Songhua depicts the intimate and complex relationship between Harbin residents and their "mother river," the Songhua in northeastern China. By attending to the everyday activities of leisure and labor unfolding along the banks and promenade, this nonfiction video also explores the interface between aesthetics and ethnography as it addresses environmental crisis within a major waterway of China. Film Festivals, Screenings, Awards Shadow Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007 Jury's Pick Award, Negotiated View Film Festival, Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, 2007 SIGGRAPH, San Diego, California, 2007 Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, 2008 Jury's Pick Award, PLATFORMA Festival, Athens, Greece, 2008 Babel Film Series, Nanning, China, 2008 Jury's Pick Award, Eyes & Lenses Ethnographic Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland, 2008 PDX Film Festival, Portland, Oregon, 2009 Contro-Sguardi: International Anthropological Film Festival, Perugia, Italy, 2010