http://dgeneratefilms.com Distributing the finest in Chinese independent film today Sat, 12 May 2012 08:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dgeneratefilms.com/jian-yi/comment-page-1/#comment-33806 China’s Vicarious Democracy Online and In the News | dGenerate Films Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:35:28 +0000 http://dgeneratefilms.com/?page_id=975#comment-33806 [...] strictly apolitical context. The TV show Super Girls, a voter-driven talent show and the subject of Jian Yi‘s documentary Super Girls!, was recently given the ax after numerous successful seasons on [...] [...] strictly apolitical context. The TV show Super Girls, a voter-driven talent show and the subject of Jian Yi‘s documentary Super Girls!, was recently given the ax after numerous successful seasons on [...]

]]> http://dgeneratefilms.com/jian-yi/comment-page-1/#comment-32817 SARFT Tightens Regulations on “Excessive Entertainment” | dGenerate Films Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:26:17 +0000 http://dgeneratefilms.com/?page_id=975#comment-32817 [...] the same fate as Super Girls. The 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. [...] [...] the same fate as Super Girls. The 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. [...]

]]> http://dgeneratefilms.com/jian-yi/comment-page-1/#comment-31490 CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Filmmaker Wu Wenguang | dGenerate Films Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:11:19 +0000 http://dgeneratefilms.com/?page_id=975#comment-31490 [...] Jian Yi’s IFChina Original Studio has closed recently. What do you think about this? Does it create any [...] [...] Jian Yi’s IFChina Original Studio has closed recently. What do you think about this? Does it create any [...]

]]> http://dgeneratefilms.com/jian-yi/comment-page-1/#comment-31371 Getting the Past Out Loud: Wu Wenguang’s Memory Project and New Voices In Documentary Film at NYU | dGenerate Films Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:28:25 +0000 http://dgeneratefilms.com/?page_id=975#comment-31371 [...] film notably also  show the 80-hou generation in a markedly different light than films like  Jian Yi‘s sometimes absurdist, reality-TV-centered documentary  Super, Girls! (Jian Yi, one of the [...] [...] film notably also  show the 80-hou generation in a markedly different light than films like  Jian Yi‘s sometimes absurdist, reality-TV-centered documentary  Super, Girls! (Jian Yi, one of the [...]

]]> http://dgeneratefilms.com/jian-yi/comment-page-1/#comment-29973 dGenerate’s Karin Chien Featured on Filmwax Podcast | dGenerate Films Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:27:44 +0000 http://dgeneratefilms.com/?page_id=975#comment-29973 [...] on Brooklyn-based filmmakers and ventures, recently hosted a mini-series of dGenerate faire: Jian Yi’s Super, Girls! and Peng Tao‘s Little [...] [...] on Brooklyn-based filmmakers and ventures, recently hosted a mini-series of dGenerate faire: Jian Yi’s Super, Girls! and Peng Tao‘s Little [...]

]]> http://dgeneratefilms.com/jian-yi/comment-page-1/#comment-28975 Screening China: So Long IFChina Original Studio | dGenerate Films Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:44:19 +0000 http://dgeneratefilms.com/?page_id=975#comment-28975 [...] post of October 29, I noted that IFChina Original Studio, an initiative of Chinese filmmaker Jian Yi and his wife Eva, had been told it had to leave Jinggangshan University. Last Saturday (November 5) [...] [...] post of October 29, I noted that IFChina Original Studio, an initiative of Chinese filmmaker Jian Yi and his wife Eva, had been told it had to leave Jinggangshan University. Last Saturday (November 5) [...]

]]> http://dgeneratefilms.com/jian-yi/comment-page-1/#comment-21968 China Pulls the Plug on Super Girl Singing Contest | dGenerate Films Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:00:11 +0000 http://dgeneratefilms.com/?page_id=975#comment-21968 [...] labeling of 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 [...] [...] labeling of 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 [...]

]]> http://dgeneratefilms.com/jian-yi/comment-page-1/#comment-3933 CinemaTalk: Jian Yi at the Beijing Apple Store | dGenerate Films Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:43:00 +0000 http://dgeneratefilms.com/?page_id=975#comment-3933 [...] Jian Yi is a filmmaker from China whose work actively engages 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 ordinary villagers from across China used video cameras to record the changing rural dynamics in their home villages. Jian Yi is also the founder of the Participatory Documentary Center at Jinggangshan University and Original Studio, one of the nation’s first innovative community art centers. His documentaries and feature films, which reveal the social and cultural tensions of contemporary China, have won international awards and are shown worldwide. He is a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow. [...] [...] Jian Yi is a filmmaker from China whose work actively engages 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 ordinary villagers from across China used video cameras to record the changing rural dynamics in their home villages. Jian Yi is also the founder of the Participatory Documentary Center at Jinggangshan University and Original Studio, one of the nation’s first innovative community art centers. His documentaries and feature films, which reveal the social and cultural tensions of contemporary China, have won international awards and are shown worldwide. He is a 2010 Open Society Institute Fellow. [...]

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