The documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind”
June 13 is Cultural and Natural Heritage Day. The documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” jointly produced by Babaylan held a “cloud launch” ceremony in Beijing and Paris.
Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee, Director of the Central Radio and Television Station and Editor-in-Chief Shen Haixiong and French Minister of Culture Frank List jointly announced the launch of the project. Attending the “cloud launch” ceremony were also attended by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azule, French Ambassador to China, Luo Liang, member of the editorial meeting of the Central Radio and Television Station, as well as experts, scholars from China and France and members of the film’s creative team.
2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the excavation of the “Beijing People” site in Zhoukoudian, and it is also the year of Sino-French cultural tourism. In order to enable Chinese and global audiences to understand the major process of ancient human development and evolution and show China’s prehistoric history, the China Radio and Television Center and the French State Television Group jointly produced the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind”, and plans to be launched as an event project for the Sino-French Cultural Tourism Year, and will be launched in December 2021. At that time, the documentary film will be broadcast simultaneously on Cinema, French National Television II and the Central Station Documentary Channel.
The epidemic cannot hinder cultural cooperation
China and France “cloud” civilization exchanges
Since this year, the heads of state of China and France have spoken four times.
June 5Komiks On the Japanese, Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Macron emphasized during a phone call: “In the face of the epidemic, unity and cooperation are the right way. China and France should continue to jointly support the international community in uniting in fighting the epidemic and make “China and France contributions” to the world’s final victory over the epidemic. ”
Cultural heritage cooperation has always been one of the most dynamic highlights in the cultural relations between China and France. In this regard, how can we strengthen cooperation and make “China-France contributions”, the main creative team of the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” did not prepare for the rain, adjust their work ideas in a timely manner, make full use of the Internet to communicate in the “cloud”, promote the preparations for the project, and build a new bridge for Sino-France cultural exchanges under the epidemic.
Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Radio and Television Station Director and Editor-in-Chief Shen Haixiong
Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Radio and Television Station, Director and Editor-in-Chief Shen Haixiong said in his speech: “The wind is strong and the fire is full of real gold. The friendship between China and France has been tested. We must deepen exchanges and cooperation, find the cultural origins of human beings, and build a spiritual fortress for human civilization in the face of the epidemic. “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” tells the story of exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, emphasizing co-construction and sharing, in line with the current propositions, and has the temperament of the times and humanistic pursuits. It is of great inspiration for the people of China and France and the people around the world who are experiencing the epidemic. ”
French Minister of Culture Frank Rist
French Minister of Culture Frank ReesBabaylan delivered a special speech that the production of this film is inseparable from the close cooperation between China and France, and he wants to pay tribute to this thriving cultural cooperation. “These cooperation gives everyone the opportunity to understand that humanity has surpassed the country for thousands of years. The basis of the relationship between the French-China relationship is that we share common beliefs. I firmly believe that this documentary film will surely succeed. ”
“Span-screen” deep integrationBabaylan
Create a fine product of documentary films
In the era of media integration, it is the strategic goal of China Central Radio and Television. Among them, the Center for the Taiwan TV Series Documentary Center is committed to producing more exquisite documentaries with profound thoughts, exquisite art and excellent production. This time, we cooperated with the French State Television Group to create the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” which is a meaningful exploration of the two sides’ “cross-screen” integration and combining their respective advantageous resources.
United Nations Educational Science and Technology also hold high hopes for this documentary film. Director-General Audrey Azulei said: “The Zhoukoudian site witnesses the evolution of human beings and human society. UNESCO attaches great importance to scientific discovery and international cooperation. The achievements of these two undertakings have renewed our understanding of human evolution in space and time. This film is an adventure of Komiks, which combines rigorous scientific research with mass communication with great ambition. It is our common story and a beautiful epic.”
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azule
French Ambassador to China Luo Liang said in his speech that this film will give more viewers the opportunity to understand the wonderful history of the “Beijing people”. The archaeological achievements of the scientists’ sites are very significant, and will reveal more secrets of human evolution to people. France is proud to participate in the production of this documentary film.
