LI Yifan

Li Yifan was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1965 and grew up in Chongqing. Li studied at the Central Academy of Drama from 1987 to 1991. His 2005 work BEFORE THE FLOOD, produced in collaboration with Yan Yu, was awarded the Wolfgang Staudte award in the Forum of New Cinema category at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival, the Cinéma du réel Scam International Award, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Grand Prize and the YUNFEST “Bronze Prize.” By the end of 2007, he completed Village Archive: Longwangcun 2006 Video Files. He developed a project entitled Law, for which he is filming Zhou Litai, a lawyer famous for providing legal aid to migrant workers. He currently lives and works in Chongqing.

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