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Pretty Girls

posted on Sunday, February 01, 2009 05:49 AM

Pretty Girls is a half hour documentary about a Beijing sex worker which Judy and I shot during 2007. It has been submitted to festivals.

Pretty Girls is the story of the biggest social challenge facing modern China today: the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor. It is told through the eyes of a young sex worker in Beijing. Aifeng, a migrant worker from Jiangxi province left her home in rural China to work in Beijing. She is struggling to support her entire family and provides for them with the salary she earns in the city. Her two children need to go to school and her older relatives are unable to work. She is making the ultimate sacrifice by leaving them all behind. The film begins during Chinese new year 2008, it is also the run up to the Beijing Olympics. The massage parlour where Aifeng works doubles as a brothel and every day her and the other women sit by the glass front door trying to lure clients inside. As they spend every day trapped inside the shop, outside the cityscape is changing and gearing up for the Olympics. During the Olympic 'clean up' brothels around the city are forced to close and the women discover their shop will be shutting down also. Jobless and unable to afford life in Beijing Aifeng must return home to face an uncertain future.

Comments

Barry Crisp

Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:59 AM

Sounds very interesting. Where can I view this short film? It wasn't on the dust-films website.

Camilla French

Tuesday, February 03, 2009 03:51 PM

The trailer will be up on the website in the next few weeks, for now it is available on my shooting people profile page: http://shootingpeople.org/watch/film.php?film_id=70237

Barry Crisp

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:47 AM

Cool!

Tommy Hutchinson

Friday, February 06, 2009 07:28 PM

Trailer is amazing!