To Live to Sing

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About the film

To Live to Sing

Release Date: November 20, 2019

Year	:	2019
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Genres	:	Drama
Production Companies	:	Image X Productions, House on Fire, Shanghai Tongyue Industrial Co., Ltd, Shenzhen Ming Culture Communication Co.,Ltd
Director	:	Johnny Ma
Producers	:	Matt Drake, Vincent Wang, Wu Xian Jian, Amanda Verhagen, Jing Wang
Writers	:	Johnny Ma
RunTime	:	105 mins.

Zhao Li manages a Sichuan Opera troupe that lives and performs together in a rundown theatre in the outskirts of Chengdu. When she receives an order of demolition, she hides the news, fearing that this could spell their end. Secretly, she wouldn’t mind stopping since their life has become harder over the years. But what else can she do? She also worries that her niece Dan Dan, their star, will leave them for a better future in the city. To keep her troupe “family” together, Zhao Li begins a search for a new theatre for them to both sing and live in. As she struggles with bureaucracy, the characters from the opera world that she uses to escape her troubles begin to seep into her real life…