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Jul 19, 2010
Film Threat Reviews <i>Queer China, ‘Comrade China’</i>
Queer China, 'Comrade China' (dir. Cui Zi'en) By Isabella Tianzi Cai In the online film journal Film Threat, Phil Hall recently reviewed...
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Jul 11, 2010
CNEX announces Documentary Call for Entries
Details and application information after the break. CNEX Chinese Doc Forum (CCDF) is taking place on Oct. 31st and Nov. 1st in Taipei,...
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Jun 24, 2010
Chinese Documentaries Available for Free Viewing
In May and June 2010, IDFA is traveling though China, where the festival is presenting several documentary programs in Beijing and...
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May 10, 2010
Awards Announced at 7th China Documentary Film Festival
The Festival announced its awards for the following films (with citations by the jury in quotes): Independent Spirit Award Spiral...
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Apr 15, 2010
Documentary screenings at Beijing Iberia Center This Weekend
Last Lumberjacks (dir. Yu Guangyi) Organized by Indie Workshop, Non-Profit Incubator (NPI) and the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art,...
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Mar 8, 2010
Acclaimed Documentary <i>Ghost Town</i> Makes Weeklong Run at MoMA
Ghost Town (dir. Zhao Dayong) Following its triumphant US Premiere at the 2009 New York Film Festival, Zhao Dayong’s Ghost Town will...
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Feb 15, 2010
Venice Prizewinning <i>1428</i> to screen at MoMA
1428, directed by Du Haibin, won last year’s Best Documentary Award at the Venice International Film Festival. A stunning exploration of...
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Jan 31, 2010
Zhao Liang interviewed about </i>Petition</i>
Zhao Liang To commemorate Zhao Liang’s visit to the United States, we have translated a lengthy interview with Zhao, originally published...
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Jan 15, 2010
Skirmishes and Struggles Over Tibet Docs
Filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam (photo courtesy of Friends of Tibet.org) Chinese authorities have withdrawn two films from the...
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Nov 2, 2009
Chinese Independent Documentaries at Light Industry (NYC)
Crude Oil (Photo courtesy of Light Industry) Triple Canopy and Light Industry present the East Coast premiere of Wang Bing’s Crude Oil, a...
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Oct 20, 2009
Chinese Indies Awarded at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
In this year’s Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, running from October 8 to October 15, Chinese director Cong Feng’s...
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Oct 14, 2009
Sixty Years of Unsanctioned Memories in the People’s Republic
At the 60th anniversary of the founding of the P.R.C., Fanhall.com published a list of fifteen key independent documentaries as their...
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Sep 25, 2009
Chris Berry on <i>Ghost Town</i>
I received the following message from Chris Berry, who had recently watched the film Ghost Town by Zhao Dayong, which will have its...
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Sep 14, 2009
Jian Yi to Show New Documentary at Yale
dGenerate director Jian Yi (Super, Girls!) is to screen his new work New Socialist Climax (Hong Se Zhi Lü) at the Auditorium of...
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Sep 11, 2009
Zhao Dayong’s <em>Ghost Town</em> Premieres at the NYFF, Tix on Sale Sunday!
The dGenerate team have been working feverishly in preparation for Zhao Dayong’s amazing documentary (and dGenerate title) Ghost Town‘s...
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Sep 9, 2009
Shelly on Film: What is a Chinese Film?
By Shelly Kraicer San Yuan Li (dir. Ou Ning, 2003) What is a Chinese film? Ever since I’ve started living and working in Beijing over...
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Sep 7, 2009
American Idol as… Underground Cinema?
Jian Yi behind the scenes of Super, Girls! Recent d(igital)-generation films are considered “underground” not only due to subject matter....
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Aug 19, 2009
<i>Ghost Town</i>: a New Chapter for Chinese Cinema at the New York Film Festival
Ghost Town (photo courtesy of Fanhall Films) Marking a breakthrough for the Chinese digital filmmaking community, director Zhao Dayong’s...
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Aug 6, 2009
A “Brighter” Future
Ten Thousand Pig Farm, Jiangxi (Photo courtesy of Brighter Green) We’re excited to announce a new partnership with environmental policy...
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Jul 22, 2009
dGenerate in the Blogosphere
A couple nice mentions lately of a couple of our filmmakers as well as on dGenerate Films. Cindy Carter of website Paper Tiger includes...
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