A NEW OLD PLAY: Director Qiu Jiongjiong Interviewed by Producer Ding Ningyuan
English translation by John Pao-chuan Wang Ding Ningyuan: This film is based on your grandfather's life experience, what motivated you to...
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Dec 13, 2021
Latest News and Reviews of ALL ABOUT MY SISTERS by Wang Qiong
ALL ABOUT MY SISTERS, the debut feature documentary film by Wang Qiong, is officially eligible for Best Documentary consideration at the...
dGenerate Films
Mar 1, 2021
Rave Reviews of LOST COURSE
Opening at Film at Lincoln Center, BAMPFA and Laemmle Theaters on March 5.
dGenerate Films
Feb 5, 2021
Virtual Theatrical Release of Jill Li’s Award-Winning Documentary LOST COURSE March 5, 2021
Virtual Release of Jill Li’s Award-Winning Documentary LOST COURSE March 5th at Film at Lincoln Center, Laemmle Theatres, and BAMPFA
dGenerate Films
Aug 24, 2020
"Outcry and Whisper": A conversation between Jinyan Zeng, Trish McAdam, and Gina Marchetti
After viewing the interview footage, of these four factory women in a dormitory space, we immediately knew that’s the film we want.
dGenerate Films
Jul 18, 2020
Re-emergence of Fanhall Films: An Interview with Zhu Rikun
ZHU Rikun is a name that should be familiar to anyone paying attention to Chinese independents.
dGenerate Films
Jul 5, 2020
Excavating Chinese History, One Harrowing Film at a Time (NY Times)
The work of Hu Jie is little known even in China. The release of “Spark” and “The Observer” should make him better known abroad.
dGenerate Films
Jul 5, 2020
The Art of Survival in Modern Chinese Documentary
Many Chinese documentary-makers have spent the last decade exploring the human cost of destruction.
dGenerate Films
Jun 16, 2020
Interview with Yi Cui on “Through the Looking Glass”
Yi Cui’s “Through the Looking Glass” is a powerful short that reflects the agency of indigenous filmmakers.
dGenerate Films
May 16, 2020
Defeating the Notion of a Coherent Path to Mastery: Wang Bing's "Dead Souls"
Certainly, it's impossible to watch a film of Wang’s and be left indifferent; each leaves a great impression.
dGenerate Films
May 9, 2020
Mothers and Daughters and the Chaos of Relationships: A Review of "Girls Always Happy"
What’s audacious about Yang’s movie is her clear-eyed acceptance of the chaos of relationships. There will be no easy resolution.
dGenerate Films
Apr 29, 2020
OXHIDE's Narrative of Refraction and the Dreamy Daze of WINTER VACATION
Liu commits to a narrative refraction of an only child in a family of bag makers with a non-fictional rigor that eschews objective context.
dGenerate Films
Apr 26, 2020
5 Documentaries That Captivate China's Creative Life
Regardless of location, tradition or political particularities, artists’ lives the world over carry as many similarities as not.
dGenerate Films
Apr 26, 2020
Strange Magic: A Review of Rotterdam Winner 'The Widowed Witch'
The winner of the Rotterdam Film Festival’s prestigious Tiger Award in 2018 subtly turns the genre’s conventions on their head.
dgeneratefilms
Apr 24, 2020
HIGH PLAINS DREAMER: OUR REVIEW OF ‘JINPA’ (4.5 out of 5 stars on intheseats.ca)
Pema Tseden’s entire body of work [creates] a hyper-real interconnected universe of stories and characters representing modern Tibet.
dGenerate Films
Feb 1, 2020
Why I Had A Hard Time Watching American Factory
American and Chinese audiences face a similar challenge: in a landscape controlled by government-mandated censorship and corporate-driven co
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Mar 6, 2017
Huang Ji (Egg and Stone) debuts latest feature at Berlinale
Huang Ji’s 2012 debut feature, Egg and Stone, shows the world of rural Chinese life through a perspective seldom seen, that of a young...
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Dec 2, 2016
Interview with Yang Mingming, director of Female Directors
By Josh Feola Yang Mingming, a self-described “hutong kid” born in 1988 and raised in central Beijing, fell into filmmaking in college....
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Dec 1, 2016
Review: Yang Mingming’s Female Directors
By Josh Feola Courtesy of Icarus Films This review contains spoilers. Yang Mingming’s 2012 debut Female Directors, a documentary-style...
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Sep 28, 2016
Review of Pema Tseden’s Tharlo
Courtesy of Icarus Films by Maya Rudolph This review contains spoilers. Tharlo, Pema Tsenden’s noir-inflected romance, is a story of...
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