Crocodile in the Yangtze - The Story of Alibaba

Crocodile in the Yangtze - The Story of Alibaba (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
77 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
China ( India, Eastern Asia )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Porter Erisman

Written By:
Porter Erisman

Actors:
Porter Erisman

Synopsis:

When Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba holds its IPO in September 2014, the company is set to be valued at $200bn. In 2013, Alibaba was responsible for 60% of all packages delivered in China, and managed more internet sales than eBay and Amazon combined. Alibaba's visionary founder was former English teacher, 'Crazy' Jack Ma. So how did this apparently insignificant commercial tadpole leapfrog the US giants? And where will it end? After all, the company has so far only been operational in China. What happens when it goes global? Even domestically, hundreds of millions of Chinese people have never bought online. Or, not yet. Off the Fence presents a remarkable film from Porter Erisman. An American who worked for Alibaba for eight years, Erisman paints a strikingly candid portrait of Ma and his company, a witness to their triumphs and their disasters, en route to unprecedented global success.

Crocodile in the Yangtze: A Westerner Inside China's Alibaba.com' follows China's first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jack Ma, as he battles US giant eBay on the way to building China's first global Internet company, Alibaba Group. An independent memoir written, directed and produced by an American who worked in Ma's company for eight years, Crocodile in the Yangtze captures the emotional ups and downs of life in a Chinese Internet startup at a time when the Internet brought China face-to-face with the West.Crocodile in the Yangtze draws on 200 hours of archival footage filmed by over 35 sources between 1995 and 2009. The film presents a strikingly candid portrait of Ma and his company, told from the point of view of an American fly on a Chinese wall who witnessed the successes and the mistakes Alibaba encountered as it grew from a small apartment into a global company employing 16,000 staff.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 April, 2015.