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Storyville

Total Trust: Surveillance State

Duration: 1 hour, 34 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

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A Storyville documentary that explores, in intimate detail, state surveillance and digital social control in China by following the experiences of two families and a journalist.

Zijuan Chen is fighting for the release of her imprisoned husband, human rights lawyer Weiping Chang, while trying to keep his memory alive for their son.

Wenzu Li and her newly freed husband, Quanzhang Wang, struggle against surveillance that is not only stopping him from being able to work but also affecting ordinary tasks like taking their son to school.

Journalist Sophie Xueqin Huang, a pivotal figure in bringing the Me Too movement to China, is at constant risk of arrest.

Chinese film-maker Jialing Zhang gives an exclusive and previously impossible intimate insight into the interior of China and tells a deeply disturbing story of how the state uses technology to control its citizens as well as propaganda to convince its people to trust it. Show less

Contributors

Director:
Jialing Zhang
Producer:
Knut Jäger
Producer:
Saskia Kress
Producer:
Jialing Zhang
Production Company:
Film Tank
Production Company:
Witfilm

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