By Dan Edwards IFChina Studio founder and filmmaker Jian Yi, outside the studio on the campus of Jinggangshan University Reprinted by...

Yang Jin's Er Dong, featured in both QCC and ISSAS programs By Ariella Tai Earlier this year, two new screening groups devoted to...

By Michael Chenkin Guo-Juin Hong is Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University. Hong has...

Wang Yang (photo credit: Grace Wang) By Ariella Tai In similar form to her fascinating report on Chinese Documentaries in her Chicago Sun...

Oxhide II (dir. Liu Jiayin) By Ariella Tai On the University of Sydney’s blog Artspace, Christen Cornell interviews Liu Jiayin on her...

By Shelly Kraicer I previously wrote here about the cancellation of the 2011 Beijing Independent Documentary Film Festival (DOChina) at...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai Advisors Cara Mertes and Lixin Fan listen to a filmmaker in a small group at CNEX/DFP workshops. (Photo: Meredith...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai Directors Zhao Liang and Fan Lixin in Zhao Liang's Beijing studio (photo: Grace Wang) An article of great interest...

By Kevin B. Lee In conjunction with the screening series New Tales of Chinese Cinema screening this weekend at the Museum of the Moving...

Jonathan Landreth reports for the Hollywood Reporter: BEIJING – Organizers of a long-standing Chinese independent documentary film...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai One of the hottest web films in China right now is the 43-minute feature Old Boys, directed by 31-year-old TV...

Together (dir. Zhao Liang) Chinese Radio International broadcast a segment profiling Zhao Liang’s new documentary Together. The film will...

By Zhang Xianmin Zhang Xianmin Following his recent critique on the state of Chinese cinema “Daytime Booze Nighttime Party,” Chinese film...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai Say What? "Confucius" in Three-Way Tie for Worst Chinese Film of 2010 The winners of the 2nd Golden Broom Awards...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai Jia Zhangke The 47th Taipei Golden Horse Festival conducted a survey to find out the 100 greatest Chinese-language...

Jia Zhangke The new issue of Cinema Scope magazine has a heavy dose of Chinese cinema coverage. In the magazine, Jia Zhangke, whose most...

By Isabella Tianzi Cai The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record (authors Chris Berry, Lu Xinyu, Lisa Rofel) A new...

Winter Vacation (dir. Li Hongqi) Last year, dGenerate Films conducted the Best Chinese Films of the Decade poll, with the participation...

By Zhang Xianmin Translated by Isabella Tianzi Cai Zhang Xianmin In this essay, Zhang Xianmin, Professor of Beijing Film Academy, film...

By Kevin B. Lee Let it be known that 2010 was an exceptional year for Chinese independent cinema. Most media attention on Chinese cinema...