In 1994, Feng Yan began to shoot a large number of documentary works using Super 8mm films and DV.
She then returned to The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, this time as a writer.
However, despite the hardships, Zhang Bing'ai is full of hope for the future because her son is the only child in the village who has been admitted to the county's key high school.
She is currently preparing for her next documentary - The Women Along the Bank of the Yangtze River《长江边的女人》, which will weave the stories of four women in a span of ten years in the Three Gorges to depict their ordinary lives as well as their ideals and real life dilemmas under the background of immigration.
[citation needed] Feng Yan now lives and works in Beijing, and continues to film documentaries.