Title: Above the Ghosts' Heads: The Women of Masanjia Labor Camp
Director: DU Bin
Length: 60 minutes
Subtitles: Chinese and English
Date completed: April 2013
About the director:
Du Bin, born on 1 March 1972 in Tancheng County, Shandong, is also nicknamed "Mimi" by friends for his "dreamy" character. In recent years, he has become an advocate for petitioners and other grass-roots groups. A former photojournalist for China Society Periodical and other media, Du Bin works currently as a freelance photographer for theNew York Times, and his works are widely published in the New York Times, theInternational Herald Tribune, Times and Stars. His photograph "Writing Grievances" won the Close-up Photography award in the 14th Human Rights Press Awards (May 2010). Du's work include Petitioners: Living Fossils Who Survived China's Rule of Law(Ming Pao, 2007); Shanghai Graveyard (Vine Press, 2010); Toothbrush (White Elephant, 2011); Beijing Ghosts (Boxun, 2010); Chairman Mao's Purgatory (Mingjing, 2011); Ai God (Suyuan, 2012); Mao Zedong's Regime of Human Flesh (Mingjing, 2013);Tiananmen Square Massacre (forthcoming); Vaginal Coma (drafted). His micro-documentary series will soon release its first episode "Motherland of Grass-mud Horses".