REPORT FROM SHANGHAI presents four short video vignettes that explore some of the challenges ordinary people face as the city is remade.
EVICTED, by Joe Mullin, about a man who fought to stay in his family home until it was demolished.
MIGRANTS, by Jonathan Kaminsky, about skilled migrant workers who come from distant provinces to build skyscrapers.
BAR GIRL, by Nagomi Onda, about a woman from the countryside who finds work at a Japanese-style bar.
RETIRED, by Kim Perry, about elderly people adjusting to living apart from their children.
The Digital TV and the World course is taught by veteran China correspondent Todd Carrel and Emmy-award winning documentary maker Christopher Beaver, with technical advisor Milt Wallace.
Digital TV and the World is a multimedia, multi-platform initiative to create new styles of global reportage. Students use small-format, digital cameras and laptop computers to shoot and edit their stories from communities around the world. Many of their reports are published on washingtonpost.com
Please join us for a big screen showing of REPORT FROM SHANGHAI, followed by a question and answer session with the producers, plus print reporters and photographers Sachi Fujimori, Tomio Geron, Ling Liu, Emilie Raguso and Lee Wang.
All of the students took a course on covering China, with background and context taught by professor Carolyn Wakeman and reporting skills taught by Carrel.
The Digital TV and the World special project is supported by gifts from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the broadcast and professional systems division of Sony Electronics, Inc., Apple, and the Graduate School of Journalism. Additional support for REPORT FROM SHANGHAI was provided by institutional and individual gifts from UC BerkeleyÌ¢âÂã¢s Institute of East Asian Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, International and Area Studies and the Program on Mass Communication. ORIAS contributed to outreach and distribution.