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 launch of the project
Attend the “cloud launch” ceremonyKomiks also includes UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azulei, French Ambassador to China Luo Liang, Central Radio and Television Editorial Conference Xue Jijun, 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 history of ancient human development and evolution and showcase China’s prehistoric history, the China Radio and Television Station Film and Television Documentary Center and the French State Television Group jointly produced the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind”, and plans to be launched as an activity project for the French Cultural Tourism Year in December 2021. At that time, the documentary film will be broadcast simultaneously in major theaters around the world, French national TV No. 2 and the Central Station Documentary Channel.
The epidemic cannot stop CinemaCultural cooperation
China-France “cloud” civilization exchange
This yearSince then, 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 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. Babaylan“
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, adjust work ideas in a timely manner, make 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 Committee, Director and Editor-in-Chief Shen Haixiong
Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee, 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. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaBeijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” tells about the exchanges and mutual learning of civilizations, emphasizes co-construction and sharing, is in line with the current proposition, has the temperament of the times and humanistic 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. ”
French Minister of Culture Frank List
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 collaborations give everyone the opportunity to understand the connections that humanity has transcended borders for thousands of years, The basis of the relationship between France and China is that we have common beliefs. I firmly believe that this documentary film will surely succeed. ”
Deep integration of “cross-screen”
Create high-quality documentary films
In the era of media integration, it is the strategic goal of China Central Radio and Television.
In this regard, the China Central Radio and Television Documentary Center is committed to producing more exquisite documentaries with profound thoughts, exquisite art and excellent production. This time, the French State Television Group has created the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” is a meaningful exploration of the integration of the two sides’ “cross-screen” and combining their respective advantageous resources.
United Nations Educational Science and Technology CorporationCinema 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 results of these two undertakings have updated 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 epic. ”
United Nations Director-General Audrey Azulei
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
In the film and television documentary of China Central Radio and Television, Cinema is trying to explore a new path of documentary media integration with “cross-screen” as the pathpath. 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 work that cares for mankind, observes the world, and has a pioneering position in the field of 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 program at 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 the earliest primitive humans in China, how they invented tools, how their brains evolved, and thus become modern humans. So this will be a new chapter, a prehistoric China you don’t know.”
Catherine Alevares, head of documentary program at 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. After that, the research and discovery here laid the foundation for the birth of the discipline of Chinese paleoanthropology.
The excavation site of the Zhoukoudian site of Beijing Renren
And on December 2, 1929, Beijing was discovered hereCinemaThe skull of the ape has unveiled a new era of ancient human research in the world.
Excavation site of Zhoukoudian site in Beijing
In 1987, the Zhoukoudian site was included in the World Cultural Heritage List by UNESCO.
Zhoukoudian site
Babaylan Director of the Institute of Animal and Paleoanthropology of Chinese Academy of Sciences Deng Tao introduced: “Generations of scholars from different countries have conducted many aspects of research on Zhoukoudian 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 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 prehistoric stories of the “Beijing People” in Asia, and present the scholars’ research results through video.
This documentary will be directed by the famous French documentary director Jacques Marat Cinema, and 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 love of 800 million viewers around the world.
Jacques Marat, the director of “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Man”
Yves Coben was the discovery of the early human fossil “Lucy”. He had a long history of inseparable relationship with China and the “Beijing People”. 40 years ago, he visited China and participated in the scientific research work of the Zhoukoudian site with his team.
Chief writer and scientific consultant of “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Man” Yves Coben
Why did it focus on human evolutionary history nearly 20 years later? General writer 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 a message to all mankind, because humans are essentially family members. 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, transcending civilization conflicts through mutual learning, and transcending civilization coexistence with civilizations. The more civilized and superior Komiks, it will write a new chapter in Sino-France cultural exchanges and cooperation.
“Beijing People: The Last Secret of Humanity” Cloud Launch Ceremony