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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, selected Zhu Rikun, producer, programmer and founder of Fanhall Studio. Zhu Rikun is a major figure in contemporary Chinese independent film, having produced such acclaimed films as Karamay and Winter Vacation. Earlier in 2012 he served as an advisor on “Hidden Histories,” a series of Chinese independent documentaries co-curated by Gertjan Zuilh

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Oct 24, 2011

Beijing Independent Film Festival Proceeds Under Pressure; Full Program Listed

Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore reports for IPS: The Sixth Beijing Independent Film Festival (BIFF) has had to switch venues twice following pressure by the police, obliging the organisers to inform festival-goers of the last-minute location changes. BIFF, now in its sixth year, is showing over 50 cutting-edge feature films, documentaries, experimental works and animations in Songzhuang, a village on the outskirts of Beijing which is known as a hub for its avant-garde artistic comm

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Aug 28, 2011

CinemaTalk: Conversation with Edward Wong of the New York Times on Chinese Indie Filmmaking

In the August 14 edition of the New York Times, Edward Wong profiles Zhao Liang, director of two of the most fearlessly independent social documentaries to come from China, Crime and Punishment and Petition. Zhao has recently transitioned to work with the Chinese government to produce Together, an “official” documentary on Chinese HIV victims. That decision and an earlier one involving involving Zhao’s withdrawal from an Australian film festival in support of a political prot

Jia Zhangke Speaks Out Against Censorship

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Jul 13, 2011

Jia Zhangke Speaks Out Against Censorship

Jia Zhangke speaks out at a forum held at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival (photo: china.org.cn) Originally published in The Guardian, June 16 2011 He had to abandon one film lest it broke anti-pornography laws. Then he ditched a spy movie rather than fill it with Communist party “superheroes”. The frustration of making films in a country with “cultural over-cleanliness” has led an internationally acclaimed Chinese director to lash out at its censors, a state new

Chinese Directors Win at HK Documentary Fest, Say They Enjoy Freedom

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Jul 12, 2011

Chinese Directors Win at HK Documentary Fest, Say They Enjoy Freedom

By Kevin Lee Zhou Hao presents his film "The Transition Period" at the China Documentary Festival in Hong Kong (photo: Associated Press) The 2011 Chinese Documentary Festival in Hong Kong concluded earlier this month with awards given to The Transition Period by Zhou Hao and One Day in May by Ma Zhandong. The Transition Period will be distributed later this year by dGenerate, which already distributes one of Zhou’s earlier films, Using. In a report on the festival for the As

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May 12, 2011

Shelly on Film: The Film Festival That Wasn’t

By Shelly Kraicer Since the story made various international news outlets late last month, you may already have heard of the cancellation of this year’s DOChina, the independent documentary film festival scheduled for May 1 to May 7 in Songzhuang, an artists’ village in the suburb of Beijing. Well, it was cancelled, but a number of us still made the one and a half hour trek to Songzhuang, whether out of habit or hope that there would be some films waiting for us. DOChina was

Superblogger Han Han on Why “China Can’t Be a Cultural Superpower”

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Jun 23, 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 Time, 28-year-old Chinese writer and rally racer Han Han has been in fact long well-known within China. While in high school, his essay “Seeing Ourselves in a Cup” won the first prize in China’s New Concept Writing Competition. Not long after, he dropped out of high school to free himself from China’s intensely selective education system and

Tibetan Filmmaker to Be Tried for Subversion

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Nov 16, 2009

Tibetan Filmmaker to Be Tried for Subversion

Dhondup Wangchen (Photo courtesy of the New York Times) According to a report on New York Times from Chongqing, China, a self-taught filmmaker who spent five months interviewing Tibetans about their hopes and frustrations living under Chinese rule is facing charges of state subversion after the footage was smuggled abroad and distributed on the Internet and at film festivals around the world. Dhondup Wangchen, 35, has been detained since March 2008, just weeks after deadly ri

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Oct 3, 2009

DV Management Regulation in the People’s Republic of China

In the New York Times article “Indie Filmmakers: China’s New Guerillas” reporter Kirk Semple mentions an “undefined gray area” in which today’s digital independent filmmakers work under the close watch (and occasional intervention) of the government. As a background information resource, we have procured and translated the official government statement concerning the monitoring of digital video work in China, issued in 2004, and referred to whenever a party is prosecuted for

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