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PLEASE VOTE FOR ME

Director - Weijun Chen 
Run Time - 58 minutes
Language - Mandarin w/English subtitles
Format - DVD / Digital Streaming
Year - 2007
Genre - Documentary
Educational Interests - Adolescence, Anthropology, Asia, China,
Education
, Family Relations, Political Science


Institutional DVD Price: $195

 
 
 

Two males and a female vie for office, indulging in low blows and spin, character assassination and gestures of goodwill, all the while gauging their standing with voters. The setting is not the Democratic presidential campaign trail but a third-grade class at an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China.

 

Please Vote for Me, which made the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' documentary feature shortlist, packs its fleet hour with keen observations. Chronicling a public school's first open elections – at stake is the position of class monitor – filmmaker Weijun Chen has crafted a witty, engaging macro-lens view of human nature, China's one-child policy and the democratic electoral process as the ultimate exercise in marketing. (Excerpted from Sheri Linden's review in The Hollywood Reporter)

 

 

"Must-see! Thought-provoking and achingly hilarious." - Variety

 

"Brilliant and utterly enjoyable!" - Documentary Film Magazine (DOX)

 

"Equal parts charmer and exposé... part American Idol, part Survivor." - Washington Post