Yang yaya

Yang yaya

Yang Yaya, born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province in 1956, graduated from the performance class of Central Academy of drama, male director in mainland China.

Yang won the best director award for the 15th Asian Film "golden face" in 1995. In 2001, Yang Yaya directed his first TV play "Empty Mirror", which won the excellent work award of the 20th Golden Eagle Award of China TV. In 2004, he won the excellent director award of the 9th China Film Huabiao award and the best director award of the 22nd China Film Golden Rooster Award.

In 2004, Yang Yaya's emotional ethics drama romance was broadcast on CCTV. As a result, Yang Yaya won the best director award of the 22nd China TV Golden Eagle Award and the outstanding director award of the 24th China TV series flying sky award. On May 4, the World Artists Association of the United States presented Yang yaya with the "outstanding contribution award". In 2005, the film "loach is also a fish" directed by migrant workers won the best artistic contribution award of the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival. In 2012, director of the film "the longest hug" in Montreal Film Festival won the Creative Award. In 2015, with the family emotional drama "Hey, old man! 》He won the best director award of the 2nd China US International TV Festival. In December, he won the best director award of the 7th new rural TV art festival for his "straw hat policeman". In February 2017, he won the 11th National TV production industry top ten TV drama director award.

Early experience

Yang Yaya was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province in 1956. He worked as a physical education teacher in the May 7th primary school in the third grade of junior high school. He also applied for medical secondary school and worked as a surgeon for four years.

In 1980, he was favored by the recruiters of Xi'an Film Studio. He left Harbin to go to Xi'an Film Studio. Later, he entered the Central Academy of drama to study acting. Later, he returned to Xi'an Film Studio and worked as deputy director and co director of Huang Jianxin's several films (including back to back, face to face).

Acting experience

In 1995, he won the best director award of the 15th China Golden Rooster Award for his comedy "back to back face to face" directed by Huang Jianxin, which is Yang Yaya's first film.

On November 8, 1997, the comedy film ambush, CO directed by Huang Jianxin, was released. The film won the special award of the 17th China Golden Rooster Award and was nominated for the Golden Bear award of the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1999, he and Huang Jianxin co directed the comedy "nothing to steal music", which won the best feature film award of the 2000 Far East International Film Festival in Italy.

In January 2001, Yang Yaya directed the TV play "Empty Mirror" for the first time, which was adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Wan Fang. The play won the excellent work award of the 20th China Golden Eagle Award for TV series. In June, the TV film "big plays and small plays" directed by Yang Yaya won the first prize of the first China Lily Award for TV films.

In 2002, Yang Yaya's inspirational film "beautiful big feet", directed by Ni Ping and Yuan Quan, was named the best film of the 22nd Golden Rooster Award for Chinese film. The film focuses on some problems in rural education in Western China, including the shortage of educational funds, the low status of female teachers and the breeding of poverty culture. Yang Yaya also won the excellent director award of the 9th China Film Huabiao award and the best director award of the 22nd China Golden Rooster Award.

On January 27, 2004, Yang Yaya's emotional and ethical drama romance, directed by Peng Yu and starred by Ni Ping, was broadcast on CCTV. It tells the story of a family of three sisters seeking romantic love in their ordinary life. When they divorced one after another for various reasons, the three sisters finally realized the meaning of romance at their mother's wedding. For this reason, Yang Yaya won the best director award of the 22nd China TV Golden Eagle Award and the outstanding director award of the 24th China TV series flying sky award. On May 4, the World Artists Association of the United States presented Yang Yaya with the "outstanding contribution award".

In 2005, his fourth film "loach is also a fish" showed the love and dignity of Chinese migrant workers, and was shortlisted for the golden Baron award, the main competition unit of the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival, and finally won the best artistic contribution award of the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival.

In 2007, director of love ethics drama "bathing girl" tells a tortuous, bizarre story spanning 20 years.

On February 23, 2009, the film "life without language" was released. The film was adapted from the novella of the same name by Dongxi. The protagonists of the film are three disabled people, one deaf, one blind and one mute. They form a "invisible, speechless and inaudible" family and live a life without language. The TV Series Butterfly directed in the same year was broadcast simultaneously on mainstream TV stations in China and Canada.

In 2010, he directed the film big sun, which commemorates the third anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake. With this film, he was nominated for the best director award of the 11th China Changchun Film Festival.

In 2012, the film "the longest hug" co directed by Yang Bo and his son won the Creative Award at the Montreal Film Festival.

In April 2014, directed the family emotional drama "Hey, old man! 》It was started in Huairou, Beijing, and it was finished at the end of June. The play was broadcast on Beijing and Oriental satellite TV on March 26, 2015. It was nominated for the best director award of the Magnolia Award of the 21st Shanghai TV Festival and won the best director award of the 2nd China US International TV Festival.

On May 22, 2015, the film "lactating woman" was released, adapted from the short story of the same name that the writer Bi Feiyu won the first Lu Xun Literature Award; in December, the film "straw hat police" won the best director award of the 7th new rural TV Art Festival - Taurus award.

In 2016, directed the family emotional drama "Hey, kid! 》The play focuses on the topic of giving birth to children; in October, the magic film "the legend of Feng Mo Lu" directed by the director was killed in Hebi.

In February 2017, he won the award of the 11th National TV production industry's top ten TV drama directors; in May, the TV drama farewell to Las Vegas directed by Yang Yaya was finished, which focused on the Chinese "sea drifters" and truly restored the joys, sorrows and sorrows of a group of young people pursuing their dreams in Las Vegas; in October, the director's emotional drama "half life fate" held a launching ceremony in Shanghai.

In September 2020, the Realistic TV series jingshanhai, directed by Yang Yaya and starred by Wang Likun and Zhang Guoqiang, will be launched in Rizhao, Shandong Province.

Personal life

Yang Yaya and his ex-wife Tang shuangwen were both actors in the western film studio in the early 1980s. They fell in love and married, giving birth to their son Yang Bo. Yang Bo has been a deputy director for many times in Yang Yaya's films and TV series, such as "nine phoenixes at home" and "loach is also a fish".

In 2005, Yang Yaya married Ni Ping, an actress and host she had worked with for many times, and finished her marriage in a low profile.

Main works

Director's work

Take part in TV series

Award winning record

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Character evaluation

Yang Yaya is a successful director in both TV and film fields. Yang Yaya can be regarded as a director with a wide range of hobbies. In addition to movies and TV plays, he is also a good hand in creating TV movies. His films all focus on the "poverty and happiness" of small people and show the beauty and romance of ordinary life. It is praised as "civilian director" by Chinese audience (Netease Entertainment, Xinhua Online Review).

The sun sisters in Yang Ya Ya's TV play "Empty Mirror" and the three sisters in "the most romantic thing", the emotional externalization of the characters is not very fierce, the conflicts of the characters are quite calm, and the uneasiness of the characters is rarely expressed in hysterical state, which has won the unanimous praise of the critics and the audience. Among them, "nine phoenixes at home" has a new exploration in the narrative strategy (Jinghua online review).

Yang Yaya is a man with social conscience and artistic pursuit. His works pay attention to morality and people's livelihood, and the living conditions of small people. He can always see sunshine in suffering. Writing love in life is the consistent principle of his works.

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