Ascension
2022
DVD
Nominated for Best Documentary by the Director's Guild, Producer's Guild, Independent Spirit Awards, and Gotham Awards, and winner of Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, this film explores the paradoxical pursuit of wealth and progress in China. Loosely structured around the distinct social and economic classes that divide the nation, this extraordinary documentary follows factory workers, middle class consumers and elites as they chase the elusive "Chinese Dream."
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (97 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby Digital 5.1
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note:
- E.
- Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Notes:
- Originally produced as a documentary film in 2021.
- Special features: Q&A with filmmakers following the world premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival; theatrical trailer.
- Title from container.
- Cinematography, Jessica Kingdon, Nathan Truesdell ; editor, Jessica Kingdon ; music, Dan Deacon.
- DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- For private home use only.
- Audio tracks in Chinese (Mandarin), with optional subtitles in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number: GF059
Control Number: 3188030
UPC: 850040599015
Publisher: New York, NY : Grasshopper Film, [2022]Subjects:
- Capitalism -- Social aspects -- China.
- China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
- China -- Social conditions -- 2000-
- Industrial productivity -- China.
- Social classes -- China.
Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures, Chinese.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Chicken & Egg Pictures (Firm), production company.
- Firelight Media, production company.
- Grasshopper Film (Firm), publisher.
- Kingdon, Jessica, film director, film producer.
- MTV Documentary Films, presenter.
- Simon-Kennedy, Kira, film producer.
- Truesdell, Nathan, film producer.
- XTR (Firm), production company.