Cui Zi En

Name: Cui Zi En
Native name: 崔子恩
Also Known as: Cui Zi'en
Nationality: Chinese
Gender: Male
Born: 1958
Age: 68

Cui Zi En is a film director, producer, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an outspoken LGBT activist based in Beijing. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with an MA in literature and now is an associate professor at the Film Research Institute of the Beijing Film Academy.

Cui Zi En is one of the avant-garde DV makers in Chinese underground film. He has published nine novels in China and Hong Kong, one of which, Uncle's Past, won the 2001 Radio Literature Award in Germany. In the same year, he founded the Beijing Queer Film Festival, the first LGBT film festival in mainland China. He is also the author of books on criticism and theory, as well as a columnist for magazines.

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Year	Title	Type	Rating
2013	The Wild Strawberries	Movie	5.0
2004	Pirated Copy	Movie	8.0
1999	Men and Women	Movie	6.2

Year	Title	Type	Rating
2005	My Fair Son	Movie	5.6

Year	Title	Type	Rating
2009	Queer China, 'Comrade' China	Movie	6.7
2005	Night Scene	Movie	6.7
2005	Withered in a Blooming Season	Movie	4.5
2004	Star Appeal	Movie	5.1
2002	Enter the Clowns	Movie	0.0
2001	The Old Testament	Movie	6.4

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2003	Welcome to Destination Shanghai Chinese Movie, 2003, (Unknown)	Unknown	7.0
2002	Enter the Clowns Chinese Movie, 2002, (Unknown)	Unknown	0.0

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