dgeneratefilmsMar 6, 2017Huang Ji (Egg and Stone) debuts latest feature at BerlinaleHuang Ji’s 2012 debut feature, Egg and Stone, shows the world of rural Chinese life through a perspective seldom seen, that of a young girl “left behind” in ...
dgeneratefilmsDec 2, 2016Interview with Yang Mingming, director of Female DirectorsBy Josh Feola Yang Mingming, a self-described “hutong kid” born in 1988 and raised in central Beijing, fell into filmmaking in college. She majored in film a...
dgeneratefilmsAug 28, 2014Chinese Cinema Author Expresses Changing Opinion of Indie FilmsChina on Film: A Century of Exploration, Confrontation and Controversy, by Paul Pickowicz Recently China Digital Times interviewed Paul Pickowicz, Distinguis...
dgeneratefilmsAug 15, 2014New Profile of Fearless Filmmaker Hu JieHu Jie (photo: Tania Branigan for The Observer) At the Guardian, Tania Branigan interviews Hu Jie, director of many startling documentaries that reveal the u...
dgeneratefilmsAug 8, 2014“What’s For Dinner?” Tours China, Bringing Awareness of Food IndustryZhou shares her experience showing the film: OHH: Why did you want to bring What’s For Dinner? to China? WZ: The issues discussed in What’s For Dinner? are v...
dgeneratefilmsAug 7, 2014Chinese Filmmaker Speaks Out on the Environmental Impact of Eating MeatJian Yi, director of “What’s for Dinner?” (Image: BrighterGreenNY) China Dialogue recently published an interview with filmmaker Jian Yi, director of What’s ...
dgeneratefilmsApr 15, 2014Interview with filmmaker Vivian Qu in Film CommentTrap Street (2013, Vivian Qu) In Film Comment magazine, Xin Zhou interviews Vivian Qu, a longtime producer of Chinese independent films who recently debuted ...
dgeneratefilmsFeb 18, 2014Video Profile of “Trash-Talking” Filmmaker Wang JiuliangFrom ChinaFile, a video profile of independent director Wang Jiuliang, whose award-winning documentary Beijing Besieged by Waste is part of the dGenerate Fil...
dgeneratefilmsFeb 5, 2014Interview with Zhao Dayong on His New Film Premiering in BerlinaleShadow Days (dir. Zhao Dayong) Zhao Dayong, director of acclaimed documentaries Ghost Town and Street Life, is interviewed by the South China Morning Post in...
dgeneratefilmsOct 30, 2012dGenerate Films profiled in Agenda Beijing MagazineIn the current issue of Agenda Beijing Magazine, Laura Petryshen interviews dGenerate Films’ VP of Programming and Education Kevin B. Lee on the company’s wo...
dgeneratefilmsOct 2, 2012CinemaTalk: Interview with Zhu Rikun, Curator of Jacob Burns “Hidden China” Series, on AThis October the Jacob Burns Film Center presents “Hidden China,” a monthlong series of independent documentaries produced in China, selected Zhu Rikun, prod...
dgeneratefilmsAug 28, 2012Interview with Head of Beijing Independent Film Festival Li XiantingBy Kevin B. Lee Originally published on Indiewire Last Saturday China’s independent film community faced their latest setback when the Beijing Independent Fi...
dgeneratefilmsAug 24, 2012CinemaTalk: Conversation with Huang Ji, director of <i>Egg and Stone</i>By Kevin B. Lee Last weekend the 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival opened with the domestic premiere of Egg and Stone, which won a Tiger Award for Best F...
dgeneratefilmsApr 20, 2012“Chinese Independent Filmmaking: Freedom is a State of Mind” Kevin Lee Interviewed in 3 dGenerate’s own Kevin Lee was interviewed by Michèle Vicat of 3 dots water, a virtual publication of Chinese and global art. Discussing the origins a...
dgeneratefilmsMar 14, 2012<i>Beijing Besieged by Waste</i> Screening at AAS Annual Meeting: Interview with Director Wang JiuliBy Christen Cornell Note: Beijing Besieged by Waste will screen at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Film Expo, Friday March 16 2012 in the Sheraton Ce...
dgeneratefilmsFeb 29, 2012CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Filmmaker Ji DanBy Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph Ji Dan Originally from Heilongjiang, Ji Dan is a documentary filmmaker who has worked extensively in both China and Japan. Her past...
dgeneratefilmsFeb 3, 2012CinemaTalk: Interview with Alison Klayman, director of “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph Alison Klayman (alisonklayman.com) Alison Klayman is a journalist who, while living in China from 2006-2010, produced radio and tel...
dgeneratefilmsJan 2, 2012Ai Weiwei: “Documentary is Just One Of My Tools”Discussing his approach to documentary filmmaking, China’s most notorious dissident and artist Ai Weiwei was interviewed by filmmaker and scholar JP Sniadeck...
dgeneratefilmsDec 16, 2011CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Filmmaker Wu Wenguang on the Memory ProjectBy Maya E. Rudolph After his screening series premiering many works from the Getting the Past Out Loud: Memory Projects at New York University, I spoke with ...
dgeneratefilmsDec 8, 2011CinemaTalk: Interview with Julian Ward and Song Hwee Lim, Editors of The Chinese Cinema BookBy Maya E. Rudolph Song Hwee Lim and Julian Ward are editors of the recently published The Chinese Cinema Book (BFI and Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Song Hwee ...
