Runtime: 39 minutes Country of Origin: USA

Language: Mandarin with English subtitles English with Mandarin subtitles

Genre: Documentary Unrated

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ABOUT THE FILM Synopsis: In 1937, an orphaned Chinese girl and an American missionary with a camera came face-to-face in a moment that shaped history. Images from that encounter established evidence of one of the world’s worst atrocities, and a legacy that spans eight decades. At age eight, Xia Shuqin and her younger sister witnessed the murder of their entire family in what became known as the Nanjing Massacre. In the days that followed, an American missionary named John Magee documented the horror, filming the little girls in front of the remains of their family home, creating evidence of the carnage and binding his family and theirs forever. The Girl and the Picture brings together direct descendants of this history as Madame Xia, at 88, shares her memories with her granddaughter, her seven-year-old great-grandson, and with Chris Magee, the grandson of the missionary who captured her image eight decades earlier. The Girl and the Picture brings to light the power of memory to connect generations and create a shared legacy of family, loss, and survival. The film is presented by USC Shoah Foundation, which was founded by Steven Spielberg with a mission to record eyewitness testimonies of the Holocaust and other genocides. Short Synopsis: In The Girl and the Picture, an orphaned Chinese girl and an American missionary with a camera came face-to-face in a moment that shaped history. Images from that encounter established evidence of one of the world’s worst atrocities – the Nanjing Massacre - and a legacy that spans eight decades. The Girl and the Picture reunites direct descendants of this history, and brings to light the power of memory to connect generations and create a shared legacy of family, loss, and survival.

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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT The Girl and the Picture is about the power of voice and story. It is about standing up and speaking out to bear witness to world events, and it is about sharing personal history so that the past is not forgotten. In this spirit, this film focuses on the life and legacy of 88-year-old Madame Xia, one of the last remaining survivors of the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, which in and of itself is a gift to us, as so many know little to nothing of these horrific events. When I came to the project, I knew that Madame Xia had been interviewed many times about the day when she was eight years old and her entire family was massacred. These interviews for news and films across the world were vital to providing personal testimony to an event that has less than 100 survivors. She gave a human face to the suffering of so many. Her story is also part of the profoundly moving Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders museum in Nanjing as well as a pioneering and extraordinary project by USC Shoah Foundation called New Dimensions in Testimony. Madame Xia’s personal story has been well-documented. In fact, her story was documented for the first time just two weeks after the massacre when she was visited by John Magee. An American missionary in China, Magee was so horrified by the atrocities he witnessed that he turned his 16mm home movie camera into a tool to record what he saw and to show the world what happened in Nanjing. He sent those films, including the images of eight-year-old Xia Shuqin, to Life Magazine, to the U.S. film division, and to governments around the world. He also showed them at the first international war tribunal for crimes against humanity. Even with all that Madame Xia has done to make her existence, her loss, and her survival known – I saw a void in the storytelling – which was in the passing down of personal and family history to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. And this, I believe, is perhaps one of the most important and overlooked forms of keeping history present and human. It is the way we can most immediately feel connected to the past and each other – because, after all, our ancestors’ stories are our stories. And so, it is with this lens that I approached the film.

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While Chris Magee, the grandson of John Magee comes to Nanjing to trace the footsteps of his grandfather so that he can bear witness to his own family story, our film also glimpses the sweet and special relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. Madame Xia spends time with her granddaughter Yuan, and seven-year-old great-grandson Yuhan, telling her story of their lost ancestors and hardships she lived through before becoming their grandmother. And then, in turn, to preserve the story of her grandmother for future generations of the Xia family, Yuan bears witness herself, by writing the story down as a letter to her son, ensuring that none of this personal family history is ever forgotten. In the end, I hope that this film is a symbol of the power and importance of bearing witness, and then passing down that family history to bridge generations and preserve our shared history in order to better know our past and ourselves - and to never forget.

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ABOUT THE TEAM Vanessa Roth – Producer/Director/Writer, The Girl and the Picture An Academy Award-winning filmmaker for Freeheld and Executive Producer, Writer, and Director of the internationally acclaimed Original Netflix Documentary Series Daughters of Destiny. Roth’s dozens of social impact films have been seen worldwide and have earned her prestigious honors, including a DuPont-Columbia Award, Sundance Special Jury Prizes, Cine Golden Eagles, Casey Medals, International Awards for Social Justice, and Honors for Women in Film. The goal of Ms. Roth’s work is to ignite conversation, awareness, and action around urgent social justice issues through projects that are made in close collaboration with the people in her films so that they are authentic and intimate portraits with personal storytelling at their core. Vanessa received a master’s degree in social work and a minor in family law from Columbia University. Stephen D. Smith – Producer, The Girl and the Picture Dr. Stephen D. Smith is the Finci-Viterbi Endowed Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation, and holds the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education. Smith founded the UK Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, England and co-founded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity. Dr. Smith’s passion for telling survivors’ stories have led him to serve as Executive Producer on a variety of film projects, including One Day in Auschwitz, Destination Unknown, and the film Auschwitz by James Moll. Stephen and USC Shoah Foundation have also produced a number of film and new media projects, including New Dimensions in Testimony, the 360* film Lala, and the groundbreaking Virtual Reality experience The Last Goodbye. In recognition of his work, Smith has become a member of the Order of the British Empire and received the Interfaith Gold Medallion. He also holds two honorary doctorates and lectures widely on issues relating to the history and collective response to the Holocaust, genocide, crimes against humanity, and the power of story.

