over 800,000,000 text messages were sent during the third season of "super girl", and fan clubs began to appear throughout the country. after the large response to the ability to vote, the chinese government banned the show from continuing to a fourth season. the show was the feature of a 2007 documentary titled "super, girls!", produced and directed by independent chinese filmmaker jian yi on the 2006 super voice girls contest, released at the cambridge film festival. an artisimple studio production, "super, girls!" is the only independent feature-length documentary ever made about the "super girls."