ZHU Rikun is a name that should be familiar to anyone paying attention to Chinese independents.

The work of Hu Jie is little known even in China. The release of “Spark” and “The Observer” should make him better known abroad.

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 gi...

By Josh Feola Yang Mingming, a self-described “hutong kid” born in 1988 and raised in central Beijing, fell into filmmaking in college. S...

China on Film: A Century of Exploration, Confrontation and Controversy, by Paul Pickowicz Recently China Digital Times interviewed Paul P...

Hu Jie (photo: Tania Branigan for The Observer) At the Guardian, Tania Branigan interviews Hu Jie, director of many startling documentari...

Zhou 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...

Jian Yi, director of “What’s for Dinner?” (Image: BrighterGreenNY) China Dialogue recently published an interview with filmmaker Jian Yi,...

Trap Street (2013, Vivian Qu) In Film Comment magazine, Xin Zhou interviews Vivian Qu, a longtime producer of Chinese independent films w...

Shadow Days (dir. Zhao Dayong) Zhao Dayong, director of acclaimed documentaries Ghost Town and Street Life, is interviewed by the South C...

dGenerate’s own Kevin Lee was interviewed by Michèle Vicat of 3 dots water, a virtual publication of Chinese and global art. Disc...

By Christen Cornell Note: Beijing Besieged by Waste will screen at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Film Expo, Friday March 16 201...

By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph Ji Dan Originally from Heilongjiang, Ji Dan is a documentary filmmaker who has worked extensively in both China...

By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph Alison Klayman (alisonklayman.com) Alison Klayman is a journalist who, while living in China from 2006-2010, pr...