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Devorah Palladino – Producer, The Girl and the Picture Co-Producer/Field Director of Daughters of Destiny, The Texas Promise, and UNESCO’s The Present Is Ours as well as many social action campaigns with Director Vanessa Roth. Devorah also produced CNN’s This is Life with Lisa Ling and Florence, Arizona. She received a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Argentina where she studied documentary film as a tool for cross-cultural understanding. Andi Gitow – Executive Producer, The Girl and the Picture A two-time Emmy award-winning journalist, filmmaker and strategic communication specialist, Andi Gitow is the current Director of Strategy, Partnerships, and Media Production at USC Shoah Foundation. Prior to this work, Ms. Gitow was the Deputy Director of the United Nations representative office in Washington, acting as a representative to the U.S. administration and Capitol Hill. She has worked at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in a variety of roles, including as Head of Global Campaigns, Films and Special Projects for the Humanitarian arm of the UN, and as Acting Chief of Partnerships in the UN’s News and Media Division. Prior to this, Andi helped oversee the creation of award-winning broadcast and digital content, as Executive Producer in the UN News and Media Division. She also worked at NBC Network News in New York as a Producer and Senior Producer. Andi received an undergraduate degree and a Masters Degree from Columbia University. Daniel B. Gold - Director of Photography, The Girl and the Picture His DP work includes dozens of international award-winning films, including The 2017 Netflix Series Daughters of Destiny, the 2015 Tribeca Premiere Indian Point, Selfie, A Place At The Table, The American Experience, Frontline, American Teacher, The Greater Good, Born Sweet, Breaking The Violence, Colonial House, Saint Misbehavin and now, The Girl and the Picture. Gold’s camerawork has also frequently been seen on Saturday Night Live, Dateline NBC, and the Hallmark Channel.

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Livio Sanchez – Editor, The Girl and the Picture Livio is an award-winning, world-renowned editor with an extensive and diverse body of work, including independent films, documentaries, music videos, commercials, and virtual reality immersive experiences. He has worked with such notable directors as Kathryn Bigelow, Sebastian Cordero, Scott Hicks, The Hughes Brothers, Janusz Kaminski, Chris Milk, Vanessa Roth, Adam Shankman, and Marc Webb. Livio has been honored with numerous awards for editing, including Clio, Cannes, and D&AD Advertising Awards, as well AICP, AICE, and MVPA. John Zecca - Lead Sound Recordist, The Girl and the Picture John is an award-winning sound operator who has overseen and recorded sound for hundreds of films and television shows. His work can be heard in Daughters of Destiny, The American Experience, The Central Park Five, Jazz, Client 9, Years Of Living Dangerously, The Natural World, Independent Lens, Baseball, American Masters, The Nova Series, Frank Lloyd Wright, Cronkite Remembers, The Texas Promise and now, The Girl and the Picture. McKenzie Stubbert – Composer, The Girl and the Picture Emmy-nominated composer McKenzie Stubbert has scored award-winning films and some of the pioneering works in the new medium of VR. He has worked with directors like Chris Milk, Kathryn Bigelow, David Gelb, and Academy Award-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. The New York Times VR documentary The Displaced won the 2016 Cannes Lions Grand Prix. In 2017 he scored the CNN Films documentary ELIÁN for Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions. Cheng Fang – Nanjing Production/USC Shoah Foundation Liasion, The Girl and the Picture Cheng Fang graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts and has worked as the project specialist for USC Shoah Foundation's Nanjing Massacre collection and associated projects since 2015. He is currently based in Nanjing, China.

