Up the Yangtze

93分钟｜2007｜纪录片｜英语、四川话、普通话｜英文字幕

一艘豪华邮轮在长江上缓缓航行，而中国政府则在长江上着手建造世界上最大的大坝项目，这将是继长城之后的又一巨大工程。在这个过程中，余水的家庭因三峡工程而不得不进行搬迁，使得本来就不富裕的农民生活更加艰难。余水作为家里的长女，16岁时不得不辍学去打工，最终成为一艘豪华观光邮轮的服务员。而与余水在同一艘邮轮上工作的陈波宇则来自中产阶级家庭，是家中的独子。他从小过着优越的生活，长相英俊，心怀成功追求，但由于被过度娇惯，工作中屡屡碰壁。

Yung CHANG is a Canadian filmmaker currently based in Montreal, where he earned a degree in film production in 1999 from Concordia University. His parents are both first-generation Chinese immigrants to Canada. Through their influence, Yung maintains a strong interest in contemporary Chinese issues. Since 1996, he has spent extended periods in China and has travelled throughout the country. His first documentary film, Earth to Mouth, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, is a beautifully crafted meditation on migrant farm labor, food production and Canada’s Chinese community. It played widely on the international festival circuit, winning awards at the International Film and Video Festival in Columbus, Ohio, and Montreal’s Rencontres Internationales du documentaire. He is also a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where he studied the Meisner technique. He makes innovative use of this methodology in Up the Yangtze, his first feature-length documentary.