Comments on: Super, Girls! (Chao Ji Nu Sheng)

By: SARFT Tightens Regulations on “Excessive Entertainment” | dGenerate Films

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:36:10 +0000

[...] one-time uncontested queen of Chinese reality TV and subject of Jian Yi‘s documentary Super, Girls! was cancelled last year amid a whirl of audience anguish. It’s the same sweep of regulations [...]

By: Getting the Past Out Loud: Wu Wenguang’s Memory Project and a New Voices For Documentary Film at NYU | dGenerate Films

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:27:38 +0000

[...] light than films like Jian Yi‘s sometimes absurdist, reality-TV-centered documentary Super, Girls! (Jian Yi, one of the first filmmakers to focus on the 80-hou generation, also boasts a [...]

By: dGenerate’s Karin Chien Featured on Filmwax Podcast | dGenerate Films

dGenerate’s Karin Chien Featured on Filmwax Podcast | dGenerate Films — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:31:01 +0000

[...] filmmakers and ventures, recently hosted a mini-series of dGenerate fare: Jian Yi’s Super, Girls! and Peng Tao‘s Little [...]

By: Chinese Cinema Report | dGenerate Films

Chinese Cinema Report | dGenerate Films — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:09:32 +0000

[...] offer. Zhao Liang‘s Crime and Punishment, Ou Ning‘s Meishi Street, and Jian Yi‘s Super, Girls! Also discussed are Jian Yi’s recently defunct IFChina Original Studio and his approach to [...]

By: blogwax » Filmwax screening of LITTLE MOTH

blogwax » Filmwax screening of LITTLE MOTH — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:49:21 +0000

[...] sanctioned films here in the U.S. and other points West. Last Sunday, 10/23, we screened “Super, Girls!” directed by Jian Yi which was followed by an engaging Q&A with New York Asian Film [...]

By: China Pulls the Plug on Super Girl Singing Contest | dGenerate Films

China Pulls the Plug on Super Girl Singing Contest | dGenerate Films — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:00:48 +0000

[...] it after watching one episode with friends in 2005, documentary filmmaker Jian Yi started to make Super, Girls! (2007) in 2006. Following ten contestants for months on end with his DV camera, he is the first [...]

By: A Visit to the IFChina Original Studio with Filmmaker Jian Yi | dGenerate Films

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:52:22 +0000

[...] here,” explains Jian Yi, a gently spoken local filmmaker whose credits include the documentary Super, Girls (2007). Jian Yi founded IFChina Original Studio with his wife Eva in 2009 on the campus of [...]

By: Shooting Down Pictures » Blog Archive » “Living the Dream”

Shooting Down Pictures » Blog Archive » “Living the Dream” — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:44:14 +0000

[...] my dream to immortalize their endeavors. I had a terrific host: Jian Yi, whose film Super Girls! is distributed by dGenerate, and who has set up his own center for cultural and social projects in the small, [...]

By: CinemaTalk: Jian Yi at the Beijing Apple Store | dGenerate Films

CinemaTalk: Jian Yi at the Beijing Apple Store | dGenerate Films — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:13:43 +0000

[...] ordinary citizens in documenting their own lives. He directed the critically acclaimed films Super, Girls! and Bamboo Shoots, and co-directed the groundbreaking China Village Documentary Project, in which [...]

By: Video: Jian Yi Speaks to Soros Foundation / Open Society Institute | dGenerate Films

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:36:49 +0000

[...] independent filmmakers working in China today. Jian Yi directed the critically acclaimed films Super, Girls! and Bamboo Shoots, and co-directed the groundbreaking China Village Documentary Project, in which [...]