Saying a Proper Goodbye

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Synopsis

Approached through the lens of hospice care, the film tells the story of Ying Nuo, a young single mother with a terminal illness who, accompanied by her daughter and her father, calmly walks the final stretch of her life.

Genre:

Drama, Family

Director:

Zhang Chi

Screenwriter:

Huang Zhongqi, Chen Sanjun

Producer:

Chen Sanjun

Production Company:

Ningbo Film and Television Art Co., Ltd.

About the Director

Zhang Chi was born in 1987 in Ningbo, Zhejiang. Independent director with a master's degree in communication from the University of Nottingham. Main narrative credits: Memory Prison (2021, 96 min), world premiere in the A Window on Asian Cinema section of the Busan International Film Festival, selected for Camerimage and the FIRST Chengdu Surprise Film Festival, released exclusively on iQIYI in 2022; the feature Ocean Animals (2018, 112 min), selected for the main competition of the Moscow International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize, and for Camerimage; the medium-length film White Fog Shore (2016, 65 min), selected for the feature competition of the 10th FIRST International Film Festival.

About the Producer

Chairman and general manager of Ningbo Film and Television Art Co., Ltd. of the Ningbo Radio and Television Group, and vice chair of the Ningbo TV Artists Association. He taught at a university for more than ten years and then headed the arts division of a local Party committee's publicity department for many years. He brings resource integration skills and experience in planning, creating and promoting major arts works. Films, TV series, stage plays and arts books he has helped plan and produce have repeatedly received the national "Five One Project" Award for cultural and ethical progress. Representative works: the films The Power Code and Herdsman Governor Zhabulong, and the TV series Eastward to the Sea, Another Me, And the Winner Is Love and The Guardians.

About the Screenwriter

Huang Zhongqi: young screenwriter. Her children's film Wait for Me, Dad (originally titled The Winter Solstice) won a 2020 Asia Pacific Screen Awards global development fund grant, was selected among the outstanding director projects of the 2019 Wu Tianming Young Film Fund, the top 60 of the 2021 Golden Rooster Films Project Market and the 2022 International Film Festival Rotterdam fund/market pre-selection. Her comedy screenplay A Fortune Ahead was selected for the top 60 of the 2020 Golden Rooster Films Project Market. Chen Sanjun: chairman and general manager of Ningbo Film and Television Art Co., Ltd. of the Ningbo Radio and Television Group, and vice chair of the Ningbo TV Artists Association. He taught at a university for more than ten years and then headed the arts division of a local Party committee's publicity department for many years. He brings resource integration skills and experience in planning, creating and promoting major arts works. Films, TV series, stage plays and arts books he has helped plan and produce have repeatedly received the national "Five One Project" Award for cultural and ethical progress. Representative works: the films The Power Code and Herdsman Governor Zhabulong, and the TV series Eastward to the Sea, Another Me, And the Winner Is Love and The Guardians.