腾讯片榜TOP1！这部高分纪录片由宁诺校友参导

Please scroll down for the English version- UNNC alumna brings untold stories to the screen through award-winning documentary work.

最近，腾讯视频纪录片《了不起的妈妈第二季》热播，上线后迅速登上平台纪录片热榜。

镜头前，八位母亲袒露真实人生，讲述关于爱、成长与选择的故事；镜头后，作为该片导演之一，负责将这些故事搬上荧幕的，是宁波诺丁汉大学（简称“宁诺”）2022届国际传播专业毕业生姚璐。

宁诺毕业后，姚璐前往美国视觉艺术学院深造。如今，她作为纪录片创作者活跃于纪录片领域，多部作品入围纽约国际纪录片电影节、瑞士真实电影节、CNEX华人纪录片提案大会等多个影展。

姚璐在纽约纪录片电影节

从“成就孩子”到“看见自己”

作品将镜头对准母亲本身

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纪录片的播出引发了网友的热烈关注与讨论，不少观众评价其：缓解育儿焦虑，呈现女性超越母职的生命力。

不同于第一季围绕 “成就孩子”展开叙事，第二季将镜头更多地对准了母亲本身：曾深陷鸡娃焦虑的上海妈妈阿胖，拥有了热爱的事业成为百万育儿博主；作为“小镇做题家”获得成功的海淀妈妈李琦，当孩子陷入分数焦虑时，没有继续把压力推向下一代，而是给予理解与安慰；曾背负原生家庭创伤的李冬，通过自我重建，拥有了幸福的三口之家。

姚璐坦言，相较上一季，这些不同人生轨迹的母亲都不约而同地“看见自己”，制作团队便设定“女性成长”这个主题，聚焦母亲作为个体的真实状态。

姚璐在纽约上课和拍摄作业

在姚璐看来，这正是纪录片最迷人的地方：“随着社会变化，个体价值观也在不断变化。纪录片不仅要记录人物做了什么，更要走进她们当下的处境，洞悉她们此刻最真实的情绪和需求，反映出大环境的变迁。”

制作《了不起的妈妈2》之前，她的镜头还聚焦过逐梦乐坛的高校说唱爱好者、以触觉丈量世界的视障人士等等群体。

这份对人的敏锐观察，在她的毕业纪录片《Lend me by your eyes》（《借我你的眼睛》）也充分体现出来。凭借对人物细腻且有力量地呈现，该片荣获Paula Rhodes Prize（保拉·罗兹奖）——这是美国视觉艺术学院授予毕业创作与学术研究表现最突出的学生的最高荣誉，当年全系仅姚璐一人获此殊荣，该片还入围世界三大纪录片电影节之一的瑞士真实电影节。此外，她在校时创作的人物短片还曾入围纽约国际纪录片电影节。

姚璐在美国视觉艺术学院毕业展映

心怀火种

在跨文化视野中记录多种人生

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姚璐认为，宁诺点燃了她的热爱，并给予她思想启发与视野拓展。姚璐回忆，当时她担任宁诺中国文化课《爝火》栏目主编，将文字和镜头对准身边富有独特生命力的同学和校友：有人每日清晨在校园观鸟、有人执着于攀登一座座大山，有人着迷于创作悬疑小说等等。

课堂之外，姚璐还先后前往字节跳动和传统媒体企业实习来积累行业经验，直到一次在上海的纪录片公司实习，为她推开了纪录片的大门，也让她逐渐明确自己的方向——让“人的故事”跨越时间与空间，被更多人看见。

于是毕业时，她将目标锁定在一个极为小众却与热爱高度契合的方向——美国视觉艺术学院社会纪录片专业。面对这条并不寻常的道路，姚璐选择遵循内心：“当既定的评价体系摆在面前时，人容易产生路径依赖。但在宁诺开放探索的环境中，我会愿意为自己的热爱付诸行动。”

