This year's Looking China annual youth film project was launched on Monday in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, with eight young foreign directors invited to film the landscape and culture of the city.

The young filmmakers, who are from the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany and Jamaica, will visit eight different districts and counties in Chongqing, recording the mountain city from their perspectives.

Filming will be carried out in Fuling district, Beibei district, Wuxi county and five other districts and counties from April 12 to 17.

US director Dwante Spuriel will travel to Fuling district, focusing his work on pickled mustard, a snack popular across China. Canadian filmmaker Isaac Koenig-Workman will shoot a film about roasted fish, a specialty in Wuxi county, and he thinks it will be an "interesting cross-cultural experience."

The Looking China project, co-hosted by the Huilin Foundation and the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture since 2011, aims to present Chinese culture to the world through the eyes of young foreign filmmakers and promote communication between young generations in China and overseas.