Luo Tong, a 50-year-old filmmaker, is still called as a "girl" by her former classmates and fellows from a high-school girls' choir in Shanghai, who became famous briefly for their singing talents on the national stage in the early 1990s.
The "Shanghai Girls" chorus members, who are now middle aged, reunited for the first time in decades in 2020 to share their stories, tears and laughter, and reflect on what it means to be a woman. Later, their life stories became a documentary in Luo's hands, titled Shanghai Girls, which hit the screen last November.
The documentary, jointly produced by LP Films and Docu-China Co owned by Shanghai Media Group, won the Best Asian Documentary award in the competition section at the La Femme Independent Film Festival held in Paris, France, in 2023.
Since last November, the film has got 153 preview screenings on the Elemeet platform and drawn about 2,000 audiences across the nation, many of which are young and middle-aged viewers. The farthest screening took place in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