最终，姚璐如愿被录取，成为该专业全球招录的四人之一。来到纽约后，她依旧保持着这种对“人”的好奇，常从纽约时报上寻找感兴趣的人物线索，用镜头记录那些隐藏在城市褶皱中的人：变装皇后舞台下的另一面生活、时代广场的流浪者等等。在美国求学期间，老师就曾夸她：“你有一双不可思议的电影眼。”

面对纪录片行业的不确定性与现实挑战，姚璐显得自信和笃定：“无论是文字、短视频还是纪录片，都是表达载体之一。未来我也可能尝试更多形式，但我始终相信纪录片有一些珍贵价值是代替不了的，总要有人在这个领域坚持，我也愿意为了这样的价值坚持。”如今，她依然带着那份在宁诺点燃的火种，走向更多的人生现场。

UNNC alumna brings untold stories to the screen through award-winning documentary work

Tencent Video’s hit documentary series Marvelous Mom 2 has resonated deeply with audiences across China for its honest portrayal of motherhood, identity and personal growth. Behind the camera, one of the directors of the series is Yao Lu, a 2022 International Communications graduate from University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), who is now building a promising career as an independent documentary filmmaker.

After graduating from UNNC, Yao continued her studies at the School of Visual Arts in the United States, where her graduation documentary Lend Me Your Eyes won the prestigious Paula Rhodes Prize, the highest honour awarded by the School of Visual Arts to the graduating student who demonstrates the most outstanding achievement in creative work and academic research. That year, Yao Lu was the only student in the entire department to receive the distinction. Today, her work continues to focus on one enduring belief: that every ordinary life deserves to be truly seen.

Turning the camera towards the people behind the stories

In Marvelous Mom 2, Yao and her team shifted the focus away from parenting success and towards the inner worlds of mothers themselves. The series follows women navigating anxiety, self-discovery and personal transformation, capturing moments of vulnerability and resilience that have struck a chord with viewers.

For Yao, documentaries are not simply about recording events, but about understanding people in their most honest and emotional moments.

“A documentary should not only show what someone has done,” she said. “It should help us understand how they feel and what they are experiencing at that point in their lives, which will also reflect the changes of the world around them.”

This sensitivity to human stories has shaped many of her projects, from documenting university students chasing music dreams to portraying visually impaired individuals experiencing the world through touch. Her films are marked by warmth, empathy and a quiet attentiveness to lives that are often overlooked.

A passion first ignited at UNNC

Yao credits UNNC with nurturing both her creativity and her curiosity about people. During her studies, she served as editor-in-chief of Torchlight, a Chinese culture column project that highlighted the lives of ordinary people on campus — students passionate about birdwatching, mountain climbing, or novel writing.

She says the university’s international environment and emphasis on independent thinking encouraged her to observe the world with greater openness and critical insight.

After internships at ByteDance and other media organisations, Yao discovered documentary filmmaking during an internship in Shanghai. It was there she realised that the stories she most wanted to tell were those rooted in real human experiences.

Rather than following a conventional career path, she applied for the highly competitive Social Documentary programme at the School of Visual Arts, where only four students worldwide were admitted that year — Yao among them.

Carrying forward stories that matter

Now based between different creative projects and documentary productions, Yao continues to seek out stories hidden beneath the surface of everyday life — from performers and migrants to people living on the margins of large cities.

Even in an industry filled with uncertainty, she remains deeply committed to documentary storytelling.

“Documentaries hold a kind of irreplaceable value,” she said. “Someone has to continue telling these stories, and I hope to keep doing that.”

From the classrooms of UNNC to international documentary film festivals and major streaming platforms, Yao’s journey reflects the power of storytelling rooted in empathy, curiosity and human connection — and a belief that every life, no matter how ordinary it may seem, is worthy of being seen.

图文来源：Jenny Zhuang, Tony Bao

电子编辑：Suri An

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