Weijun Chen

[1] By recording the catastrophe caused by AIDS in Ma's family through heat summer, mid autumn, freezing winter and the Spring Festival, the unemotional cinematography style telling a heartbreaking story.

Chen said it is hard to portray democracy in China, the Please Vote for Me (2007) story just come to his mind, when he knew a colleague's child is going to have an election for monitor in his class.

Because "children are like mirrors that reflects the truth", so he decided to shoot a "real" democracy election in a third-grade class of Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan.

It takes Weijiun Chen and his team more than 700 days to track families in the department of gynecology in Wuhan University Zhongnan Hospital.

The Chinese title of this film is "Sheng Men" (生门), according to the director, which means those mothers who crossed from the gate of life and death.