English translation by John Pao-chuan Wang Ding Ningyuan: This film is based on your grandfather's life experience, what motivated you to...

In conversation three of her third anthology, Pamela Cohn speaks with creative producer and distributor Karin Chien.

Long gone are the days when Chinese film directors could shoot their films and win awards abroad without complications back home.

After viewing the interview footage, of these four factory women in a dormitory space, we immediately knew that’s the film we want.

ZHU Rikun is a name that should be familiar to anyone paying attention to Chinese independents.

This October the Jacob Burns Film Center presents “Hidden China,” a monthlong series of independent documentaries produced in China,...

By Kevin B. Lee Last weekend the 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival opened with the domestic premiere of Egg and Stone, which won a...

By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph Ji Dan Originally from Heilongjiang, Ji Dan is a documentary filmmaker who has worked extensively in both China...

By Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph Alison Klayman (alisonklayman.com) Alison Klayman is a journalist who, while living in China from 2006-2010,...

By Maya E. Rudolph After his screening series premiering many works from the Getting the Past Out Loud: Memory Projects at New York...

By Maya E. Rudolph Song Hwee Lim and Julian Ward are editors of the recently published The Chinese Cinema Book (BFI and Palgrave...

By Michael Chenkin Professor Eugene Wang Eugene Yuejin Wang is Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. We...

In the August 14 edition of the New York Times, Edward Wong profiles Zhao Liang, director of two of the most fearlessly independent...

Interviewed by Michael Chenkin Chris Berry Chris Berry is Professor of film and television studies at Goldsmiths University of London,...

By Michael Chenkin Ying Qian Ying Qian is a PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Qian’s area of...

By Michael Chenkin Guo-Juin Hong is Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University. Hong has...

Li Ning, director of Tape Tape, a highly experimental documentary by performance artist, dancer and filmmaker Li Ning, made its European...

Zhao Liang, director of the acclaimed films Petition and Crime and Punishment (distributed by dGenerate), was present at the...

By Dan Edwards Ou NIng In addition to being an artist, curator, writer, and director of the Shao Foundation, China’s cultural renaissance...

This entry is part of a weeklong spotlight of newly available titles in the dGenerate Films catalog. Director Liu Jiayin was interviewed...