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

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

The work of Hu Jie is little known even in China. The release of “Spark” and “The Observer” should make him better known abroad.

Huang Ji’s 2012 debut feature, Egg and Stone, shows the world of rural Chinese life through a perspective seldom seen, that of a young...

By Josh Feola Yang Mingming, a self-described “hutong kid” born in 1988 and raised in central Beijing, fell into filmmaking in college....

China on Film: A Century of Exploration, Confrontation and Controversy, by Paul Pickowicz Recently China Digital Times interviewed Paul...

Hu Jie (photo: Tania Branigan for The Observer) At the Guardian, Tania Branigan interviews Hu Jie, director of many startling...

Zhou shares her experience showing the film: OHH: Why did you want to bring What’s For Dinner? to China? WZ: The issues discussed...

Jian Yi, director of “What’s for Dinner?” (Image: BrighterGreenNY) China Dialogue recently published an interview with filmmaker Jian Yi,...

Trap Street (2013, Vivian Qu) In Film Comment magazine, Xin Zhou interviews Vivian Qu, a longtime producer of Chinese independent films...

From ChinaFile, a video profile of independent director Wang Jiuliang, whose award-winning documentary Beijing Besieged by Waste is part...

Shadow Days (dir. Zhao Dayong) Zhao Dayong, director of acclaimed documentaries Ghost Town and Street Life, is interviewed by the South...

In the current issue of Agenda Beijing Magazine, Laura Petryshen interviews dGenerate Films’ VP of Programming and Education Kevin B. Lee...

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

By Kevin B. Lee Originally published on Indiewire Last Saturday China’s independent film community faced their latest setback when the...

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

dGenerate’s own Kevin Lee was interviewed by Michèle Vicat of 3 dots water, a virtual publication of Chinese and global art....

By Christen Cornell Note: Beijing Besieged by Waste will screen at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Film Expo, Friday March 16...

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,...