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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: Wu Jiang, Male, Documentary Director, has been engaged in Documentary creation for 20 years, and has served as the International Documentary judge of China (Qinghai) World Mountain Documentary Festival. Wu jiang’s representative works are Deng Yingchao, Zheng He's Voyages to the West, the Nanjing Massacre，the Western Yinning and 23:11 (microfilm). Wu jiang has won the "Chinese Special Works" in Berlin International Short Film Festival, the “Best Documentary Award” of China TV Golden Eagle Award, the “Documentary Award” of China Television Star Award, the “Asian Production Award” of the Sichuan International “Golden Panda Award” TV Festival, the “International Peace Award” of Ukraine "Common Victory" International Film Festival, the "JADE KUNLUN Special Award” of World Mountain Documentary Festival. And the microfilm 23:11 was shortlisted for the 4th Macao International Movie Festival. Question 1:    “Pearl of the Good Earth” is a documentary abou...

  Profile: She graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a Ph. D. in statistics from the State University of New York, where She worked on Wall Street as a quantitative financial analyst, CFA certified financial analyst, and became an independent writer and director in 2013. Question 1:  “A Precious Heart” (你最珍贵) is a film about students in a Chinese university and the main character overcoming his own personal shortcomings so he can graduate and do something useful for society. What inspired this story? Answer: This film was inspired by an interview. I was then making a TV series about finance. I interviewed a very famous fund company in Beijing. By chance, I learned that this fund company was employing three interns. However, the applicants were over one thousand and they all came from the top three universities in Beijing. That means, the graduates who are not from the top three universities are not qualified for application at all. One thousand graduates from ...

  Director's Profile:  Guo Jin, born in 1962, learned music since childhood. He served as the director of operations of the China National Traditional Orchestra and the Working Committee of Typecast Actors of the China Film Association. Over the years, he has directed a few large-scale variety shows, stage plays and tourism performances. He planned to film the five-episode documentary “Exceed Samsara” starting from 2013 and completed the filming in 2016. The film was shortlisted in the semi-final section of the 2017 Guangzhou International Documentary Festival, China. The 100-episode documentary “Operas in China” planned since 2017 is being filmed. The documentary “Spring Festival in the Ancient Village” planned since 2018 has been put on record by the China Film Administration and is being submitted for approval. Question  1.  “Spring Festival in the Ancient Village” (古堡里的年) is a slice-of-life documentary about the rural community for Xiaoyi in Shanxi Province. It’s...

  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...

  Question 1: Your film “Flowering Season” is about a school boy who, in a moment of crisis, considers committing suicide. Is this film based on any real events or social trends?   Answer: Before writing the screenplay, we had an investigation. We interviewed the archetype character of the story. We took the story of him as the plot and then combined the stories of other interviewees with his.   Question 2:  What kinds of pressures and challenges do modern young people in China face? Are their lives more difficult than those of their parents when they were at school?   Answer: I think, the young generation in China is facing a series of social problems caused by the fast pace of social life, the missing cultural tradition, the temptation of violence and pornography on social media as well as overemphasis of elites on the media. Many of these factors have become the source of stress for young people. The rushing life has changed our lifestyle and transformed the ...

  Profile of Kang Jiaxiang: Kang Jiaxiang  is   a Mongolian  Chinese d irector . In 2007 , his film   “ The Funeral of Grandpa Xia ”   was s elected in the Short Film section of the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival . In  2012 , his film   “ White Sheets ”  was   s elected for the Chinesisches Film Festival in Frankfurt . In 2020 , his feature film   Mother Chrysanthemuml   was s elected for the Vancouver Chinese Film Festival .   In  2020 , his film was nominated as  Best Asian Feature Film  and  the Best Asian Actress and the Best Producer , and the Best Director of NVIFF  as well. In 2020 , his film   was s elected for the Filmarte Festival - 5th Edition .   In 2021 , his short film   “ The Smell of Memory ”   was   n ominated as the Best Original Screenplay and the Best Cinematography in the East Europe International Film Festival 2020; His documentary Dragon B...