Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival

23/10/2023

山

23/10/2023

湖

23/10/2023

河

18/09/2023

14/06/2023

7th Golden Tree Festival
🏆 Best Feature Documentary Award

SCRAP

Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world’s scrap. SCRAP scratches beneath the flaking paint and rusting metal to expose our deep attachment to the things we use while revealing the beauty and pathos in the ugliness we leave behind.

Director 🎬 Stacey Tenenbaum (Canada)
Stacey Tenenbaum is an award-winning creative producer and director. In 2014 she founded H2L Productions, a boutique documentary film production company specializing in crafting character driven stories which are shot internationally. Stacey’s first documentary feature Shiners, was broadcast on TV5, the Documentary Channel, and on PBS / Independent Lens series. Her second film Pipe Dreams was broadcast on the Documentary Channel, ARTV, NHK, SVT, and Independent Lens / PBS in 2019. Before turning her attention to film, Stacey worked in factual television for 16 years, producing and co-creating award-winning documentary series such as The Beat (CTV) and In Real Life (YTV). In 2012, Stacey was nominated for an International Emmy for In Real Life III. Stacey is known for her ability to find and connect with great characters around the world. She is passionate about making cinematic films which are filled with humour and heart.

Critics:

This is undeniably the most cinematic film in this section. A high quality, colorful and rich production telling the story of humble global scrap. It is also outrageously the most expensive film and did not live up to its massive price tag. Nor did it really shed light on a topic in an in-depth way. However it was a feast for the eyes and ears. It also had none of the practical challenges facing other films in this category who over came those difficulties on a fraction of the budget. It will be for the panel to decide the balance between visual achievement, journalistic impact and resourcefulness.
-- Haydn Price
Final Jury Member of the 7th GTIDFF

07/06/2023

7th Golden Tree Festival
🏆 Best Medium-length Documentary Award

🎬 The Land of Spirits

On the everlasting quest to explore the mysteries of nature, we have stepped onto extreme terrains and visited the creatures dwelling on those lands, in order to seek a way for humans, animals, and nature to live in harmony. This time, we are traveling to the four corners of China’s vast land. By visiting the four awe-inspiring creatures there, we try to communicate with Mother Nature through the messages they’ve relayed to us. The four magnificent creatures – the Siberian tiger, King of Forests, the white dolphin, Spirit of Oceans, the Asian elephant, Giant in Rainforests, and the wild yak, Messenger from Snow Mountains, were once the totems in the primeval timesand dominant species at the top of the food chain. Now they are known as “flagship” species and have been living with human beings as emissaries of nature, to help deliver nature’s messages in their own style. Here on the Land of Spirits, those miraculous communications are happening.

🎥 Director: Zeng Hairuo (China)

A Well-known documentary director in China. As a leading figure in the field,
Zeng has planned, directed, and produced many masterpieces in Chinese
documentary history, including The Third Pole, My Anti-Japanese War, Story of Movie, etc.