Nanjing student, who is studying at Columbia University, has won an Emmy for her one-minute microfilm Nanjing Peacemaker.
Luo Yiyun shot the film using only her cellphone, a selfie stick and US$100. Luo’s film beat 200 other competitors worldwide. She also won the highest award for the Female Peacemaker section at the International Emmy Awards.
Her film features a dialogue between herself and her grandmother, who survived the massacre, and highlights Miss Minnie Vautrin as her inspiration for peace.
“The stories my grandma told me about [the] Nanjing Massacre have a lasting influence on me,” Luo was quoted as saying, “Forgetting history is [a] betrayal. The history of Nanjing Massacre should be revealed to the whole world”.
If you have been following this week’s Nanjinger chronology of Minnie Vautrin and John Rabe, you will know the story of Miss Vautrin and how she came to save over 200,000 Nanjing women and children during the war.
The Nanjing massacre has, in the past, been called “the forgotten part of WWII”; that is until now. Great lengths are being made by the Chinese people to reveal the massacre to the Western world via media, publication and entertainment channels to name a few.
A new historical docu-drama “Scars of Nanking”, which has been co-produced by A+E Networks and the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation, debuted on the History Channel in the U.S on December 13; the day of the 80th Anniversary of the massacre.
The first ever of it’s kind about the Nanjing massacre aired in a Western country; the documentary is a story of the Western heroes who stayed behind to fend off the Japanese from Chinese civilians in 1937 Nanjing.
“We are very honoured to make such a film with China’s Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation. We expound the story from a Western perspective and wish to let more audience know about the historical truth,” Edward Sabin, Executive Director of A+E Networks was quoted as saying.
