One Child Nation (2019)
March 29, 2019Release Date
One Child Nation (2019)
March 29, 2019Release Date
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Currently One Child Nation is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Amazon Prime Video
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.
Nanfu Wang
Self / Director / Editor / Director of Photography / Producer
Jiaoming Pang
Self
Brian Stuy
Self
Longlan Stuy
Self
Yuanchen Liu
Director of Photography
Zhang Jialing
Director / Producer
Christopher Clements
Producer
Julie Goldman
Producer
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One Child Nation is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang about the fallout of China's one-child policy that lasted from 1979 to 2015. The documentary is made up of various interviews with former village chiefs, state officials, ex-human traffickers, artists, midwives, journalists, researchers, and victims of the one-child policy. Nanfu Wang stated, in a roundtable discussion, that when creating the film she wanted to do a "360 degree with the policy—people who carried out the policy and people who were the victims of the policy". During the film, Nanfu Wang discovers more about the ties her own family have with the one-child policy, as they unsuccessfully attempt to locate her cousin who was abandoned by her father’s sister in 1989. By the end of the film, Nanfu Wang admits that despite the horrors of the one-child policy, there is an overwhelming acceptance of the policy that remains in China, and a shared attitude that there was no other choice. The closing scenes of the film show the growing propaganda for two child families, presenting the repetition of state interference with family planning within China.
One Child Nation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019, where it was awarded the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Award, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 9, 2019, by Amazon Studios.