Li Pingru (Judy Lee) shoots teaser for Polluted

**Shanghai 14, January 2011 – 

Li Pingru (Judy Lee) filmed a teaser trailer for her upcoming short film “Polluted”**

The short film POLLUTED, directed by  Li Pingru (Judy Lee) is a short film about crossing boundaries in modern China, where many things are forbidden — Including shooting this film.

POLLUTED is a narrative fiction short film that could be ripped from the pages of the news. Except that the news is censored in China. When a disaster happens in China, local reporters are forbidden to report and international reporters are blocked from the region.

POLLUTED follows JIM, an expatriate journalist committed to making a photographic expose about an ecological disaster in Northern China. It has been forbidden from local media and foreign press are restricted from traveling to this area.

Jim enlists Zheng Yi “Jenny”, a local college student, as his translator to travel to the site of a chemical spill in a small North China village that has been officially denied by the local government. He is determined to get the story to the international media at all costs. His student translator fears the repercussions for her assistance to this foreigner. She is strengthened by the foreigner’s convictions and drive and together they cross the restricted boundary to get his story.

When Jenny succumbs to her attraction for this handsome young reporter, she discovers that they have crossed other restricted boundaries as well.

Judy Lee (Li Pingru) is an international award winning Indie filmmaker who currently works in Shanghai. She studied “digital filmmaking and directing in The TV & Film School of China Media University. Judy was the China Representative of Sandy Frank Entertainment Inc. in Shanghai, sourcing and distributing TV programs for its US head office based in New York. Now she works as director for Hansheng Media (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.

Filmography (as produced and director)

1.Chengdu Graffiti (Documentary) Semi-finalist of 39th Houston Int’l Film Festival.

2.The Psychologist and His Client (Short drama, winner of the Platinum Award for Edit-short of the 40th Houston Int’l Film Festival.

3.A View to A Kill (Short drama, winner of the First Place of the 4th Meiwenti Shanghai Int’l Short Film Contest.

4.White Rose Requiem (Short drama, screened in 13rd New York Int’l Independent Film & Video Festival; Semi-finalist of 2008 Hollywood Action/Cut Short Film Competition)

About OBSCURE PRODUCTIONS

Obscure Productions is founded to make international films within the China market. Few foreign filmmakers can successfully take advantage of the cost savings in China or can produce stories that resonate within the Chinese culture. Few Chinese filmmakers can make films that are accessible to an international audience. That is our niche.

We are a Shanghai-based film and video production company with experience in both documentary and narrative film as well as corporate video. We work with and support the community of independent Chinese and Expatriate fIlm makers.