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Ruohan Xu – Assistant Editor/Translator, The Girl and the Picture Ruohan was born and raised in China, and is dedicated to telling untold stories. She received an M.A. in News and Documentary from New York University and a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism and Social Psychology from the University of Missouri. As a freelance storyteller, she has worked on projects for Guggenheim museum, POV, BBC, CNN, NHK, and Asia Society. She directed and produced the short documentary Dai's Garden, and worked for filmmaker Nanfu Wang on her films, including Hooligan Sparrow and I am Another You. Sam Rutan – Assistant Editor, The Girl and the Picture Sam is a documentary and virtual reality film editor. He was born and raised in Connecticut, and now works in film production and post production in New York City. He graduated from Elon University in 2016 with a B.A. in Strategic Communications and a minor in History. He has worked with Producer/Director Vanessa Roth and Editor Livio Sanchez on projects, including Daughters of Destiny, The Girl and the Picture, Look But With Love, and Le Musk. Violet Du Feng – Translator, The Girl and the Picture Violet is an Emmy award-winning documentary film producer. Feng produced Maine-Land (2017), which received a Special Jury Award at SXSW and is currently in theatrical release in New York and Please Remember Me (2015), which premiered at the 2015 IDFA Film Festival and received three awards at China’s biggest documentary film festival, GZDoc, in 2016. Jing Liu – Translator, The Girl and the Picture Jing graduated from New York University in Documentary Filmmaking. She is now an independent filmmaker in China, interested in topics like urban life, identity, culture, and history. Veronica Wangshen – Translator, The Girl and the Picture Veronica is a Chinese documentary filmmaker with a strong interest in art, humanity, and sociocultural issues. She graduated with master's degrees from Columbia University in history and film studies, and from New York University in documentary filmmaking. She is currently residing in New York City.

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ABOUT THE USC SHOAH FOUNDATION

The USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education - is dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and other witnesses of genocide a compelling voice for education and action. The Institute’s current collection of about 55,000 eyewitness testimonies contained within its Visual History Archive preserves history as told by those who lived it, and lived through it. Housed at the University of Southern California, within the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, The Institute works with partners around the world to advance scholarship and research, to provide resources and online tools for educators, and to disseminate the testimonies for educational purposes via lesson plans, films, and new media.

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CREDITS

A USC SHOAH FOUNDATION

FILM

IN ASSOCIATION WITH Cause & Affect Media

PRODUCED BY Stephen D. Smith Devorah Palladino

MUSIC BY McKenzie Stubbert

EDITED BY Livio Sanchez

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel B. Gold

WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY Vanessa Roth

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Ceci Chan Andi Gitow

LEAD SOUND RECORDIST John Zecca

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ADDITIONAL EDITOR Dahkil Hausif

ASSISTANT EDITORS Sam Rutan Ruohan Xu

SECOND CAMERA AND AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY Liu Jia Qing

ADDITIONAL CAMERA OPERATOR Lee Herbet

ADDITIONAL SOUND OPERATOR Huang Xun

CAMERA ASSISTANT Nicholas Palladino

FIELD PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Sam Rutan

PRODUCTION FIXER Gong Chen (Mickey)

USC SHOAH FOUNDATION PRODUCTION LIAISON Cheng Fang

GAFFER Zhou Shuguang

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BEST BOY Xie Yuanjie

DRIVERS Fan Minggui

Wu Jian Xie Yuanjie

POST FACILITY Spot Welders

PICTURE FINISH Lively Group

SUPERVISING FINISHING ARTIST/COLORIST Sean R. Smith

CONFORM EDITOR Nick Dorman

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Rob Morlano

TITLES BY Erik Braun

SOUND DESIGN AND MIX BY Quentin Chiapetta

MIXED AT mediaNoise NYC

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SCORE PRODUCED AND MIXED BY Mckenzie Stubbert

Pinball Jukebox

MANDARIN TRANSLATORS Veronica Wangshen

Chengzhi Jin Reuohan Xu

Jing Liu

CAUSE & AFFECT MEDIA EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Vanessa Roth Livio Sanchez

SENIOR PRODUCER Devorah Palladino

PRODUCTION AND POST PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Sam Rutan

USC SHOAH FOUNDATION EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION

Kim Simon

EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF OPERATIONS Kori Street

PRODUCTION MANAGER Joan Getman

SPECIAL CONSULTANT TO PRODUCTION Karen Jungblut

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BUDGET AND FINANCE Cynthia Schirmer Zovaira Rodriguez

PRODUCTION SUPPORT Lauren Carter

Zachary Goode Tiffer Boucher

FILM FESTIVAL CONSULTANT Nancy Collet, Cinema Collet

FEATURING Xia Shuqin Xia Yuan Li Yuhan

Chris Magee

SPECIAL THANKS Spot Welders Anna Rotholz Anchor Mak

Linda Granfield The Magee Compound

Hugh Magee Frederick Hugh Magee Frederick Hugh Magree

The Staff and Councilors of USC Shoah Foundation Yale Divinity Library

Martha Smalley Christopher Anderson

SPECIAL THANKS The memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese

Invaders

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DIRECTOR Zhang Jianjun

RESEARCHER OF THE INSTITUTE OF THE NANJING MASSACRE HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL PEACE

Lu Yanming

STAFF Liu Junyun Wang Yukui

ARCHIVAL PHOTOS AND VIDEO COURTESY OF John G. Magee

Yale Divinity Library National Archives and Records Administration

Linda Granfield

PRODUCTION BOOKKEEPER Gigi Lacks

U.S. LEGAL SERVICES Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC

INSURANCE PROVIDED BY C&S International Insurance Brokers, Inc.

MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF Tianfu Bank and Tianfu Group

and Ceci Chan

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