海外資金正頻繁地以投資立案等方式介入獨立紀錄片導演的自主性創作，在數量上頗具規模，在接受程度上值得關註。立案合拍紀錄片普遍選擇移民為拍攝對象，並在形式和結構上強調故事性、戲劇衝突，頻繁體現了通過記錄和描繪移民的個體和家庭，濃縮中國急遽變化的時代和社會整體的記錄和表達意圖。

Oversea grants have been participating, if not controlling, the production and distribution of China’s independent documentary films. Among those co-produced documentary films that are based on pitching practices, the portrayal on the migrant people in China emerges as a salient subject matter. In terms of the formal and structural characteristics, the migrant depictions emphasize melodramatic conflicts of the family motif and the grow-up narrative. Through characterizing individuals and particular families, the sampled co-produced documentary films embody China’s transitional society