Ou Deda and his Daughters
Director: Wang Qinze
Producer: Angus Macqueen
Running Time: 50 minutes
China 2003

Wang Qinze is almost unique in China:
an independent filmmaker. Using his own money, Qinze spent 6 months in the depths of Southern China to bring back an extraordinarily moving story of the end of a culture: how the Nu tribe, who still hunt with bows and arrows, are being dragged into the 21st Century.

Ou Dede is the tale of the village bard. For centuries bards have passed the stories and music of the Nu tribe from father to son, but Ou Deda has three daughters and no son.

The film is shot with breathtaking intensity, the film transports the viewer to a China few have seen before – centuries away from modern Shanghai and Beijing.

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