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From November 2-13, the Harvard Film Archive is screening four films by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yuan, one of the leaders of the freshest talents of what critics term the "6th Generation Directors." The series will include Seventeen Years, for which he won the award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. Zhang will be in attendance at a special screening of Seventeen Years Friday at 8:00 p.m. Zhang would like extend his invitations to all interested students...
...work mostly outside of the Chinese state-run film studios. As an independent filmmaker, what are your impressions of the American film industry...
...feel that all independent filmmakers worldwide face the same problems, or find themselves in the same situations. With regard to Chinese filmmakers like myself, there are two main problems: money, a problem shared by all filmmakers, but also censorship, which I face more heavily in China. The American independent film industry faces the same funding issues, but instead of censorship, they have to deal more with the market. Hollywood has a tendency to take over the world, in terms of market share. There are numerous Hollywood movies showing in China, many in theaters through official channels, other via pirated...
...guess the most influential film has been Beijing Bastard, the first Chinese rock and roll film. Many young people saw it, in spite of the fact that it was never officially released in China, because of its release in Hong Kong and Japan. Of the seven movies that I have made up to this point, only my first film Mama was officially released in China. My two latest movies, Crazy English and Seventeen Years, are to be released very soon in China. But my other movies have never received any chance for release, essentially they were banned. It's truly...
...would like to quote Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Kundera was from a socialist country like I am. It's difficult to make a good film without pressure, or perhaps that it's likely that pressure tends to lead to the production of more interesting work...