
Cutting light to shadow
XIAO Runqi • 2025
Cutting Light to Shadow documents the Tengchong Liu Family Shadow Puppet Troupe: Elder artists adhere to tradition while the younger generation innovates in dissemination, presenting the conflict between the old and the new and the predicament of intangible cultural heritage inheritance.
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Ethnografilm Paris
France
2026
International Folklore Film Festival
India
2025
Best Academic Exploration Award
Chinese Music Ethnographic Film Festival
China
2024
First Prize
Sichuan Province College Students' Intangible Cultural Heritage Video Innovation Competition
China
2024
Outstanding Student Film
Film and Video Anthropology Branch of the Chinese Society of Ethnology
China
2024
Macau International Movie Festival
Macau
2024
Core Journal "Chinese Music"
China
2024
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