Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf

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Creative Statement

Forced to leave the grasslands with a wolf cub, the girl Yan goes through many hardships to help the cub return to the grasslands in search of a freedom that seems out of reach.

Synopsis

Yanzi, a 16-year-old girl who hates wolves, and her mother rescue a wolf cub from poachers, and her mother is injured. Yanzi reluctantly takes on the task of delivering the cub to her grandmother's home. A journey that should take half a day seems, after one mishap after another, as if it will never end. First she runs into a family from the big city with a chubby boy, and after a quarrel with this odd family she is deceived by a fake biologist. Yanzi begins to doubt everyone and their lies, told for all kinds of reasons. While fleeing, she is hit by a tranquilizer dart and falls into the water, and is rescued by a mute boy. That night under a bridge, past their misunderstandings, the two fall asleep comforting each other. The next day Yanzi brings the cub to her grandmother's home, but her grandmother refuses to help look after it: Yanzi's father died years ago in a heavy snowstorm while saving a wolf. Just then the cub is seized by poachers again. Yanzi falls out with her grandmother and follows the cub to the city. One danger after another puts Yanzi in peril, but with the mute boy's help once more, the two rescue the cub and destroy the fake biologist's lair.

Subject:

Western, Adventure, Children's

Director:

Tu Hailun, Ambra Corinti

Screenwriter:

Tu Hailun, Yongxi Zhuoma

Producer:

N/A

Production Company:

Baitong Zhuozhuang (Shanghai) Pictures Co., Ltd.

About the Director

Tu Hailun: director and screenwriter. Wrote and directed the fantasy drama short Little Moonlight Detective (2020). Main works: writer and director of The Timid Dragon, with Tian Zhuangzhuang as executive producer and Wang Hongwei as artistic director; the finished film received the Jury Special Award for narrative features at the 18th FIRST International Film Festival. Ambra Corinti (Italy): director and art director. Studied ancient Chinese art at Sapienza University of Rome; several films she has worked on have been selected for the Locarno Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam, among others.

About the Screenwriter

Main works: writer and director of The Timid Dragon, with Tian Zhuangzhuang as executive producer and Wang Hongwei as artistic director; the finished film received the Jury Special Award for narrative features at the 18th FIRST International Film Festival. Tu Hailun: director and screenwriter. Wrote and directed the fantasy drama short Little Moonlight Detective (2020) and the fantasy adventure family film The Timid Dragon (2024). Screenwriting credits: Finding the Cat, Little Red Riding Hood's Wolf and the Guagua's Adventures series, among others. Yongxi Zhuoma: screenwriter. Graduated from the Communication University of China. Her father is Han and her mother Tibetan, and she grew up on the grasslands of the Tibetan areas of Sichuan. She wrote and acted in Summer Dance, which won an award at a North American film festival.

Production Company

Baitong Zhuozhuang (Shanghai) Pictures Co., Ltd. presents and produces films and TV works for children and young audiences. It has developed in-house the Guagua's Adventures series, for which it holds the film and TV rights, and is preparing to publish the series as picture books. In 2021 it completed the fantasy children's adventure film The Timid Dragon, directed by Tu Hailun with Tian Zhuangzhuang as executive producer and Wang Hongwei as artistic director. The project was selected for the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Beijing International Film Festival, the FIRST International Film Festival and the Golden Rooster Films Project Market, and the finished film received the Jury Special Award for narrative features at the 18th FIRST International Film Festival.