@IndieFilmmakers, A Micro-Blog Roundup
To recognize commenting being restored on Chinese microblogging sites, we’ve once again rounded up some of our filmmaker’s...
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- Apr 10, 2012
Extreme Documentary: Ai Weiwei, Li Ning, and Voyeurism in Chinese Cinema
By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph A long time practitioner and advocate of self-documentation, Ai Weiwei made online waves last week when he...
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- Apr 4, 2012
“Old Dog” to Join Films from China and Hong Kong at San Francisco International Film Fes
Pema Tseden‘s Old Dog, which made its North American premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival and US premiere at the...
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- Apr 3, 2012
The Apple Factory and the Real China
"Struggle" (dir. Shu Haolun) Writer Mike Daisey was recently repudiated for fabricating numerous elements of his story “Mr. Daisey and...
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- Apr 2, 2012
Huang Weikai’s Disorder to Screen at Maysles Cinema
Attention, New Yorkers! Huang Weikai‘s “grimping, shocking, occasionally shocking” 2009 documentary Disorder will screen on April 3rd at...
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- Mar 28, 2012
Pema Tseden Awarded Prize by Hong Kong’s HAF Film Festival
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...
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- Mar 26, 2012
Symposium at Harvard Seeks to Reimagine Tiananmen Movement
Youth in Revolt: Shu Haolun's "No. 89 Shimin Road" A student symposium at Harvard entitled “Tiananmen In History And Memory” will be held...
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- Mar 14, 2012
China’s Chief Critic in the Land of Daytime Booze and Red Envelopes
Raymond Zhou (courtesy LA Times) Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore recently profiled Chinese film reviewer...
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- Feb 29, 2012
CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Filmmaker Ji Dan
By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph Ji Dan Originally from Heilongjiang, Ji Dan is a documentary filmmaker who has worked extensively in both China...
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- Feb 27, 2012
Inside Politics: Party Power Struggles and Desperate Measures
"The Transition Period" (dir. Zhou Hao) In an article for The Daily Beast, Rosemary Righter reports on the mysterious case of Wang Lijun,...
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- Feb 24, 2012
“Beijing Besieged By Garbage” Photo Essay by Wang Jiuliang
photo: Wang Jiuliang A photo essay by Beijing Besieged By Waste director Wang Jiuliang appeared recently in Cross-Currents: East Asian...
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- Feb 17, 2012
Trends & Growth for China’s 2011 Box Office
This cool infographic comes courtesy of the Gravity Group and Shanghiist and shows some facts and figures on China’s 2011 box office...
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- Feb 16, 2012
A Long Line of Regulations: SARFT Now Turns Attention to Internet Video Censorship
Amid the flurry of SARFT’s most recent wave of slashing and burning Chinese film and TV programming, foreign film studios co-opting the...
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- Feb 15, 2012
Tenacity of Indie Documentary-Makers Profiled in USA Today
"Karamay" (dir. Xu Xin) An article entitled Reel China: Hard-pressed documentary makers keep rolling appeared recently in USA Today,...
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- Feb 14, 2012
Novels into Film: Chinese Cinema’s Literary Legacy
"Winter Vacation" (dir. Li Hongqi) A recent profile of Chinese novelist Yan Geling, author of the novel “The Thirteen Women of Nanjing,”...
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- Feb 8, 2012
China Moving Towards A Ratings System?
As long as there has been a Chinese film industry, a ratings system of any kind has eluded audience members whose competence to...
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- Feb 7, 2012
“When The Bough Breaks” to Screen at Documentary Fortnight
"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...
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- Feb 2, 2012
Review: <i>Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry </i>
By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" (dir. Alison Klayman) The documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, which was directed by...
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- Jan 31, 2012
Online Platforms Open Up Alternative Film Content to Chinese Audiences
In a recent article for The Guardian, Nicola Davidson reports on a recent deal that will allow users of Chinese video browser youku to...
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- Jan 24, 2012
Reviews of New Films by Zhou Hao, director of “Using” and “The Transition Period&#
By Kevin B. Lee Police on duty at Guangzhou Railway Station in early 2012. Image: eChinacities. On his blog Screening China, Dan Edwards...
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