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  Director’s Introduction:  Name：Guo Yuming. Male Chinese mainland director, good at shooting character performance, telling stories to capture the inner emotions of characters, humor, action and so on. XieJin Star art school first personally taught disciples. Engaged in the advertising industry for more than ten years, he is one of the leading directors in the local film and television advertising industry. His works are controlled by the rhythm of relaxation, rich artistic color, and prominent film style. Be good at using the language of the film lens to narrate the story and capture the inner emotions of the characters. In the integration of Eastern and Western culture and visual art, he has formed a unique visual aesthetic appreciation, which makes his works more international. Although he has been struggling in the advertising industry, he still does not forget to pursue his movie dream. It is because of this dedication and effort that he has become what he is today. He l...

       Director’s Introduction:  Jianlin Pan was born from northwest region of China in 1969. He graduated from a university in Beijing with law degree, specialized in economic laws. He self-funded his film producing/directing career in his early 30’s, and produced and directed three feature films and two documentaries. Some of his films were in the finalist and rewarded from well-known film festivals such as Berlin International Film Festival, and Locarno Film Festival.  Unfortunately, none of his films obtained commercial release permit in China. He was broken, and returned to his hometown since 2008. He started to do business since then to make a living for his family and himself.  Film Synopsis: Pan is a single father, who raise two underage boys (Xiaoxiao and Lele) along.  Trying to compensate the lacking of maternal love for the two boys, Pan decorated the house with bright colors. He treats his boys with thoughtful kindness in dai...

    Director Profile: Ding Haoran: born in 2001.02.13, currently studying at Hebei University-Central Lancashire College of Media and Creativity, majoring in drama, film and television literature. He has directed the short documentary "Ask Wing Chun", which has won awards at several international film festivals, and directed the martial arts drama short film "The Soul Returns Home", "The Cause of Death of the Hedgehog" as the second work of his drama short film. Film synopsis: The kind-hearted Jon and his wife were slandered by netizens due to an accident. Lady Lucy died in the accident. Jon committed suicide due to cyber-violence. The girl they took in, Chen Anna, sought the help of journalist Paul in order to help them restore the truth.   Paul inadvertently angered Anna in the interview. Anna's emotional behavior plunged her into greater cyber-violence. Director's Statement: I hope to use Anna's experience to appeal to all online friends to ...

  Profile: Bachelor of Economics, East China University of Political Science and Law, 2014. Master of Political Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2016. EDBA candidate, Business Management at the University of Montpellier, 2020. Question 1: Avenger (复仇) is a film about a woman who takes revenge upon her sister’s murderers who could not be tried as adults for their crime due to their age. What drew you to this story, and why did you want to make this film? This film primarily explores "equal retaliation," or "lex talionis" in Latin. This kind of retribution is rarely seen in modern society, as people often turn to the judicial system to resolve conflicts. However, what happens when the law itself is flawed or the judicial system fails to deliver a fair judgment based on the law? At that point, the majority might accept their fate, but a few individuals may opt for "an eye for an eye" action to achieve what they perceive as justice. The lead charact...

  Profile: Director Deng bin, enlisted at the age of 17 ， since then, he has been engaged in news media and graphic photography ， In 2005, he joined the Economic Science Press as an editor ， Since the establishment of Kalman (Beijing) film and television culture media Co., Ltd. in 2008, Four episodes of documentary "looking for Cao Xueqin" were filmed in 2012 calendar year ， In 2015, he studied in the class of producer and director of Beijing Film Academy ， In 2016, the work "forgotten gift" won 5 domestic awards and 4 international awards ， In 2017, there were two domestic awards for shooting the micro film Qinglian ， In 2018, the public welfare micro film "memories of coffee" won the first prize in the integrity micro film competition of the people's Bank of China. From 2018 to 2021, he shot six episodes of documentary "hometown on the horizon" and was shortlisted for the 11th documentary Academy Award in 2021.   Question 1: Deng Bin. The d...

