Xue Xiaogang (L) prepares to screen a movie to audience in Gaojiayan Village, Sanjiao Township of Liulin County, north China s Shanxi Province, Aug. 10, 2021. In 1975, Sanjiao Township established a movie projection team. Liu Bufei and Liu Dengzhao, both cinephiles since childhood, joined the team and became rural projectionists. In 2007, the team became a troika as second-generation projectionist Xue Xiaogang joined in, who had been seeing open-air movies in the village while growing up. Over the years, the projection team, for innumerable times has driven along the country roads and traversed mountainous region, set up the curtain and stereo, debugged the generator and the projector, and prepared to screen movies to audience in remote villages. Open-air cinema audience gradually declined as television and the internet became mainstream, yet the projection team didn t give up even amid the low tide. "Many villagers are used to waiting at the entrance of the village for the movies