Piercing Cold

Creative Statement

The story is based on a real case the director worked on: an unidentified body found by a river, with no leads, falls to a young, ambitious detective. During the investigation he comes into contact with day labourers and finds that they always live in a state of "namelessness", yet he himself is also a nobody. So a nameless detective resolves to help a nameless dead man find his "name".

Genre:

Crime Investigation, Realist

Director/Screenwriter:

Peng Zeling

Executive Producer:

Wang Hongwei

Producer:

Wu Huanwei

About the Director

Peng Zeling: graduated in 2013 from the Department of Forensic Science and Technology of the People's Public Security University of China. He worked at the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, responsible for crime scene investigation in major cases. In six years of criminal investigation work he received three individual commendations and was twice named an outstanding civil servant, and he was a member of the Ministry of Public Security's national crime scene investigation instructor program. In 2022 he completed a graduate degree in feature film directing at the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy.

About the Executive Producer

Wang Hongwei: works include The Wandering Earth, Crazy Stone, A Writer's Odyssey, Hi, Mom, Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield, Lethal Hostage, Journey to the West, The Coffin in the Mountain and Are You Lonesome Tonight?.

About the Producer

Wu Huanwei: graduate student (class of 2020) at the School of Management of the Beijing Film Academy · Producer selected for the FIRST International Film Festival training camp · Producer of the Beijing Winter Olympics concept technology showcase film · Short film projects she produced, including Sunflower, Bone and Wufang, have been selected for major international film festivals.