Jia Zhangke

essential information

Character experience

Early experience

Jia Zhangke has shown his literary talent since he was a child. In middle school, he published a novel in Shanxi literature. When he was in high school, he founded a poetry society. Even if he didn't go to university, Shanxi Writers Association was willing to take him as a member. When he was admitted to college, his mathematics was too poor. His parents sent him to Taiyuan to attend an art class of Shanxi University to prepare for the entrance examination to art colleges. At that time, Jia Zhangke often went to a "Highway Bureau cinema" near the school to watch movies.

In 1991, Jia Zhangke began to take the examination of Beijing Film Academy. In 1993, he was admitted to the literature department of Beijing Film Academy. At school, in order to realize his childhood dream of directing, he organized a "youth film experimental group" to start film practice.

Acting experience

In the winter of 1994, Jia Zhangke, a sophomore at Beijing Film Academy, was preparing to make the feature film "Hill home", which won the best feature film award in the short film competition unit of Hong Kong International Film Exhibition.

On February 18, 1998, Xiaowu, a self-made and self directed feature film, won the Asian film promotion alliance award and the Wolfgang shidodd award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival; in September, it won the sina tide award at the 3rd Busan International Film Festival for its directed feature film Xiaowu.

On September 4, 2000, the self-made and self directed feature film platform was released in China. It was shortlisted in the main competition unit of the 57th Venice International Film Festival and won the award of the Asian film promotion alliance of the 57th Venice International Film Festival.

On May 23, 2002, Ren Xiaoyao, a self-made and self directed feature film, premiered at the 55th Cannes International Film Festival and entered the main competition unit of the 55th Cannes International Film Festival.

On November 28, 2003, the documentary film "public places" was released in France.

In 2004, he served as the chairman of the jury of the 22nd Turin International Film Festival; in April, he released the feature film "the world", which was edited and directed by himself; the film was shortlisted in the main competition unit of the 61st Venice International Film Festival.

In March 2005, he was the judge of the 27th French real film festival; in the same year, he was the judge of Yamagata International Film Festival in Japan.

In 2006, the documentary "East" won the "2006 open award" and documentary award in the horizon unit of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival; in April, he was the producer of the feature film "Lai boy"; on April 20, he took part in the comedy "fight to the end"; in September, the feature film "Three Gorges man" won the 6th prize Three golden lion awards at Venice International Film Festival.

In March 2007, he won the best director award of the 1st Asian Film Awards for his drama "Three Gorges good man"; then he took part in the documentary "Xiao Jia goes home"; in the same year, he won the title of "global youth leader" of Davos Economic Forum; in May, he served as the chairman of the judging panel of short films and film cornerstone units of the 60th Cannes International Film Festival; in June, he won the 2nd Asian Film Award for his film "Three Gorges good man" He won the best director award of the 28th Durban International Film Festival; on June 23, his short story film "our decade" was released in Taiwan, China; in July, he was a member of the jury of the main competition unit of the 60th logano International Film Festival; in August, his documentary "useless" won the best documentary award of the horizon unit of the 64th Venice International Film Festival.

In March 2008, he won the outstanding artistic achievement award of the 10th duvier Asian Film Festival; in May, Jia Zhangke was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 61st Cannes International Film Festival with "24 cities"; in September, his short love film "love on the river" was shortlisted for the master exhibition unit of the 55th Venice International Film Festival; on October 23, he and his public welfare short film "black breakfast"; in the same year, he was awarded by the British Academy of Arts China's guardian has been selected as one of the top ten environmental protection figures in the world.

In March 2009, he published his memoir Jia Xiang I: Jia Zhangke's movie notes 1996-2008; in April, he published his book interview with Chinese workers - stories about collective memory; and on June 11, he was the producer of the thriller "Dangkou".

In May 2010, the documentary "Legend of the sea" was shortlisted as a concern unit of the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival, becoming the first Chinese documentary to be shortlisted in this unit; in the same year, he founded the "add wings program" to boost the growth of new directors, and acted as producer and main investor; in August, he won the lifelong achievement award of the 63rd logano International Film Festival; in September, he directed the plot short film "Love on the river" was released in Italy; on November 16, Jia Zhangke's "Yulu project" was officially launched in Beijing. As the producer, he helped six cutting-edge directors to shoot 12 documentaries.

