
FROZEN BROTHERS tells about Wang, an ordinary Chinese man who's known among his colleagues as a workaholic, a patient husband, and a loving father. His life's story mirrors the social drama of our contemporary society and reveals the growing fertility-pressure of the 21st century generation in the big cities.



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CHINA'S 1ST 4K FEATURE FILM SHOT WITH MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
CHINA'S 1ST TEST-TUBE BABY BOOM MOVIE
Since the 1992 revival of the Chinese economic reform, China overtook Japan as the world's second-largest economy in 2010 and continues to strive under President Xi Jinping. But behind this supposedly success, various social problems, faced extensively by the younger generation, have gradually emerged over the past three decades. Many ordinary young Chinese have flooded the big cities from rural areas and small cities. They are facing an increasing pressure to survive within this growing economy. Housing, education, medical- and elderly care are constantly increasing the costs of living.
The fast-paced, high-pressure working system is also constantly squeezing young people's time and their pockets, pushing them into an unhealthy lifestyle, and leaving them almost no time to get married and raise the next generation. That's also, why more and more Chinese families are facing an infertility problem, produced by a constant level of distress, an unhealthy diet and no sports. Even with the encouragement of the government’s full liberalization of the three-child policy, China's fertility rate is still declining, and the aging degree is getting higher and higher, with the population's trend entering a turning point.
The infertility question therefore poses a strong threat to the growth of an entire nation and the survival of coming generations, opening the stage for the TEST-TUBE GENERATION and its recent boom: A woman who gained fame more than 3 decades ago as China’s first test-tube baby gave birth to a baby boy in Beijing in April 2019. Zheng Mengzhu was born at Peking University Third Hospital on March 10, 1988, a decade after the world’s first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in Britain. Zheng had a boy at the same hospital in 2019 through caesarean section, Beijing Daily reported. He weighed 3.85kg and doctors said he was healthy. Qiao Jie, director of the hospital said that "China's test-tube baby technology has reached leading levels in the world". Qiao said people were worried about whether a person born via test-tube technology could naturally reproduce. Though many test-tube babies became adults and had their own children, the figure is not large. "The birth today is further proof of the safety of assisted reproductive technology."
From the perspective of an ordinary person, FROZEN BROTHERS therefore outlines the current social-pressure situation of Chinese people in a big city like Chengdu and gives glimpses into the different stories of several typical kinds of Chinese families, taking the audience on a rollercoaster of happiness, sadness and hope.
Each of these stories in the movie is based on true events.
FROZEN BROTHERS is the first feature film in Chinese film history approved by the ministry to screen the topic of the test-tube baby boom, making it a nation-wide, discussed topic.
FROZEN BROTHERS is also China's first 4K feature film entirely shot with mobile technology on smartphones by HONOR.
GENFILMS hopes to continue producing more mobile phone feature films the coming years and evolve into a leading part of the film Industry in order to open up the chances for other Indie-Filmmakers around the globe when producing cost-effective movies, shorts and documentaries.

ALAN WANG
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
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