National Geographic Magazine interviewed Brent and Xiaoli and
mentioned "The Women's Kingdom" in a recent story about the Mosuo culture in China.
"The Women's Kingdom" won the Best Documentary Short Award at the
Fresno Film Festival 2009.
Brent Huffman was interviewed at Sundance about his experience shooting "Utopia #3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall" in China.
Curve Magazine recently reviewed "The Women's Kingdom" in its
July/August issue 2009.
"Utopia #3," a segment of Sam Green's "The Universal Language," will premiere at Sundance 2009. Xiaoli Zhou produced and Brent E. Huffman
was cinematographer on the documentary that features the largest mall in the world in China.
"Crime Scene Wild" won Best Environmental Film at The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Brent E. Huffman was cinematographer and producer on the documentary series in Tibet.
Brent E. Huffman was a guest speaker at the 2008 Women in
Photojournalism Conference in New Orleans.
"Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination" was
featured on Good Morning America.
Brent E. Huffman was cinematographer and Xaioli Zhou producer on the documentary about high school education.
A Lion in the House Wins Primetime Emmy:
"A Lion in the House" won a Primetime Emmy in the nonfiction category. Brent E. Huffman was an editor and shooter on the four-hour-long documentary that follows five children as they fight cancer with the help of their families.
Damming the Angry River was a part of the Emmy Winning Season of
Natural Heroes - the first national television series of independent
films on the environment.
The Women's Kingdom is now being distributed by Women Make Movies.
Brooks Institute
Brent E. Huffman and Xiaoli Zhou will show a retrospective of their
work at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Ventura, California.
The filmmakers will also give a lecture about documentary filmmaking
entitled, "Telling Stories about the World to a Worldwide Audience."
Wildlife Asia Film Festival
A selection of German Camera's documentary films featuring endangered animals and vanishing ethnic minority tribes in China will screen at the Wildlife Asia Film Festival in March 2007. The festival, held in Singapore, is Asia's premier wildlife and environmental film festival.
Bust Magazine is doing a story about the German Camera Production "The Women's Kingdom," China's only matriarchy, where girls rule while tourists drool. By Xiaoli Zhou & Brent E. Huffman
PBS' Frontline/World "When filmmaker Brent E. Huffman took a six-month assignment in remotest western China, he knew it would be no ordinary adventure. There with his Chinese-born producer wife, Xiaoli, to film endangered wildlife and minority cultures, Huffman kept a diary and captured images of the beauty of China's last untouched wilderness as well as some of the most polluted, decimated landscapes on the planet." Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
"The Women's Kingdom" is nominated for a 2006 International Documentary
Award
PBS the Oscar Goes To...
We are delighted to report that one of our FRONTLINE/World Fellows,
Xiaoli Zhou, has won a Student Academy Award for her documentary, "The
Women's Kingdom," which we debuted on this Web site last year. To
notify Xiaoli, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had to
track her down in China, where she and her husband Brent Huffman are
working these days, making films about China's remote, wilderness
areas."