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Andi Akpe is cre­at­ing video doc­u­men­tary footage of Shanghai and China all fall. Check out the third install­ment below, as Andi and fel­low NYU Shanghai stu­dents travel to Gansu Province in Western China. They sing Justin Bieber tunes with Tibetan girls, admire yak but­ter sculp­ture at Labrang Monastery, ride camels, climb mas­sive sand dunes at the edge of the Gobi Desert, and more.  Below, Andi intro­duces us to his project and shares his third Double A Productions Shanghai video. >>>

Capturing the peo­ple and places that make ​​my time here in Shanghai and my trav­els through­out China mem­o­rable in an episodic doc­u­men­tary film series is the goal of A Visual Taste of Shanghai. Shot with a Nikon D3100 DSLR cam­era, this episode takes place in Gansu, a far-western province where where Tibetan, Mongolian and Chinese cul­tures blend against dra­matic nat­ural desert, grass­land and moun­tain land­scapes. Like all episodes of "A Visual Taste of Shanghai," this spe­cial travel episode speaks toward the one main phi­los­o­phy I hold to when­ever I step behind my camera: All peo­ple have sto­ries wait­ing to be told, be it my story, your story, our story…

In the short four-month span of time I have here in China, my mis­sion is to col­lect these sto­ries and to share them with you. Whether its through offer­ing a glimpse into a China you never knew, or real­iz­ing a sim­i­lar­ity between cul­tures that has always been there, this series is for all to enjoy, share, and learn from.

With that, enjoy!

Video links:

Youku: A Visual Taste of Shanghai: Gansu

YouTube: A Visual Taste of Shanghai: Gansu

Double A Productions is a small/independent film com­pany started by Andi Akpe, a cur­rent Junior at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business dual-majoring in Finance and International Business.