Posts Tagged ‘yu guangyi’

Three New Chinese Indie Docs Reviewed in Variety and Twitch

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

By Kevin B. Lee

"Are We Really So Far from the Madhouse?"

Covering the Vancouver International Film Festival for Variety, Robert Koehler has been filing rave reviews of some new Chinese independent documentaries he’s seen at the festival’s Dragons and Tigers lineup. We are excited to see his praise for Bachelor Mountain, the new film by Yu Guangyi (whose Timber Gang is distributed by dGenerate) and Are We Really So Far from the Madhouse, the latest by Li Hongqi (whose Winter Vacation is available through dGF).

Coincidentally, the same three documentaries are also reviewed enthusiastically by Kathie Smith, who covered VIFF for the website Twitch.

Click through to read excerpts from Koehler’s and Smith’s reviews – click on their names to access the full text of Koehler’s reviews on Variety (registration required) and Smith’s on Twitch. Also read the program notes on all Chinese language films at VIFF by programmer Shelly Kraicer.

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Hong Kong Film Festival features new films by Jia Zhangke, Zhao Liang, Xu Tong, and Yu Guangyi

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Shattered (dir. Xu Tong)

The 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival begins March 20th and runs to April 5th. We’re pleased to see that several films from directors who have films in the dGenerate catalog will be presenting new works, including some world premieres like Yu Guangyi’s Bachelor Mountain and Xu Tong’s Shattered. More information on these films, and a list of other Chinese films screening at HKIFF, after the break.

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For a Limited Time: Free Streaming of Chinese documentary Survival Song

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Survival Song (dir. Yu Guangyi)

Doc Alliance, a partnership between five European film festivals, is offering free streaming of five documentaries from the Doc Alliance Selection 2009, feature film highlights from last year’s festival circuit. One of the films is Survival Song, an acclaimed documentary by Yu Guangyi, whose debut feature was the eye-opening Last Lumberjacks (coming soon from dGenerate Films). The film is available for online viewing through April 25. It can also be purchased as a downloadable .avi or DVD file.

Click through to read more about Survival Song, and access the film.
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Zhang Xianmin on six recent Chinese documentaries

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Zhang Xianmin (photo courtesy China Independent Film Festival)

One of our key partners in China is Zhang Xianmin, who is a leading figure of the independent film scene.  Film producer, writer, programmer: these are just a few of his credentials. And now, Zhang will be contributing a series of articles for our website, offering his own perspective on Chinese indie cinema.

To kick things off, here are his thoughts on six recent Chinese independent documentaries, offering his own insights into the background on the films and filmmakers. A couple titles happen to be dGenerate titles.

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