Smog Town and Our Time Machine make clear the invisible line that Chinese documentaries, made in and for China, must navigate.

“The Future of Independent Documentary in China” was the focus of a recent panel at the University of Southern California

Courtesy of Icarus Films by Maya Rudolph  This review contains spoilers. Tharlo, Pema Tsenden’s noir-inflected romance, is a story of...

The Chinese Mayor This year’s Sundance Film Festival yielded a triumphant moment for Chinese documentary film, when The Chinese Mayor,...

Cotton (dir. Zhou Hao) For over a decade, Zhou Hao has been making independent documentaries probing many of China’s most urgent social...

For the Associated Press, Louise Watt reports on the impact that environmental filmmakers are having in China. Among those profiled in...

Earlier this month, dGenerate Films’ Founder and President Karin Chien attended the 11th China Independent Film Festival (CIFF) in...

Li Xianting, film critic and organizer of the Beijing Independent Film Festival (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Following the recent shutdown of...

Jonathan Miller, President of Icarus Films, distributor of the dGenerate Films collection, Karin Chien, dGenerate Films President and...

Fan Popo (photo: Advocate) Congratuations to Fan Popo, a young filmmaker, social activist and director of the Beijing Queer Film...

Trap Street (2013, Vivian Qu) In Film Comment magazine, Xin Zhou interviews Vivian Qu, a longtime producer of Chinese independent films...

“Oxhide II” (dir. Liu Jiayin) The sister publications Time Out Beijing and Time Out Shanghai recently conducted an international poll of...

Shadow Days (dir. Zhao Dayong) Zhao Dayong, director of acclaimed documentaries Ghost Town and Street Life, is interviewed by the South...

Hu Jie stands beside his painting of Chinese dissident Lin Zhao. (photo: Matthew Bell) For the radio program The World produced by Public...

Microfilm director Wei Jiangang From the Hollywood Reporter: Chinese authorities tightened their grip on the country’s nascent Internet...

In the New Statesman, Chinese film producer, critic and programmer Zhu Rikun reflects on his turbulent experiences working with Chinese...

Dan Edwards reports in Crikey on the recent challenges faced by Chinese filmmakers in dealing with censorship both at home and abroad: As...

The New York Times reports on the troubles that met the 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival last month. Reporter Jonathan Landreth...

On the website ChinaFile, six esteemed experts of Chinese cinema give their personal recommendations of China’s best independent...

By Kevin B. Lee Last weekend the 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival opened with the domestic premiere of Egg and Stone, which won a...