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The Role

LINK FILMS, Shanghai / TENCENT / 2019

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Background

99 Public Welfare is China Public Welfare Day launched by Tencent. This documentary is a story about children with cerebral palsy and autism warming up for Public Welfare Week. Through art education, they find the language to express themselves and communicate with the world.

Idea

For 30 years, a pair of mother and son, stick together and help each other in difficulties. For 30 years, son suffered from cerebral palsy, mother lives as most unprivileged. For 30 years, she found her own way to walk through the dark. He tried to make her not alone. For 30 years, these two trapped-on-land fishes moisten each other with moisture and spit to survive.

A bowl of egg Fried rice, a turtle, a painting, a bathtub, laundry, this family leads an ordinary life. But with his cerebral palsy, her companion, his tenacity, and her peace, the fate also brought something extraordinary to this pair of mother and son. After living together for 30 years, they can never be separated from each other. Like Chuang-tzu said in The Grand Master: Spring has dried up, fishes are trapped on the land. So they moisten

Strategy

Use entertainment video to speak out the story of "friends with disabilities" about human developing, evokes resonance. Later, the online social event "A meme gallery" was published to create a nationwide booming phenomenon of fund-raising.

Execution

The film starts with an online campaign to raise money. Creating propagation fission effect

Outcome

Although the film did not create traffic, the film, on the contrary, touched countless people in major documentaries and advertising festivals and became a short film masterpiece. At the same time, online influence is somewhat affected by it. It has set an unprecedented record for China's public welfare to raise 15 million yuan in five hours.

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