Wuershan

Wuershan

Wuershan, born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia on June 10, 1972, is a director in mainland China. He studied in the oil painting department of the Central Academy of fine arts and the director department of Beijing Film Academy.

In 2004, he won the international film critic award of Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea for his independent film soap opera. In 2011, he won the 48th Golden Horse Award for best new director for directing the avant-garde martial arts comedy "Dao Jian Xiao". In 2012, he directed the Oriental magic love film "painted skin II" with a box office of more than 700 million yuan and won the best viewing effect award of the 20th Beijing University Students Film Festival. In 2014, he directed the suspense and adventure movie "the secret of seeking the dragon with the ghost blowing the lamp", which was released on December 18, 2015. In 2016, he won the best director award of the 33rd popular film Hundred Flowers Award for his film "dragon hunt".

Early experience

Wuershan was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. At the age of 4, he moved to Beijing with his parents. He grew up in the military compound and learned to draw since childhood. He began to study in the middle school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1988.

In 1992, after graduation, he entered the oil painting department of the Central Academy of fine arts. Because of his disagreement with the teacher's idea, he left school as a sophomore and entered the director department of Beijing Film Academy in 1994.

In 1998, after graduating from Beijing Film Academy, he successfully began to work as an advertising director, and soon came to the fore and won many awards.

In 2000, he created his own studio "523 studio". He has completed installation, short film, performance art and other pure art works with a group of friends. He has also participated in many art festivals and won awards.

Acting experience

In 2004, as a screenwriter, director and producer, wuershan shot 90 minutes of independent film "soap opera", which won the "international film critic Award" of Busan International Film Festival in South Korea and the best director award of Geneva International Film Festival in Switzerland.

In 2009, he was selected as the first new director of the "Asian star attraction project"; on September 24, the first commercial film "Dao Jian Xiao", directed by wuershan, was launched, which is a pioneer martial arts comedy film. The executive producer of the film is Hollywood director Doug Riemann. In 2011, the film won the best new director award at the 48th Golden Horse Award for Taiwan film, and was nominated for best adapted screenplay together with Zhang Jiajia, Tang Que and Ma Luoshan. In 2012, it also nominated the best new director at the 12th Chinese Film Media Award.

On June 28, 2012, the Oriental magic love film "painted skin 2" directed by wuershan was released, and finally won 726 million box office in mainland China, breaking 12 box office records of Chinese movies. In 2013, the film won the best viewing effect award of the 20th Beijing University Film Festival and the 2013 American Golden Trailer award.

In August 2014, wuershan directed the fantasy and adventure movie "the secret to the dragon" starring Chen Kun, Huang Bo and Shu Qi. The production cost of the movie is about 250 million yuan. As of January 2016, it has set a number of Chinese film box office records, ranking second in the history of Chinese film.

In 2016, he won the best director award of the 33rd popular film Hundred Flowers Award for his film "dragon hunt".

"Fengshen Trilogy" directed by wuershan is the first film in the history of Chinese film to adopt the mode of three consecutive films. The three films will be released successively in 2020, 2021 and 2022. At present, the first film has not been officially released.

Main works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Art exhibition works

Award winning record

Character evaluation

At the same time of film creation, wuershan is also a contemporary artist. His images, installations, performance and other contemporary art works are displayed in art festivals, biennales and art museums around the world (Beijing News Review).

Wuershan has a pragmatic spirit rarely seen in cultural people. He describes himself as "calm" for his passion for the goal, accurate judgment of the direction, neither humble nor overbearing to the reality, and positive attack to the problem. This kind of personality charm has achieved his film spirit and ideal (Sohu Entertainment, Tencent Entertainment review).

Chinese PinYin : Wu Er Shan