What is your happiest moment? Your most painful one? Are you stressed out? What do you value the most? What do you think of birth, old age, sickness and death? What do you think people live for...? These are the topics that Dr. Yao Shuai talks with patients and their families outside of work. Yao Shuai is a cardiovascular physician. He has been taking black and white portraits of patients and their families in the hospital for three years. He has photographed more than 600 people and over 10,000 photos. Each photo documents a spiritual healing, human stories, and also humanistic studies.

Yitong Zheng, the director of the international award-winning documentary programme, C'est La Vie, Phoenix TV. He has joined Phoenix TV for 4 years after graduating from Communication University of China. His work, 10 days of Farewell, won the Gold Medal award for Human Concerns Documentary at New York Festivals of TV & Film in 2019.

Hanqi Jiang is the Director of Partnerships and Development of Phoenix TV, the Assistant Producer and Director of C'est La Vie, an internationally award-winning documentary programme of Phoenix TV. Jiang specializes in establishing global partnerships and collaborations for Phoenix TV. She works closely with international film festivals and documentary forums. Jiang serves as decision maker and panelist for many international festivals including International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and DMZ International Documentary Film Festival. Jiang’s documentary series The Boyhood (《少年时代》) was shortlisted for Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China, in 2019.

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