News from the School of Educational Information Technology (Correspondent: Kong Qingpeng)

On November 27, at the invitation of the International Emmy Awards Organizing Committee, Sun Ning, director of Herons and 1992 excellent alumni of the School of Educational Information Technology in Central China Normal University, attended the 47th International Emmy Awards Grand Ceremony in New York. At the ceremony, Herons won the special contribution of the International Emmy Awards.

As China's first panoramic sound natural movie, Herons recently released its International poster. The poster shows the heron soaring with wings in hand-drawn form, and the details of heron feeding young birds are presented. It is reported that Herons tells the survival story of a heron "Ze Yi" in the wetland ecological zone in the middle Yellow River in China, which will land on the national cinema on January 1, 2020.

Herons has been shooting since 2015, lasting for five years. Director Sun Ning took the team on the cliffs to shoot, challenging the severe cold and heat, and the difficulty of the shooting is self-evident. Sun Ning said that documentaries are particularly like herons. In order to make a satisfactory work, they must stand loneliness. In order to capture useful material, the team comes out early and returns late, sometimes working more than 15 hours a day. It is precisely because of the passion for the documentary that the material is accumulated little by little until the story is formed. This is the work. "It's very important and grateful for me to have the opportunity to create." Sun Ning said, " I always believe that you will be lucky if you are in awe of nature, awe of life, persist in love, and love persistence. It is hoped that when it is released in China in New Year's Day in 2020, it will bring a different audiovisual experience to the audience, so that the audience can experience the beauty of life and the power of motherhood of the natural world."

The Emmy Awards was founded by the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1948. As the most authoritative award in the American radio and television industry, the Emmy Awards are the highest awards in the American television industry and also representing the highest honor in the international television industry Awards. Herons was specially invited by the 47th International Emmy Awards’ organizing committee of Art films and the Documentary. The film's beautiful picture, complete story, distinctive structure, intelligent audiovisual language, and unique Chinese emotional characteristics were recognized by the jury.

Sun Ning graduated from the Department of the Information Technology of CCNU, (now the School of Educational Information Technology) in 1996, majoring in educational technology. After graduation, he insisted on studying excellent Chinese and foreign documentaries and was engaged in documentary creation for more than ten years. In 2011, Henan Liangpin Culture Media Co., Ltd. was established with the purpose of creating excellent documentaries. In 2014, it began to set up a large-scale wildlife documentary film, The Big Swan. It’s the first documentary truly recorded the wintering, migration and reproduction of swan in China. The film has won the "Five One Project Award" in Henan Province, and the 6th "China Documentary Academy Award" for the Best Photography Award, Nomination Work Award and other awards. It is one of the first batch of outstanding domestic documentaries evaluated by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television in 2017. "Big Swan" was widely praised after it was broadcasted on CCTV-9 at 8 PM in February 2017, making the city business card of "Yellow River Sanmenxia, Beautiful Swan City" more popular throughout the country. This event was named the 2017 Top Ten Cultural Events in Sanmenxia City. Sun Ning himself was also named as one of the top ten cultural figures of Sanmenxia in 2017.

(Source: People's Daily Online, CCTV International Online, Netease Entertainment, Website of College of Education and Website of the School of Educational Information Technology of Central China Normal University, etc.)