Li Jinghong and Zhang Hua are independent filmmakers. Their bottom-up documentaries probe the social and emotional problems of ordinary people. Some of their works have been shown on China's state-run television.

Citizen Filmmakers is one dispatch from Beijing Beat, a series of intimate reports produced in the Bay Area and Beijing by a team of digital journalists from the Center for Digital TV and the World at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. See all the reports at washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/beijingbeat/.