Pretty Big Feet

Pretty Big Feet
poster
Traditional Chinese	美麗的大腳
Simplified Chinese	美丽的大脚
Literal meaning	Beautiful Big Feet
Hanyu Pinyin	Měilì de dà jiǎo
Directed by	Yang Yazhou
Written by	Li Wei
Starring	Ni Ping Yuan Quan Sun Haiying Xu Yajun Yang Jiahe
Cinematography	Wang Xiaoming
Music by	Zhao Jiping
Production companies	Xi'an Film Studio China Television Media
Running time	103 minutes
Country	China
Languages	Lanyin Mandarin, Standard Mandarin

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

Award	Category	Individual	Result
2002 Golden Rooster Awards (22nd)	Best Picture		Won
	Best Director	Yang Yazhou	Won
	Best Actress	Ni Ping	Won
	Best Supporting Actress	Yuan Quan	Won
	Best Supporting Actor	Sun Haiying	Nominated
	Best Writing	Li Wei	Nominated
	Best Cinematographer	Wang Xiaoming	Nominated
2003 Beijing College Student Film Festival	Best Actress	Ni Ping	Won
2003 Golden Phoenix Awards	Best Actress	Ni Ping	Won
2003 Huabiao Awards	Huabiao Award for Outstanding Actress	Ni Ping	Won
	Huabiao Award for Outstanding Director	Yang Yazhou	Won
	Huabiao Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress	Yuan Quan	Nominated
2003 Hundred Flowers Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Yuan Quan	Won

External links

• For the Children at IMDb
• Course materials from the College of Wooster: Character Summaries^[permanent dead link‍], Student Reviews