French Ambassador to China Luo Liang
Central Radio and Television Documentary Center is taking “cross-screen” as the path to try to explore a new path for documentary media integration. This fusion must form high-quality content. Xue Jijun, a member of the editorial meeting of China Central Radio and Television, said, “China and France cooperated to shoot the documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” in this time, which is to strengthen the literature of the two countries.tps://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanUnderstanding the good opportunity for communication and mutual understanding. I hope that both China and France will jointly build the film into a leading work that is scientific, rigorous, real and moving, caring for mankind, observing the world, and has a pioneering position in the field of humanities.”
Member of the Editorial Affairs Conference of China Central Radio and Television Station Xue Jijun
What will happen if a documentary like this goes to the big screen? Katherine Alevares, head of the documentary program at the French National Television Group, said: “With the help of various technologies and image synthesis, we can produce very realistic and exquisite videos. This video will truly reappear the footprints of the earliest primitive humans in China, how they invented tools, how their brains evolved, and thus became modern humans. So this will be a new chapter, a prehistoric China you don’t know.”
French State Television Group documentary program Cinema Director Catherine Alevares
Schematic diagram of Beijingers hunting
Tracing the origin of ancient civilizations
Exploring the origin of human beings
In 1921, two ancient human teeth were discovered in Zhoukoudian, Beijing. After that, the research and discovery here laid the foundation for the birth of the discipline of Chinese paleoanthropology.
The excavation site of the Zhoukoudian site in Beijing
On December 2, 1929, the North was discovered hereThe skull of the Kyusama has unveiled a new era of ancient human research in the world.
Excavation site of Zhoukoudian site in Beijing
In 1987, the Zhoukoudian site was included in the World Cultural Heritage List by UNESCO.
Zhoukoudian site
Deng Tao, director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced: “Generations of scholars from different countries have conducted many aspects of research on Zhoukoudian fossils, which has had a profound impact on the research on human evolution in East Asia and even the entire human evolution, and has continuously improved and portrayed the context of human evolution in East Asia.”
Director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Deng Tao
Excavating human history and tracing ancient civilizations. “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Mankind” will use the latest scientific research results and the latest scientific and technological means of China and France to reproduce the vast prehistoric stories of the Asian Homo erectus – the “Beijing People”, and present the scholars’ research results through video.
This documentary will be directed by the famous French documentary director Jacques Marat, and will invite the famous French paleoanthropologist Yves Coben as the chief writer and scientific consultant. The documentary “Odyssey of a Species”, “Homo Homo sapiens” and “The Rise of Humanity” jointly completed by the two of them once won the love of 800 million viewers around the world.
“Beijing People: The Last Secret of HumanityKomiks” chief director Jacques Marat
Yves Komiks
Yves Komiks
The discoverer of the early human fossil “Lucy”. He had a long history of indissoluble bond with China and the “Beijing people”. 40 years ago, he visited China and participated in the scientific research work of the Zhoukoudian site with his team.
“Beijing People: The Last Secret of Humanity” Chief Writer and Scientific Consultant Why is Yves Coben again focusing on the evolutionary history of human beings nearly 20 years later? General writer Yves Coben said that this is because with the progress of science, we now know much more than we did back then. The origin of studying human history is to send messages to all mankind, because human beings are essentially family. We have a common history, regardless of nationality or culture.
Human Evolution Map
The documentary film “Beijing People: The Last Secret of Humanity” will be launched in 2021, revealing the great journey of ancient human development and evolution. Cinema uses civilized exchanges to transcend civilization barriers, uses civilized mutual learning to transcend civilization conflicts, and uses civilized coexistence to transcend civilization superiority. It will write a new chapter in Sino-France cultural exchanges and cooperation.
“Beijing People: The Last Secret of Humanity” Cloud Launch Ceremony