I Am a Pepper Picker

I Am a Pepper Picker

ZHANG Huancai •

Duration: 00:29:31
Language: Shaanxi Guanzhong dialect
Subtitles: Chinese, English
Country/Region: Mainland China

Set in the 1980s, the film follows female “pepper pickers” from Heyang, Shaanxi, who travel to Han City—famous for its red-robed pepper—to harvest on mountain tops. Each year, over 100,000 such workers arrive, forming a vivid portrait of rural women’s labor and migration.

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

Golden Kapok Screening

Guang Zhou

2024

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

ZHANG Huancai

ZHANG Huancai

Director

Zhang Huancai, a farmer, likes to record life with a camera, and the experience of picking pepper in Han City is impressive. I once a piece of reportage with the same title, and a small title in the text is “Spicy lower body”, that feeling of numbness and tingling in the body, the fear and discomfort will always be remembered in my life, unfortunately,the documentary can not record this unforgettable memory.

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