Rave Reviews of LOST COURSE
Opening at Film at Lincoln Center, BAMPFA and Laemmle Theaters on March 5.
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dGenerate Films
- Feb 5, 2021
Virtual Theatrical Release of Jill Li’s Award-Winning Documentary LOST COURSE March 5, 2021
Virtual Release of Jill Li’s Award-Winning Documentary LOST COURSE March 5th at Film at Lincoln Center, Laemmle Theatres, and BAMPFA
dGenerate Films
- Feb 5, 2021
"Where Light Dawns" dGenerate Films Spotlighted in Lucid Dreaming Podcast
In conversation three of her third anthology, Pamela Cohn speaks with creative producer and distributor Karin Chien.
dGenerate Films
- Nov 19, 2020
"Does China Still Make Indie Films?" dGenerate Films Featured in Middle Earth Podcast
Long gone are the days when Chinese film directors could shoot their films and win awards abroad without complications back home.
dGenerate Films
- Aug 24, 2020
"Outcry and Whisper": A conversation between Jinyan Zeng, Trish McAdam, and Gina Marchetti
After viewing the interview footage, of these four factory women in a dormitory space, we immediately knew that’s the film we want.
dGenerate Films
- Jul 18, 2020
Re-emergence of Fanhall Films: An Interview with Zhu Rikun
ZHU Rikun is a name that should be familiar to anyone paying attention to Chinese independents.
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- Jul 5, 2020
Excavating Chinese History, One Harrowing Film at a Time (NY Times)
The work of Hu Jie is little known even in China. The release of “Spark” and “The Observer” should make him better known abroad.
dGenerate Films
- Jul 5, 2020
The Art of Survival in Modern Chinese Documentary
Many Chinese documentary-makers have spent the last decade exploring the human cost of destruction.
dGenerate Films
- Jun 16, 2020
Interview with Yi Cui on “Through the Looking Glass”
Yi Cui’s “Through the Looking Glass” is a powerful short that reflects the agency of indigenous filmmakers.
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- May 16, 2020
Defeating the Notion of a Coherent Path to Mastery: Wang Bing's "Dead Souls"
Certainly, it's impossible to watch a film of Wang’s and be left indifferent; each leaves a great impression.
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- May 9, 2020
Mothers and Daughters and the Chaos of Relationships: A Review of "Girls Always Happy"
What’s audacious about Yang’s movie is her clear-eyed acceptance of the chaos of relationships. There will be no easy resolution.
dGenerate Films
- Apr 29, 2020
OXHIDE's Narrative of Refraction and the Dreamy Daze of WINTER VACATION
Liu commits to a narrative refraction of an only child in a family of bag makers with a non-fictional rigor that eschews objective context.
dGenerate Films
- Apr 26, 2020
5 Documentaries That Captivate China's Creative Life
Regardless of location, tradition or political particularities, artists’ lives the world over carry as many similarities as not.
dGenerate Films
- Apr 26, 2020
Strange Magic: A Review of Rotterdam Winner 'The Widowed Witch'
The winner of the Rotterdam Film Festival’s prestigious Tiger Award in 2018 subtly turns the genre’s conventions on their head.
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- Apr 24, 2020
HIGH PLAINS DREAMER: OUR REVIEW OF ‘JINPA’ (4.5 out of 5 stars on intheseats.ca)
Pema Tseden’s entire body of work [creates] a hyper-real interconnected universe of stories and characters representing modern Tibet.
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- Apr 14, 2020
What Chinese Independent Cinema Can Tell Us About Confinement as Everyday Social Reality
The lack of freedom isn’t the point. If so, what more is there to say as an independent artist in China?
dGenerate Films
- Feb 1, 2020
Why I Had A Hard Time Watching American Factory
American and Chinese audiences face a similar challenge: in a landscape controlled by government-mandated censorship and corporate-driven co
dGenerate Films
- Dec 23, 2019
RADII: 25 Films From the 2010s That Will Help You Understand China
A terrific, madly varied list that includes propaganda blockbusters and wildly indie films like dGenerate Films title "Girls Always Happy."
dGenerate Films
- Dec 17, 2019
Chinese Documentaries at IDFA Narrow in on Character-Driven Narratives
Smog Town and Our Time Machine make clear the invisible line that Chinese documentaries, made in and for China, must navigate.
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- Jul 13, 2012
China Plans $5 Billion Theme Park in Tibet
From the Guardian: Old Dog (dir. Pema Tseden) Chinese officials have announced plans to build a £3bn (US$ 5 billion) Tibetan culture...