Press conference on movie 'Blossom'

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Date/Time: 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 9

Venue: Main Press Conference (MPC)

Wang Hui, the host of the press conference.

Wang Hui

Afternoon, dear friends from the media. It is my pleasure again to meet you. This is the 3rd day of Paralympic Games in Beijing. It is not only a grand sports gathering, but also a festival for the persons with disability. During the Paralympic Games, we can feel the care from the society. We believe even bigger care from the society. Today, the theme of this press conference is closely linked to the life of the person with disability. This is a movie by the name of 'Blossom'. So, today, we have invited with us the main production team as well as the actresses of that movie to meet you. And also, to answer any of the questions you might have. After the brief break after the press conference, we will show you the movie. The movie is 90 minutes. So we will try to end this press conference within 30 minutes.

First, I would like to present you our guests for today. Zhao Dongming, director of BOCOG Cultural Activities Department; Wang Tao, deputy director of the Propaganda & Culture Department of China Disabled Persons' Federation; Yang Jun, producer of the movie 'Blossom'; Yao Xingtong, leading actress of the movie 'Blossom'; Sun Qiaoling, supporting actress of the movie 'Blossom'; Gu Qinye, supporting actress of the movie 'Blossom'; Hu Jian, supporting actor of the movie 'Blossom'; and also, Mr. Feng Bing, general director of China Enterprise Directors Federation. Now I would like to invite Mr. Wang Tao to say a few words about the movie.

Wang Tao gives speech at the press conference.

Wang Tao

Dear friends from the media, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I would like to say a few words about this movie 'Blossom'. This movie is supposed to be a gift commemorating the Beijing Paralympic Games. That movie is about the disabled persons troupes of China. The main casts are from Zhejiang Disabled Persons Artistic Troupe. That movie shows all the efforts made by the disabled persons to strive for a better life. That movie shows that in the process of building a harmonious society, the person with disability will try to be integrated to the society. The movie, in terms of the scene and production, is about people first and no single person with disability will be left behind in building a well-off society. That movie showed the true and simple life of people with disability. It is a mainstream movie here in China. That movie shows what is happened in life about giving a lot of care to the people with disability. The significance of the movie is to try to tell the society that hundreds and thousands of people are needed and a lot of people are needed for the persons with disability.

Today we have invited the director of the Zhejiang Disabled Persons Artistic Performance Troupe to say more about that movie. While showing the true life of the person with disability, the directors and producers avoid some of the not so good person. The movie is also very beautiful from the production to the screen play. We have got a lot of support from Beijing Langtian Company. The cultural development for people with disability needs the support from all walks of life. The Beijing Langtian Company is a socially responsible corporate citizen. The citizens realize that it is necessary to produce such artistic works. They made investments in producing such movie. In order to say something about the movie for it to be true, all the actors and actresses who are disabled are amateur actors and actresses. Also, a lot of sign languages were used in the movie. We believed that during the Paralympic Games, such a movie is a gift commemorating in the Paralympic Games and play a very important role in boasting the care from the society for the persons with disability.

Wang Hui

Thank you, Mr. Wang. I would invite the producer of the movie, Yang Jun.

Yang Jun gives speech at the press conference.

Yang Jun

First I would like to say that the movie 'Blossom' is a fine work of arts. The story is based on the true story from life. The persons depicted in this movie are persons with disability working in the Zhejiang Province Disabled Persons Performing Troupe. During the Paralympic Games, to shoot such a movie is because of our consideration that Paralympic Games is not only a sports gathering abut also a festival for the persons with disability. Therefore, during the Paralympic Games, we want to shoot artistic achievement made by the persons with disability. We believe that movie can better inspire the athletes to achieve even better results. That is one of our wishes. Film makings such as movie, I would like to invite the actresses for this movie. I am sorry that I forgot to introduce one of the actors for that movie, Mr. Hu Jian. Now the floor is yours, Mr. Hu Jian.

Hu Jian gives speech at the press conference.

Hu Jian

I played a role ain that movie. The biggest thing I have learned from that movie is that I become more confident than before because for persons with disability, they might not be as good as normal persons. But with effort, we can do even better than normal persons.

Yao Xingtong gives speech at the press conference.

Yao Xingtong

I played the blind person, Yue Ming. This movie is a true story. Yue Ming is based on the true person by the name of Chen Minmin in Zhejiang Disabled Persons Troupe. We want to show this movie to you. We produced this movie to you. We hope that more people would give support and assistant and care to the persons with disability so that more people can be involved in building a better life for the persons with disability.

Gu Qinye gives speech at the press conference.

Gu Qinye

My names is Gu Qinye. In that movie, the role I played is called Qiao Yin, a dancing person of Disabled Persons Troupe. I am a sophomore college student in Zhejiang. By playing the role in that movie, I believe there are a lot of persons caring for the disabled persons around us in everyday life. There are a lot of such people so that we can show our capabilities and talents on the platform. I would like to thank each and every one of you present here.

Sun Qiaoling gives speech at the press conference.

Sun Qiaoling

I am quite moved at the beginning. After the movie, when the main producing team went to Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province, I felt that this would be impossible. As the director of Zhejiang Disabled Persons Artistic Troupe, this movie is going to be shown in MPC of the Paralympic Games. I feel very pleased. Also, I am grateful for each of the journalists present here. I believe by being involved in that movie, I was in a hurry in accepting the role.

At the beginning, they want a professional actress for this role. But because of a lot of sign language was to be used in the movie, I was selected to play a role in that move. I was feeling that this would be impossible. By the effort made by all the production team, all involved in this movie I saw this movie was made. Today, I am here not in capacity of the director of Zhejiang Perfoming

Artistic Troupe, but rather as disabled person, would love to say there is a lot of hope for the persons with disability. Around us, there are a lot of people like Mr. Yang Jun, a lot of such business people who really care about the disabled persons. As the director of that artistic performing art, I ask all the members of the troop to be grateful. We should be grateful for even small things given to us.

On behalf of that artistic performing troupe, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Beijing Langtian Company and also to all those who have helped us.

Wang Hui

I can see that she is very much excited and very much moved. Now I would like to invite Mr. Zhao Dongming to say a few words about the movie who is the director of BOCOG Cultural Activities Department.