Liu Jiayin

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Liu Jiayin is a Chinese independent filmmaker and educator, born in

documentary and narrative elements, Oxhide (2005) and Oxhide II
(2009), both of which received international awards.

First film

Liu aspired to become a filmmaker as early as high school. As her graduation project at the

FIPRESCI Award in the Forum of New Cinema. It also screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, where Liu received the Golden DV Award for best digital work, and at the Vancouver International Film Festival, where she received the top Dragons and Tigers Award for East Asian cinema.[1]

Second film

In 2009 Liu finished her second film, Oxhide II. With a similar focus on her family, this "sequel" was seen as more simple and radical in construction, employing only nine separate shots in a running time of over two hours. All the film's narrative occurs in the real-time process of Liu and her family preparing to make, making, cooking and eating

Chinese cinema in the 2000s decade by critic Shelly Kraicer.[2]

Neither of Liu's films received commercial theatrical distribution, but her works are distributed in North America digitally by Dgenerate Films. Her works have also been screened at universities in China and abroad. Today she teaches in the literature department at BFA.

References

  1. ^ "Vancouver International Film Festival". www.viff.org. Award history.
  2. ^ "Shelly's Top Ten Mainland Chinese films of the 2000s « dGenerate Films". dgeneratefilms.com.
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