Pretty Big Feet, released in the United States as For the Children, is a 2002 Chinese film directed by Yang Yazhou. It stars Ni Ping as a teacher in an extremely impoverished and barren town in Ningxia, and Yuan Quan as a volunteer teacher coming from Beijing to help the local education.

The film won 4 awards at the Golden Rooster Awards.

Awards

AwardCategoryIndividualResult
2002 Golden Rooster Awards (22nd)Best PictureWon
Best DirectorYang YazhouWon
Best ActressNi PingWon
Best Supporting ActressYuan QuanWon
Best Supporting ActorSun HaiyingNominated
Best WritingLi WeiNominated
Best CinematographerWang XiaomingNominated
2003 Beijing College Student Film FestivalBest ActressNi PingWon
2003 Golden Phoenix AwardsBest ActressNi PingWon
2003 Huabiao AwardsHuabiao Award for Outstanding ActressNi PingWon
Huabiao Award for Outstanding DirectorYang YazhouWon
Huabiao Award for Outstanding Supporting ActressYuan QuanNominated
2003 Hundred Flowers AwardsBest Supporting ActressYuan QuanWon

External links

  • at IMDb
  • Course materials from the College of Wooster: [permanent dead link],