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  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...

 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...

  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...