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 human beings are essentially family. We have 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 ancient human development and evolution, transcending civilization barriers through civilized exchanges and exchanges through civilizations, transcending civilization conflicts through civilizations, and transcending civilization 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 CeremonyCinema