The beautiful new film by acclaimed director Zhang Yuan

Zhang Yuan, Director

Independent film director and producer Zhang Yuan was born in Nanjing (Province of Jian Su), P.R. China, in 1963. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinematography from the Beijing Film Academy in 1989. In 1990, Zhang produced and directed his first feature film, MAMA, which tells the story of a young, single mother and her retarded son. MAMA subsequently won the Jury Award and a Special Mention at France's Festival des Trois Continents.

His second feature, 'Beijing Bastards', completed in 1992, won a Special Mention at the Locarno Film Festival and the Jury Award at the Singapore Film Festival. In 1994, Zhang produced, directed and filmed a long documentary, 'The Square', which won a Jury Award at the Hawaii Film Festival. The following year he produced and directed SONS, which won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam. His next film 'EastPalace, West Palace', the story of a gay writer and his captor, produced in 1996, won various awards including best direction at Mar del Plata Film Festival.

The next two years saw him revisiting his favorite genre and the results are two documentaries: 'Demolition and Relocation', 1998, a winner of the 3rd 'Asia Now' TV Documentary Proposals Competition, and 'Crazy English', 1999, which won the Best Documentary award at the 2nd Filmmakers Film Festival, Milan, Italy. In 1999 Zhang Yuan also directed a feature film 'Seventeen Years', a family drama of hate, crime and reconciliation, which won the Best Director award at the 56th Venice Film Festival.

Director Zhang Yuan Zhang Yuan - Filmography
  • 2005 LITTLE RED FLOWERS (KAN SHANG QU HEN MEI)
  • 2002 GREEN TEA (LU CHA)
  • 2002 JIANG JIE (JIANG JIE)
  • 2002 I LOVE YOU (WO AI NI)
  • 2000 HAINAN HAINAN (HAINAN HAINAN)
  • 2000 MISS JIN XING (JIN XING XIAOJIE)
  • 1999 SEVENTEEN YEARS (GUONIAN HUIJIA)
  • 1999 CRAZY ENGLISH (FENGKUANG YINGYU)
  • 1998 DEMOLITION AND RELOCATION (DING ZI HU)
  • 1996 EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE (DONG GONG, XI GONG)
  • 1995 SONS (ERZI)
  • 1994 THE SQUARE (GUANGCHANG)
  • 1992 BEIJING BASTARDS (BEIJING ZAZHONG)
  • 1990 MAMA (MAMA)

2002 was his most productive year: he directed three films: 'Jiang Jie', a cinematic version of a revolutionary Beijing Opera of the same title; 'I Love You', an urban romantic drama; and 'Green Tea', a romantic mystery.

Zhang is also an active MTV producer and director. His direction of Cui Jian's 'Wild in The Snow' won the Best Asian MTV Award at the American MTV Awards in 1991. His 'A Piece of Red Cloth' won a Special Mention at San Francisco's Golden Gate Awards.

Zhang Yuan was selected by Time Magazine in 1994 as one of the hundred young world leaders for the next century.

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