"Hua Mulan," a film by Jingle Ma and Wei Dongis, is one of the films featured in the 48th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. (Photo : Google)
The 48th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival recognized the value of Chinese films for the first time as they held an event called "China Day" on April 11, Saturday, in appreciation for Chinese films.
Considered as the third-largest film festival in North America, Houston Film Fest featured four films and three short documentaries in a unit called "Panorama China."
The films received positive response from the locals as well as the respected persons from the movie industry.
"Walking to School," "China Women," "Hua Mulan" and "So Young" were the Chinese films presented in the festival.
"Hua Mulan" is a 2009 film directed by Jingle Ma and Wei Dongis. It is an epic story about a Chinese girl-warrior Mulan who fights to defend her father.
The film won awards including Best Actress, Best Original Song and Best Original Film Song.
Peng Chen, director of "Walking to School," said that he hopes the film would be appreciated in America and for Americans to have a deeper insight about China, Xinhua reported.
"People here are more familiar with big Chinese cities like Beijing or Shanghai, but they may know practically nothing about life in deep mountains in Yunnan. This is what my film is all about," the director said as quoted by Xinhua.
The festival, also known as WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival, is an annual film festival held in April that recognizes excellence in various types of independent films and filmmaking.
It was founded in 1961 by Hunter Todd in Houston, Texas, and hosted by Houston Film Society, where around 55 to 60 new indie feature films and 100 new indie short films are shown every year.
