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Chinese Indie Feature Wins Top Prize at Locarno
Li Hongqi, winner of the Golden Leopard for Winter Vacation (Photo: Locarno Film Festival) by Isabella Tianzi Cai 34-year-old Chinese...
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Aug 18, 2010


A Tour of China’s Only Independent Film School
Li Xianting Film School's Ying Liang (left) and Zhu Rikun (right) with owner and daughter of their favorite restaurant in Songzhuang...
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Aug 9, 2010


New York Times profile of <i>Spring Fever</i> director Lou Ye
by Isabella Tianzi Cai Spring Fever (dir. Lou Ye) In The New York Times, critic Dennis Lim profiled Chinese director Lou Ye and his film...
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Aug 5, 2010


“We Will Always Be Loyal to Cinema:” Jia Zhangke Assesses the Sixth Generation
by Isabella Tianzi Cai Wang Xiaoshuai introduces Jia Zhangke as Lou Ye looks on at the BC MOMA in Beijing (photo: Dan Edwards) On July...
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Aug 3, 2010


A New Voice on Chinese Film: Dan Edwards’ Screening China
Directors Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai and Lou Ye at the Beijing premiere of Wang's Chongqing Blues (photo courtesy of Screening China)...
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Aug 2, 2010


Cinematic Earthquakes: Thoughts on <i>Aftershock</i> and <i>1428</i>
By Isabella Tianzi Cai and Kevin B. Lee Aftershock (dir. Feng Xiaogang) The 1976 Tangshan Earthquake was one of the worst natural...
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Jul 22, 2010


Best of the Decade, Taiwanese Style
By Isabella Tianzi Cai Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang) The Taiwanese film magazine Fun Screen called on 68 filmmakers, film scholars, film...
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Jul 8, 2010


African Directors Film in China with Li Xianting Film School and Rotterdam Festival
Portrait of Mozambique President Armando Guebuza in a Chinese restaurant (Photo: Ella Raidel, IFF Rotterdam) The International Film...
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Jul 6, 2010
Chinese Documentaries Available for Free Viewing
In May and June 2010, IDFA is traveling though China, where the festival is presenting several documentary programs in Beijing and...
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Jun 25, 2010


Superblogger Han Han on Why “China Can’t Be a Cultural Superpower”
By Isabella Tianzi Cai Han Han (photo: China Digital Times) Ranked as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in a 2010 survey by...
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Jun 23, 2010


Video: Jian Yi Speaks to Soros Foundation / Open Society Institute
Jian Yi (Photo by Christopher Capozziello for the Open Society Institute) Next week, we’ll post the second of our video interviews...
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Jun 15, 2010


Indie Filmmakers Featured in Time Out Shanghai
The feature is not available online, but we’ve secured permission to make it available as a downloadable .pdf on the dGenerate website....
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Jun 7, 2010


Controversial Earthquake Documentary Now on YouTube
Buried (dir. Wang Libo) Wang Libo’s film Buried was one of the prizewinners of the 2009 Beijing Documentary Film Festival. This probing...
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Jun 4, 2010
Video from The New Yorker: Ai Weiwei’s Life as Art
New Yorker Magazine’s China correspondent Evan Osnos has a feature article in the newest issue on Ai Weiwei, exploring the phenomenon and...
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May 26, 2010


Banned Chinese Independent Documentaries Shine Overseas
Director Ai Xiaoming The Epoch Times has an informative article by Liang Zhen on Chinese independent documentaries, published on the...
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May 21, 2010


Vancouver New Asia Film Festival to screen Raised From Dust and Digital Underground in the PRC
Raised From Dust (dir. Gan Xiao'er) Next weekend, the 3rd annual Vancouver New Asia Film Festival will screen Gan Xiao’er’s Raised From...
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May 20, 2010


What Will Happen to Caochangdi?
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Chaochangdi art district, Beijing At RedBox Review, Samantha Culp reports a disturbing development...
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May 17, 2010


Asia Society Film Recap: <i>Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters</i>
Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters (dir. Ban Zhongyi) Continuing our recap of the Asia Society series “China’s Past, Present and Future on Film,”...
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May 4, 2010


“Alternative Realities:” China’s Digital Documentary Filmmakers
1428 (dir. Du Haibin) In the newest issue of RealTime Arts Magazine, there is a rousing article by Dan Edwards on the significance of...
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Apr 26, 2010


For a Limited Time: Free Streaming of Chinese documentary <i>Survival Song</i>
Survival Song (dir. Yu Guangyi) Doc Alliance, a partnership between five European film festivals, is offering free streaming of five...
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Apr 22, 2010
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