In September 2011, he supervised and produced the plot short film "association of love"; in October, his documentary "Legend of the sea" won the best documentary nomination of the 28th China Golden Rooster Film Award; in the same year, he shot the documentary film "language road"; in November, he served as chairman of the jury of horizon unit of the 68th Venice International Film Festival; on November 4, he served as producer and producer of "Hello! Mr. tree is on.

On May 5, 2012, he supervised and produced the drama "memory looks at me" directed by song Fang.

On May 18, 2013, he won the best screenplay award of the 66th Cannes International Film Festival for his self-directed feature film "destiny"; on July 31, he and Kim Kidd jointly shot the short film "Venice 70th anniversary: restart the future" in honor of the 70th Venice International Film Festival.

In May 2014, he served as a member of the jury of the 67th Cannes International Film Festival's main competition unit; in July, he played Sumi's third uncle in Han Han's drama "no time to see you later"; in the same month, he won the lifetime achievement award of the 10th Armenian Golden Apricot International Film Festival; on August 29, he served as the producer of the drama "forget to understand you"; in the same month, he won the lifetime achievement award of the Italian new realism Film Festival On September 6, he released the film manuscript "destiny"; in October, he won the lifelong achievement award of the 38th St. Paul International Film Festival.

On February 7, 2015, he was the producer of the feature film castle; in the same year, he directed the short film man in the haze; on May 20, he was shortlisted in the main competition unit of the 68th Cannes International Film Festival with "old man of mountains and rivers"; in November, the film "old man of mountains and rivers" won the best original script award of the 52nd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award.

On January 1, 2016, he played the Macao uncle in the comedy "everything is OK" directed by Zhang Meng; on February 17, he acted as the producer of the feature film "lush foliage"; in March, he won the best screenwriter award of the 10th Asian Film Awards for his film "old friends of mountains and rivers"; in July, his short drama "Ying Sheng" was shortlisted for the 69th Locarno International Film Festival; in September, he served as the 64th St. Sebastian Member of the jury of the main competition unit of Tian International Film Festival; won the outstanding artistic achievement award of the 18th Bombay International Film Festival on October 20; won the outstanding artistic achievement award of the 38th Cairo International Film Festival on November 15.

In January 2017, he served as the chairman of the jury of the 11th Asian Film Awards; on October 19, he co directed the drama "where is the time" with Walter Cyrus.

On January 5, 2018, he published his memoir Jia Xiang II: notes of Jia Zhangke's films 2008-2016; in May, his self-made and self directed crime love film "the sons and daughters of the lake" was shortlisted in the main competition unit of the 71st Cannes International Film Festival; on May 30, he won the 29th Fukuoka Asian Culture Award in Japan, becoming the seventh Chinese to win the award; in August, he was invited to be the judge of the 71st logano International Film Festival On October 20, he won the silver Hugo Award for best director of the 54th Chicago International Film Festival for his film "people of the lake"; on November 9, he won the best director award of the 25th Minsk International Film Festival for his film "people of the lake".

In January 2019, he directed the advertising short film "a bucket"; on January 25, he supervised the production of the feature film "floating city on the sea"; on March 17, he won the best screenwriter award of the 13th Asian Film Awards for his self-made and self directed feature film "the people of the Lake"; in April, he served as the judge of the 2nd baopo Republic literature award; on April 26, he won the 10th China Film Directors Association for his film "the people of the lake" Director of the year award; in the same year, he made the documentary literature of a village; on October 11, the trailer of the pilot version of the film "more than endlessly" supervised by Jia Zhangke and starred by Bai Ke was exposed; on November 3, the feature film "see Nara again" supervised by Naomi Kawase and Jia Zhangke and written and directed by Pengfei was launched in Nara, Japan; in December, he played in the film "no romance" directed by Cheng er, Play the leading role.

On April 21, 2020, Jia Zhangke's short film "visit" created with the background of "epidemic situation" was published on the website of the New York Times, which reflected people's daily life in the epidemic situation with a visit; in September, he served as the "ambassador" of the 45th Toronto International Film Festival.

On August 14, 2020, we learned from the film "swim all the way to the sea and turn blue" that the new work "swim all the way to the sea and turn blue" directed by Chinese director Jia Zhangke has been shortlisted in the "main screening" unit of the 58th New York Film Festival, and his film "calm" has also been shortlisted. On October 28, the supervised film "more than ever" will be released in Japan in 2021. In November, the Sino Japanese co production "see Nara again" was shown at the 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival, supervised by Jia Zhangke and Naomi Kawase, and written and directed by young director Pengfei.

Business experience

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