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Aug 31, 2012

Documentary Recommendations by China Film Experts, including dGenerate President Karin Chien

On the website ChinaFile, six esteemed experts of Chinese cinema give their personal recommendations of China’s best independent documentaries. Nine films from the dGenerate catalog are mentioned; Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul earned three mentions, followed by Meishi Street and Disorder with two.

The lists of each Chinese film expert can be found after the break. Their accompanying comments can be found on ChinaFile. ChinaFile is a website project operated by the Asia Society Center on US-China Relations.

Chris Berry, professor of Film and Television Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London:

Crime and Punishment, dir. Zhao Liang
 
Mask Changing: A Letter To Antonioni, dir. Pan Jun
 
Meishi Street, dir. Ou Ning
 
Though I Am Gone, dir. Hu Jie
 
West of the Tracks, dir. Wang Bing

Karin Chien, founder and president, dGenerate Films::

Disorder, dir. Huang Weikai
 
Ghost Town, dir. Zhao Dayong
 
Crime and Punishment, dir. Zhao Liang
 
Meishi Street, dir. Ou Ning
 

Jia Zhangke, filmmaker:

West of the Tracks, dir. Wang Bing
 
Before the Flood, dirs. Li Yifan and Yan Yu
 
Petition, dir. Zhao Liang

La Frances Hui, curator, Asia Society:

Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers, dir. Wu Wenguang

Disorder, dir. Huang Weikai

Petition, dir. Zhao Liang

Railroad of Hope, dir. Ning Ying

Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul, dir. Hu Jie

Zhang Xianmin, film producer, critic, and organizer of the China Independent Film Festival:

Using, dir. Zhou Hao

Bing Ai, dir. Feng Yan

Crime and Punishment, dir. Zhao Liang
 

Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul, dir. Hu Jie

New Castle, dir. Guo Hengqi

Zhang Yingjin, Professor of Chinese Literature at University of California, San Diego:

Last Train Home, dir. Fan Lixin

Fuck Cinema, dir. Wu Wenguang

Petition, dir. Zhao Liang

Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul, dir. Hu Jie

West of the Tracks, dir. Wang Bing