Director's Statement

I spent three years filming four young female migrant workers in Beijing. As an urban dweller, I had had many pre-conceived notions about these girls from the countryside. What I discovered, however, left me speechless. Out of Phoenix Bridge is indeed a record of this speechless process.
I first met these girls in a small room in Beijing. Four girls were crammed into this space of less than six square meters, yet those days might be the freest time of their lives. Before they had come to Beijing, in their hometown, they were daughters belonging to their parents; when they go back to Phoenix Bridge, they would be wives belonging to their husbands. It was only in Beijing that they could have a slice of dream, dreaming of changing their fate.