Zhang Xianmin
Zhang Xianmin is a film critic, curator and professor in Literature Department of Beijing Film Academy. He was born in Nanjing city in 1964. After he graduated from Beijing Foreign Language University in 1985, he studied in Université Paris III and graduated in 1987. He graduated from FEMIS France in 1992. Zhang was invited to be judges in several European and Asian film festivals and is the founder of the theory of independent movies in China. He once acted in “Rainclouds Over Wushan”, “Summer Palace” and joined the production of many indie movies such as “Raised From Dust”, “Youth”, “Crossroad”, “Fujian Blue” etc.
His publications include “Introduction to Cinematography” (translation), “All about DV” and “Invisible Images”.
Lv Xinyu
Lv Xinyu is a documentary scholar and a professor in the School of Journalism in Fudan University. She graduated from the Chinese Department in Anhui University and got a BA in 1987. She received her M.A in modern literature studies at Hangzhou University in 1990 and Ph.D in aesthetics at Fudan University in 1993.
Lv Xinyu now works as the director of the Broadcast and Television Department of the School of Journalism in Fudan University, director of Fudan－Goldsmiths Documentary Research Centre and vise director of Fudan University Visual Arts Research Centre. Her research interests include New Documentary Movement in China，theory of film and TV, cultural studies, political economy of communication.
As the judge of the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival 2003, Lv Xinyu contributed a lot to collecting and classifying files about the history and theory of the New Documentary Movement.
Her publications include “Document China: New Documentary Movement in Contemporary China”, “Writing and Sheltering: Collection of Image, Media and Cultural Studies”, etc.
Yang Fudong
Yang Fudong, is a contemporary artist and experimental film director. He was born in 1971 in Beijing, and graduated from China Academy of Art in 1995. Now he lives in Shanghai. Yang is mainly involved in the working taking cinematography and video recording as mediums. He is a representative Chinese contemporary video artist, as well as a leader in Chinese experimental films. His works are widely exhibited in galleries and biennale in the world. In the early 1997 his film “Strange Paradise” started the industry of China experimental film. In 2001, his black and white shorts “Chamber: Hey! It’s Day” won “The Best Short Experimental Film” in the 1st Independent Image Festival in Beijing. His most typical work “Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove” (300 mins) which was created through 2003-2008 is a milestone work in Chinese experimental films.
Zhang Yuan
Zhang Yuan, a movie scriptwriter and director, director of documentary. He was born in 1963 in Nanjing, Jiangsu. In 1989, he graduated from Beijing Film Academy. Zhang is the pioneer of China’s Independent Film. He was elected by the American “Time Magazine” as "World’s 100 Youth Leaders in 21st Century”. As early as in 1989 he personally started financing independent filmmaking, and completed Chinese first independent film “Mama”. His early works includes a music video with Cui Jian “Wild in the Snow”, movies “Beijing Bastards”, “East Palace, West Palace”, documentary “The Square” and “Crazy English” by which he has won a lot of awards in the world. Then in 1999 he proved a significant international success in winning the Best Director award at the Venice Film Festival for his movie “Seventeen Years”, and in 2001 he was awarded the Culture & Peace Prize by UN, and in 2006 he won the Robert Bryson Award in Vatican. He was often invited as the judge for many international movie festivals in Europe, Asia and America.
Zhu Zhu
Zhu Zhu, a poet, contemporary art critic and curator, was born in 1969. He graduated from Shanghai East China University of Politics and Law. He became an independent poet in 1998 and has won many poetry awards ever since. After 2005, he turned to contemporary art criticism and was recognized as the most important emerging curators in recent years. His contemporary art exhibition mainly are: "the Yangtze River Bridge" and "Origin: An Exhibition of Star Art Association", "The Rotation: Red Tour Exhibition", etc. His published works involved poetry like “To Another Planet", "Salt in the Withered-grass", "Smoke" (in French), “The Trunk”, and essays like “Faint”, “Empty City”, critic essays like “Artists in Art Criticism”.
