Silly Roe Deer

Synopsis

Liu Jianghe, a small-town police officer mired in a midlife crisis, is a failure at life. He meets Li Sanping, the wife of a sheep dealer, childless after years of marriage and living with domestic violence. In the dark, freezing polar night, the two are drawn into a fake liquor case together, and it changes the course of both their lives.

Genre:

Mystery, Crime

Director:

Zhang Hongguang

Screenwriter:

Zhang Hongguang, Bai Xiaokui

Producer:

Xu Kailong, Zheng Yue

Production Company:

Shanghai Tianxiang Culture Media Co., Ltd.

About the Director

Screenwriter and director. More than ten years of creative experience at international 4A advertising agencies in Shanghai, winning more than thirty creative awards in China and abroad. Thirteen years as a commercials director, with more than two hundred commercials in a wide range of visual styles. Silly Roe Deer is his first feature.

About the Producer

Xu Kailong: producer, distributor and curator; member of the China Film Association and the China Animation Association. Formerly deputy general manager of 1905 Pictures under CCTV-6 and general manager of Yuanxin Pictures; now general manager and co-founder of Zhishang Lihe Pictures. Chief planner of Care for You, co-producer of The Looming Storm, chief planner of Mary's Academy, post-production supervisor of Days and Nights in Wuhan, and co-presenter of The Adventures of Kela and Mayi. He has led the full marketing and distribution campaigns of more than sixty films, including Transformers: Age of Extinction, xXx: Return of Xander Cage and The Angry Birds Movie, with a combined box office of more than 10 billion yuan.

About the Screenwriter

Ye Jing, pen name Bai Xiaokui: novelist and screenwriter, member of the China Writers Association and contracted writer of the Shanghai Writers Association. Online fiction: Didn't We Promise Not to Cry won first prize in Sohu's fourth original literature contest; Unchanged Heart of a Healer, Love Online and The Whole World Can Hear received support from the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation; My Daughter and I Are Deskmates received support for key online literature works from the China Writers Association. Screenwriting: the film Beyond the Stars was in the top 11 at the mid-term pitch of the Sci-Fi Film Section at the 5th Golden Rooster Films Project Market; the film Silly Roe Deer received 2023 "Major Arts Creation" funding from the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation. Zhang Hongguang: screenwriter and director. More than ten years of creative experience at international 4A advertising agencies in Shanghai, winning more than thirty creative awards in China and abroad. Thirteen years as a commercials director, with more than two hundred commercials in a wide range of visual styles. Silly Roe Deer is his first feature.