Six-episode documentary enters final shooting stage

A six-episode documentary, Dahuangshan, held a news conference in Beijing on Oct 11. The show is jointly produced by CCTV and Anhui Radio and TV Station. It is jointly held by CCTV Documentary Channel and Anhui Radio and TV Social Education Overseas Center. The show is now entering its final phase of production and is expected to air in the second half of next year on CCTV and Anhui TV.

Huangshan Mountain is a unique natural space, historic space and human space important to the development of Chinese civilization. As a world cultural and natural heritage, Huangshan Mountain is an important symbol and carrier of Anhui culture. For a long time, Huangshan Mountain has been an important topic among Chinese TV producers and international documentary filmmakers.

The Dahuangshan documentary has assembled top-notch producing teams from home and abroad to capture the unique aspects of Huangshan Mountain. The project will help promote the area to domestic and international audiences. The show has been in development for over a year. Huangshan in Anhui, Five Mountains, Distant Fairyland and other Huangshan scenic spots will be of the main focus of photography. The show seeks to better acquaint audiences with Anhui's culture and Huanshan Mountain.

In order to photograph the brilliant scenery in Huangshan Mountain, CCTV invited an international photography team from Austria and several domestic special photography teams to utilize new scientific methods for aerial photography, trick photography, video reproduction and animation production. It will present a never-before seen Huangshan Mountain to audiences at home and abroad.

In addition to this, the show will pull thematically from the popular documentary A Bite of China to try to add a human element to the story. The shooting team will focus on the everyday lives of common people, such as cleaners, laborers, weathermen and pine tree protectors. Their lives will reflect the true story of Huangshan Mountain.

The show will also cover Anhui cuisine and Huizhou merchants. Since the CCTV Documentary Channel was established two years ago, cooperation has been established in many provincial and municipal propaganda departments and TV stations across the nation. At present, apart from Dahuangshan, CCTV-9 also produces Five Roads with Tianjin Radio and TV Station, Yungang with Shanxi Radio and TV Station, and 800 Years of Chu State with Hubei Radio and TV Station.

The official premiere of Dahuangshan will represent a new attempt to utilize resources for cultural growth. It is another exploration and innovation between CCTV and various provincial and municipal documentary channels. It will have a significant influence on future projects and programming.

（anhuinews.com）