  Profile: Ding Haoran: Born on 2001.02.13, he is currently studying at Hebei University-Central Lancashire College of Media and Creativity, Film. Major Courses: Audio Production, Video Production, Documentary Creation, Narrative Film Creation, Film and Television Screenwriting, Film and Television Writing, Computer Cartography, etc., he has directed many films such as: Life Should Be Like This, Quietly Love You, Healthy Superman, etc. and has won a large number of awards in China. And he has composed music: Light up youth, join hands with the Winter Olympics, run to the future Has been reported by many well-known media in China.   Question 1: Ding Haoran, the director of ‘Ask Wing Chun’, has made films about a wide variety of subjects; Life Should Be Like This, Quietly Love You & Healthy Superman to name three. What made you want to make a film about Wing Chun Kung-Fu?   Ans: Because Wing Chun is a representative martial art among traditional Chinese martial arts, it...

 Sfilmmaker Filmmaker interviews      Q&A "Wake Up With You"       (陪你醒来）      GUEST： He Shaowei      Film: Wake Up With You      Country: China       Interviewer: Sfilmmaker Question 1: ‘Wake Up With You’ uses dance and choreography to tell it’s story about infidelity and mental illness. What made you approach this subject in such a unique way?   Answer: I am also a choreograph er. I also takes dance to represent the world and express my emotion. From 2015, I attempted to combine film with choreography . I made some short films to face the problems of the modern society and the internal emotions of the people in the modern age. I find the unique and great aesthetic effect  from the combination. So, I want to add more organic and reasonable dance elements in more films in the future. I hope I can bring out more novelties with such a unique way of expression and it can w...

  Question 1.  “Chinese New Year’s Eve” is a film about the eponymous festival, which is also known as Spring Festival in China. Chinese New Year has often been described as the East Asian equivalent of Christmas. What’s the significance of Chinese New Year to Chinese people? Answer : Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people over thousands of years. This tradition has lasted for 2000 years. On the Chinese New Year, all families will have reunion parties and all debts will be cleared. Then, it really means the new beginng. Everyone wishes that everything will go well in the New Year and everything will be different. Of course, it is a good wish. However, it is just a wish. Life is never like what we wish. All unsolved questiones in the previous year will still  emerge in the new year. With the coming of the Internet era, people’s life is more and more fragmented. The Chinese New Year which had been celebrated for a month in the past is now shorten...

  Profile of Leon Zhao: Leon Zhao is a young Chinese director and scriptwriter, who was born in Shanxi in the 1980s, and now lives in Beijing. Leon began to learn oil painting when he was a little child, which laid a solid foundation for his accomplishment in fine arts. He once obtained a bachelor's degree of Multimedia Art Design at Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, and later further studied Directing at Beijing Film Academy. He also studied at Hollywood, the United States. Leon has been committed to producing ingenious, thought-provoking, and touching films that suit both refined and popular tastes. 1.  Leon Zhao, the director of “Run Shunzi!” was originally a painter. Other painters who became film directors include Fritz Lang, Ridley Scott and David Lynch. Do painters make good film directors and what about the world or art prepares one for film-making?   Frame is a very important element for film making. Painting can cultivate one ’ s sense of frame. D...

  Profile of the director: Director Xu Youshi (徐有时）is a photographer who’s work has always taken him to the edge of modern cinema, a media which he loves. He’s been writing scripts since 2018 and in 2020 he shot his first short film “My Beloved”. The following year he wrote and completed his first feature “Chenxiang”: he’s currently working on another short film. 1.  My Beloved is about “Left Behind Children”; the kids who are left in rural areas by parents who travel to China’s cities to find work. How serious a problem is this and what should be done to tackle this problem? A: There are many in China. At least there are a lot around me. The whole society is trying to care about these children. But they lack the love from their parents. Only their parents can solve this problem.   2.  There is an old saying that one should never work with either children or animals. Yet for Xu Youshi’s first short film you decided to work with both. What attracted you to want to mak...