Xie Fei (director)
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Hanyu Pinyin | Xiè Fēi |
Xie Fei (Chinese: 谢飞; pinyin: Xiè Fēi; born August 14, 1942) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, producer, film professor and film critic.[1]
Early life
Xie was born August 14 in
In 1960 he was enrolled in Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy, and graduated in 1965.[2]
Career
Xie Fei has taught at his alma mater as an instructor and professor since and was the vice-president of that institution from 1985-1989. Although he has not made many films due to The Great Culture Revolution (1966-1976) and teaching career, most of his works are critics' favorites. Several of them won international film festival awards. His A Girl From Human (1986) and A Mongolian Tale (1995) were commercially distributed American movie theaters.[citation needed]
After Song of Tibet (2000) was censored for 6 month before releasing in few theaters, he stopped making films(at the age of 59). He has worked as producer, film festival juries in China and abroad.[citation needed]
In 2001 he directed 23 episodes of TV drama Sun Rise adapted from a play by noted Chinese playwright Cao YU 曹禺(1910-1996).[3]
On December 15, 2012 Xie Fei posted an open letter on Weibo a popular Chinese Blog calling for changes of film censorship and won great support from film makers.[4]
Selected films
Year | English Title | Chinese Title | Notes |
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1983 | Our Farmland | 我们的田野 | Best Cinematopgraphy nomination at the 4th Golden Rooster Film Awards China |
1986 | A Girl from Hunan | 湘女萧萧 | Don Quixote Award at The 34th San Sebastian Internattional Film Festival |
1990 | Black Snow | 本命年 | Silver Bear winner in the 40th Berlin International Film Festival[5] |
1993 | Woman Sesame Oil Maker | 香魂女 | Golden Bear winner in the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival[6] |
1995 | A Mongolian Tale | 黑骏马 | Best Director in the 19th Monteal International Film Festival |
2000 | Song of Tibet | 益西卓玛 | Best Screen Writer Special Award 20th Chinese Golden Rooster Film Awards |
References
- ISBN 0-415-15168-6,PN1993.5.Z53
- ISBN 1-891936-94-8PN1993.5.C4O54 2005
- ^ P184-185 from Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema Tan Ye and Yun Zhu Copy right 2012 by Tan Ye and Yun Zhu.
Published by Scraecrow Press,Inc 2012 ISBN 978-0-8108-6779-6PN1993.5.C4Y43 2013
- ^ P106 China’s Encounter with Global Hollywood :Cultural Policy and the Film Industry 1994-2013 Wendy Su
Copy Right The University Press of Kentucky 2016 ISBN 9780813167084PN1993.5.C4 S887 2016
- ^ "Berlinale: 1990 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-03-17. [dead link]
- ^ "Berlinale: 1993 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-06-08. [dead link]
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