"Does China Still Make Indie Films?" dGenerate Films Featured in Middle Earth Podcast
Long gone are the days when Chinese film directors could shoot their films and win awards abroad without complications back home.
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- 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.
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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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- Aug 28, 2014
Chinese Cinema Author Expresses Changing Opinion of Indie Films
China on Film: A Century of Exploration, Confrontation and Controversy, by Paul Pickowicz Recently China Digital Times interviewed Paul...
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- Aug 15, 2014
New Profile of Fearless Filmmaker Hu Jie
Hu Jie (photo: Tania Branigan for The Observer) At the Guardian, Tania Branigan interviews Hu Jie, director of many startling...
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- Aug 8, 2014
“What’s For Dinner?” Tours China, Bringing Awareness of Food Industry
Zhou shares her experience showing the film: OHH: Why did you want to bring What’s For Dinner? to China? WZ: The issues discussed...
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- Aug 7, 2014
Chinese Filmmaker Speaks Out on the Environmental Impact of Eating Meat
Jian Yi, director of “What’s for Dinner?” (Image: BrighterGreenNY) China Dialogue recently published an interview with filmmaker Jian Yi,...
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- Apr 15, 2014
Interview with filmmaker Vivian Qu in Film Comment
Trap Street (2013, Vivian Qu) In Film Comment magazine, Xin Zhou interviews Vivian Qu, a longtime producer of Chinese independent films...
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- Feb 18, 2014
Video Profile of “Trash-Talking” Filmmaker Wang Jiuliang
From ChinaFile, a video profile of independent director Wang Jiuliang, whose award-winning documentary Beijing Besieged by Waste is part...
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- Feb 5, 2014
Interview with Zhao Dayong on His New Film Premiering in Berlinale
Shadow Days (dir. Zhao Dayong) Zhao Dayong, director of acclaimed documentaries Ghost Town and Street Life, is interviewed by the South...
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- Oct 30, 2012
dGenerate Films profiled in Agenda Beijing Magazine
In the current issue of Agenda Beijing Magazine, Laura Petryshen interviews dGenerate Films’ VP of Programming and Education Kevin B. Lee...
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- Oct 2, 2012
CinemaTalk: Interview with Zhu Rikun, Curator of Jacob Burns “Hidden China” Series, on A
This October the Jacob Burns Film Center presents “Hidden China,” a monthlong series of independent documentaries produced in China,...
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- Aug 28, 2012
Interview with Head of Beijing Independent Film Festival Li Xianting
By Kevin B. Lee Originally published on Indiewire Last Saturday China’s independent film community faced their latest setback when the...
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- Aug 24, 2012
CinemaTalk: 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...
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- Apr 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....
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- Mar 14, 2012
<i>Beijing Besieged by Waste</i> Screening at AAS Annual Meeting: Interview with Director Wang Jiuli
By Christen Cornell Note: Beijing Besieged by Waste will screen at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Film Expo, Friday March 16...
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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 3, 2012
CinemaTalk: 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,...