To recognize commenting being restored on Chinese microblogging sites, we’ve once again rounded up some of our filmmaker’s...

By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph A long time practitioner and advocate of self-documentation, Ai Weiwei made online waves last week when he...

Pema Tseden‘s Old Dog, which made its North American premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival and US premiere at the...

"Struggle" (dir. Shu Haolun) Writer Mike Daisey was recently repudiated for fabricating numerous elements of his story “Mr. Daisey and...

Attention, New Yorkers! Huang Weikai‘s “grimping, shocking, occasionally shocking” 2009 documentary Disorder will screen on April 3rd at...

Pema Tseden Pema Tseden, director of Old Dog and The Search, and pioneer of Tibet New Wave, has been awarded a development prize by the...

Youth in Revolt: Shu Haolun's "No. 89 Shimin Road" A student symposium at Harvard entitled “Tiananmen In History And Memory” will be held...

Raymond Zhou (courtesy LA Times) Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore recently profiled Chinese film reviewer...

By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph Ji Dan Originally from Heilongjiang, Ji Dan is a documentary filmmaker who has worked extensively in both China...

"The Transition Period" (dir. Zhou Hao) In an article for The Daily Beast, Rosemary Righter reports on the mysterious case of Wang Lijun,...

photo: Wang Jiuliang A photo essay by Beijing Besieged By Waste director Wang Jiuliang appeared recently in Cross-Currents: East Asian...

This cool infographic comes courtesy of the Gravity Group and Shanghiist and shows some facts and figures on China’s 2011 box office...

Amid the flurry of SARFT’s most recent wave of slashing and burning Chinese film and TV programming, foreign film studios co-opting the...

"Karamay" (dir. Xu Xin) An article entitled Reel China: Hard-pressed documentary makers keep rolling appeared recently in USA Today,...

"Winter Vacation" (dir. Li Hongqi) A recent profile of Chinese novelist Yan Geling, author of the novel “The Thirteen Women of Nanjing,”...

As long as there has been a Chinese film industry, a ratings system of any kind has eluded audience members whose competence to...

"When The Bough Breaks" (dir. Ji Dan) Ji Dan‘s When the Bough Breaks will screen on Monday, February 20 and Wednesday, February 22nd as...

By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" (dir. Alison Klayman) The documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, which was directed by...

In a recent article for The Guardian, Nicola Davidson reports on a recent deal that will allow users of Chinese video browser youku to...

By Kevin B. Lee Police on duty at Guangzhou Railway Station in early 2012. Image: eChinacities. On his blog Screening China, Dan Edwards...