Film maker Sylvie Levey brings in the social touch

Sylvie Levey

The famous French docu mentary maker Sylvie Levey has this week joined our speakers' bureau. From the upcoming profile:

China's first transsexual, a colonel of the People's Liberation Army changes into a now famous cheographer. The life in a Chinese prison for female inmates. The intimate life of a Shanghai worker's family under the sledgehammer of demolishing. When film director Sylvie Levey tells a story, its goes directly to the heart. Never sensationalist, always eager to show the beautiful gray sides of at life that is often depicted as black and white.

Her last documentary, 'Shanghai, waiting for paradise', gives an intimate look of the live of three generations of Shanghainese living under one roof. Her earlier documentaries, all award-winning, covered the live of female inmates in Shanghai "High Crimes" and the transition from PLA-colonel Jin Xing as China's first transsexual.