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HomeGolden Rooster Films Project MarketProject CollectionThe Leopard and the People in Time

The Leopard and the People in Time

Creative Statement

Guided by a leopard, Li'er travels deep into the Miao mountains. There she comes upon an ancient 'Rice Flower Soul' ritual and gradually uncovers her bond with her homeland and with Feng, a young Miao man. The mountain mist shifts; nothing will stay, yet everything will stay.

Genre:

Drama, Fantasy

Director:

Wang Chunjing

Screenwriter:

Wang Chunjing

Producer:

Wu Xinyi

Production Company:

N/A

About the Director

Director and screenwriter; filmmaker and observer of ethnic cultures. Directed Valley of Illusions (2023, in Tibetan), which won the Bridge of Cultures Award at the 2024 Imaginist Art Film Festival and a Best Cinematography nomination at the 3rd Pingyuan Yikuai Art Short Film Exhibition, and was selected for the main fiction competition of HiShorts! 2023 and the 2024 Daydream Fantasy Youth Film Festival, among others. In 2023 wrote the sci-fi screenplay Deities, which has been adapted into a comic book. In 2024 wrote the screenplays Before the Flowing Water at Dusk (genre: drama) and A Qing, A Qing (genre: drama, fantasy); in 2025 wrote the screenplay The Leopard and the People in Time (genre: drama, fantasy).

About the Producer

Works to develop and produce film and television projects on ethnic, local, and song-and-dance cultures. Local culture: Late Calling (Southern Fujian and Taiwan; Honorary Short Film Award at the Short Film Season of the China Golden Rooster & Hundred Flowers Film Festival, among others), Saying Goodbye Properly (Ningbo; Dawn Honor in the Work-in-Progress Section of the Golden Rooster Films Project Market, among others) and The Fourth Story (Northeast China; selected for the Short Film Season of the China Golden Rooster & Hundred Flowers Film Festival, among others). Ethnic culture: Bolete and Cooling Soup (Li people; final selection of the Green Coconut Program of the Hainan Island International Film Festival, among others) and Trance (Mongolian). Fantasy: Rondo of Time and Space, Trance, The Other Side of Night and The Vajra Traveler.

About the Screenwriter

Director and screenwriter; filmmaker and observer of ethnic cultures. Directed Valley of Illusions (2023, in Tibetan), which won the Bridge of Cultures Award at the 2024 Imaginist Art Film Festival and a Best Cinematography nomination at the 3rd Pingyuan Yikuai Art Short Film Exhibition, and was selected for the main fiction competition of HiShorts! 2023 and the 2024 Daydream Fantasy Youth Film Festival, among others. In 2023 wrote the sci-fi screenplay Deities, which has been adapted into a comic book. In 2024 wrote the screenplays Before the Flowing Water at Dusk (genre: drama) and A Qing, A Qing (genre: drama, fantasy); in 2025 wrote the screenplay The Leopard and the People in Time (genre: drama, fantasy).