China's Wild West

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China's Wild West
Directed byUrszula Pontikos
Produced byMichael Riley
CinematographyUrszula Pontikos
Edited byMaya Maffioli
Music byGareth Lockrane
Production
company
Distributed by Indieflix
Release date
  • 2008 (2008)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageUyghur

China's Wild West is a 2008 British documentary directed by Urszula Pontikos. [1]

The film follows the sisyphean efforts of a rural Uyghur community digging for jade, which is 40 times more valuable than gold, in the harsh conditions of a river bed in the remote town of Hotan in Xinjiang, western China. [2] [3]

The film received its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, [4] and its European premiere at the 2009 One World Film Festival. [5] The film has subsequently screened at many human rights, documentary and ethnographic international film festivals including Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, [6] True/False Film Festival, [7] and AFI Silverdocs. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "China's Wild West". UK Films Database. British Council . Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  2. ↑ "Changing Paths". Google Arts & Culture . Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  3. ↑ "China's Wild West". DocuDays UA . Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "Sundance to screen 96 short films". Variety . 9 December 2008. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  5. ↑ "Edition 2009". One World Film Festival . Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  6. ↑ Thompson, Hobert (1 April 2009). "Finding gems among the documentary short subjects". Indy Week . Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  7. ↑ "Shorts". True/False Film Festival . 2009. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  8. ↑ "Repertory". The Washington Post . 11 June 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2025.


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