女篮五号 [Nü lan wu hao / Woman Basketball Player No. 5] (Jin Xie, 1957) Apr 7 March Madness Tense moments during the match. DPs: Shaofen Huang & Xilin Shen. Basketball: the final day of March Madness The first full-colour Chinese sports film and an example of how “state feminism” was promoted through popular media, often in opera but also in more humanist form. #Bales2025FilmChallenge #MarchMadness #JinXie #QiweiCao #ZhunHuang #ShaofenHuang #XilinShen #drama #propaganda #Maoism #feminism #sports #basketball #China #1950s