Fan Lixin's Documentary Creation Research

Documentary is an important carrier of the national external and cross-cultural communication. Under the trend of transformation in the media industry, it is an effective development strategy for China documentary to have sights on the international market and actively participate in international competition. In recent years, as Chinese's documentary gains a widespread reputation in the international arena, significant achievements and a growing number of awards in a major film festival, China documentary has gradually found its place in the international market.This article is mainly for Fan Lixin who has achieved great success in the field of international documentary creation in the new generation of Chinese independent documentary director.Since the 1990 s, a large number of new generation film creators have sweeping emerging in this period of social change, they live in the absence of strong bondage of traditional ideas, they can express the age they lived and the desire in the inner heart freely, and create many film about realism by individual. as one member of them,Fan Lixin has a unique understanding about social reality under the rapid development of China's economic. He start his documentary film since 1998, Fan Lixin has insist his dream more than 10 years. From "a living dog is better than a dead lion", "along the river and on", the "last train home" and "I am what I am" as you can see, Mr. Fan has strong humanistic care of the ordinary living in the China's high speed development of social economy. He is good at finding the deep story behind them,andrecord his ideas aboutthis through his unique language. After Mr. Fan's firm the last train home has caused a big sensation, Mr Fan doesn't stop going forward, from "last train home",the combination of documentary elements and story elements to "I am what I am" documentary elements and entertainment elements, Fan is always looking for a new breakthrough in the documentary expression form. The attention to the ordinary, the exploration of the aesthetic style in the documentary,the story narration method and the attempt in the documentary expression has been the biggest bright spot on him, as a professional documentary producer with highly developed sense of responsibility and mission.In the film "the last train home", the representative work of Fan who has cost three years on it, whether in the selected topic, financing, shooting, narrative, or post-production,marketing are all successful. Director Fan showa unique social phenomenon in China to the world through this film, and has been a successful case for Chinese independent documentary steps to the international stage better.