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Alexi Tan
Alexi Tan aka Chen Yi Li is a Chinese-American director/screenwriter/producer. In 2003 he directed a 15 minute short film tiled "Double Blades" in Los Angeles which got the attention of John Woo and Zhang Jiazhen. John Woo produced his first film, "Blood Brothers". The film was shot entirely in Shanghai…
David Verbeek
David Verbeek is a Dutch director. He has studied film, photography and philosophy at the New School University in New York, and film directing at the Netherlands Film Academy, where he graduated in 2005. During his studies he completed his first feature, Beat (2004), which was selected for IFFR. After…
Zhu Shi Lin
Zhu Shi Lin, also romanized as Chu Shek Lin, was a Chinese film director, born in Taicang, Jiangsu, China. Zhu began his career in the thriving film industry of Shanghai, directing actresses like Ruan Lingyu with the Lianhua Film Company. After the war, Zhu moved to Hong Kong, where he founded the Longma…
Liang Ming
Born in Yichun, northeast China's Heilongjiang province. Enrolled at the Communication University of China in 2002, majoring in performance arts in the Department of Director Performance. Cast in the movie, "Spring Fever", directed by Lou Ye (included in the Main Competition section, at the 62nd Cannes…
Noguchi Hisamitsu
Noguchi Hisamitsu was a Japanese film, jazz, and musical critic born in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture. He was also a painter and graphic designer. He is said to have painted over 1000 movie posters in his lifetime. In 1933, he graduated from the Design Department of the Crafts Department of Tokyo…
Eliana Pavlova
Eliana Pavlova is a Japanese ballerina from Russia, born in Tbilisi in the Caucasus. She was naturalized in 1937 and her Japanese name is Kirishima Eriko. She taught ballet in Yokohama and later in Kamakura, and is known as the first person to take ballet root in Japan, which lead to being called the…
Lu Xun
Lu Xun was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese, he was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, poet, and designer. In…
Kim Eung Su
Born in 1966, Kim Eung Su graduated from Seoul National University majoring in psychology and studied film at Moscow National Film University. His first feature film, Time Lasts, was set in Russia and concerned a group of Korean student activists gathered to uncover a traitor among them. It premiered…
Sun Hao Hui
Sun Hao Hui, a native of Shaanxi Province, is a scholar of Chinese history and law at the Northwest University. He is mainly known as the author of "The Qin Empire", an award-winning series that romanticizes the rise of the Qin state in the Warring States period and the founding of the Qin Dynasty,…
Lin Geng Ming
Lin Gengming played cello since the third year of elementary school. His older brother studied violin and he wanted to choose a bigger musical instrument, the cello. Lin Gengming, singer and member of the Oriental Symphony Orchestra, graduated from Wuhan Conservatory of Music. He has performed with…
