Expedition China

The documentary is about the making of a feature about the natural world of China. The crew works in places that are hard to reach and hard to bear. The labour of the people carrying the cameras stands at the centre. The film shows how nature documentaries get made; it tells the process rather than the result. The footage was gathered during the preparation of the Disneynature feature Born in China. How much patience it takes to film the natural world is the point the account keeps returning to. The working conditions of those who want to film wildlife are part of the story as well. Wildlife photography itself is one of the subjects the documentary takes up. Maggie Q appears in the film. Ben Wallis’s seventy eight minute American documentary was completed in 2017.