Zhang Yuan

Zhang Yuan

Zhang Yuan, born in October 1963 in Donghai County, Jiangsu Province, graduated from Beijing Film Academy, is a male director in mainland China.

After graduation in 1989, I raised money to make my first film, mother. In 1992, he completed China's first rock and roll film "Beijing bastard". In 1994, he was selected by time magazine as one of the "100 world youth leaders in the 21st century". In 1995, his documentary "Plaza" won the "Jury Award" of the Hawaii International Film Festival. In 1997, he won the best director award of Argentina International Film Festival for his film "East Palace and West Palace". In 1998, he won the "lifting order" of the State Administration of radio, film and television, and made the film "going home for the Chinese New Year", which won the best director award of the 56th Venice International Film Festival. In 1999, the Harvard film archive and the Department of film and environmental studies presented Zhang Yuan with the "film art Contribution Award" and held the "Harvard film exhibition to pay tribute to Zhang Yuan". In 2000, UNESCO awarded Zhang Yuan the "Peace Culture Award" in Paris. In 2001, he was selected by China Youth magazine as one of the 100 young people who will influence the next century. He won the Vatican Robert Bresson prize in 2006.

In 2008, Zhang Yuan was arrested on the spot for taking drugs. On June 13, 2014, he was detained by Beijing police again for taking drugs.

Early experience

Born in Donghai County, Jiangsu Province in 1963, his ancestral home is Nanjing. He studied painting when he was young. He was admitted to the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy in 1985. after graduating from Beijing Film Academy in 1989, he didn't work in a film studio.

Acting experience

In 1990, she independently completed the film "mother", which is the first independent film in China. It became the first work of this year's Film Academy graduates and was banned as soon as the film was finished. in 1991, his film "mother" won the jury award and the public award at the three continents Film Festival in Nantes, France. In the same year, Cui Jian's music video "let me sprinkle some on the snow" won the best Asian Music Video Award of the American music video annual award. In 1992, he directed the second independent production film "Beijing bastard", which reflects the mental state of contemporary Chinese youth. It is considered to be the first rock and roll film in China, and it has also been banned. He has also been banned from film work. MTV of Ai Jing's song "my 1997" was completed in May. In the same year, the film "mother" won the European film critic's prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival. In 1993, the film "Beijing bastard" won the special award of the jury of the International Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland. In the same year, Cui Jian's music video "a piece of red cloth" won the Golden Gate special award at the San Francisco Film Festival. After that, I shot MTV for Chen Jin's song of the same name "red head rope" on his first album. In 1994, he and director Duan Jinchuan jointly completed the documentary "square" and Cui Jian's mtv "flying". In January 1995, Zhang Yuan completed Luo Qi's mtv "do as you please". In 1996, Zhang Yuan and the Brussels Art Festival jointly produced the first drama, East Palace and West Palace, and produced the film of the same name. The drama "the East Palace and the West Palace" participated in the performances of the Brussels Art Festival in Belgium, the Autumn Art Festival in Paris in France and the Sao Paulo Art Festival in Brazil. The film "the East Palace and the West Palace" won the award of best director and best screenwriter at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina in 1996. In 1997, the gay theme film "East Palace and West Palace" was officially selected as the unit of "one kind of gaze" in Cannes Film Festival. At the end of February 1998, the Ministry of radio, film and television of China issued an order to lift the ban, restoring Zhang Yuan's qualification to participate in domestic film and television production. Later, he worked with Xi'an Film Studio to produce the feature film "going home for the new year", which won the best director award of the 56th Venice Film Festival. In the same year, he completed the documentary "nail household", which won the first prize of Japan Broadcasting Foundation. In 1999, Zhang Yuan completed the documentary film Crazy English, which took part in the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in October. She was invited to work with 10 international directors on the short film "Danish Girl" to commemorate the centenary of the film. In 2000, Zhang Yuan completed the digital film Miss Venus. At the invitation of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the image ambassador of the Special Olympics, and China Disabled Persons' Federation, Zhang Yuan made the documentary Schwarzenegger's trip to China. In 2001, Zhang Yuan completed the documentary "adoption" and the music TV film "Hainan, Hainan". In the spring of 2002, Zhang Yuan was invited to shoot the global TV advertisement of Benetton. In the same year, the film "I love you", which was adapted from Wang Shuo's novel "enjoy and die", was officially participated in Tokyo International Film Festival in Japan and the 19th Sundance Film Festival in the United States. The film won 16 million box office, breaking the box office record of domestic films that year. In the same year, the Peking Opera film "Jiangjie" was shot and performed in Cologne Modern Art Festival. Cooperate with Cui Jian again to complete mtv "countryside encircles city". In 2003, he directed the film "green tea" for domestic public performance. The film was invited to participate in the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Netherlands and the Sixth Asian Film Festival held in duville, France. At the same time, the production of 20 episodes of TV series "flash" was completed. During the Far East Film Festival held in Udine, Italy from April 23 to 30, 2004, Zhang Yuan's three films "green tea", "I love you" and "sister Jiang" were invited to the exhibition. The Organizing Committee organized a special seminar on Zhang Yuan's works during the screening. In 2005, he directed the film "looks beautiful" adapted from Wang Shuo's novel of the same name. In the same year, Zhang Yuan supervised the production of the historical documentary of Peking Opera, the spring and autumn of pink ink. In 2007, he directed the film dada, which was shortlisted for the 17th Beijing University Students Film Festival. In 2012, Zhang Yuan's Micro film "relationship in bed" achieved a total of more than 150 million shows, and then directed a micro film "love encounter" focusing on the current relationship between men and women. on November 8, 2013, the love film "seed" directed by Yi was released, and the film was shortlisted for the film exhibition of Busan Film Festival. in April 2014, Zhang Yuan directed the first public welfare micro film "the first love" reflecting maternal love. In August, Zhang Yuan and South Korean director Pei Changhao served as mentors of "2014 China South Korea future imaging talent training course".

Personal life

Zhang Yuan and his wife Ning Dai have been in love for 20 years. They have a daughter, Ning Yuanyuan, who played the leading role in "looking beautiful". Soon after "look beautiful" was finished, they officially separated, while their daughters took turns to take care of and raise them regularly. Zhang Yuan's girlfriend is Li Xinyun, who plays a kindergarten teacher in the movie "looks beautiful". Li Xinyun plays the heroine dada in Zhang Yuan's 2008 movie "dada", who is more than 20 years younger than Zhang Yuan.

Main works

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Directing works

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Published works

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Zhang Yuan's maiden work "mother" shows concern for the marginalized and vulnerable groups in society. The style of realism and concern for personal fate has become the pioneering work of the sixth generation of Chinese film directors. He has always been unique in his artistic style of recording Realism (people's online review). As one of the outstanding directors of the "sixth generation", Zhang Yuan has an independent ability to observe the society. His observation of the society has his own unique perspective, which is placed in the youth culture and the marginal groups of society that are not paid attention to by the public, and with the challenge and criticism to the mainstream values, he expresses and expresses the life experience of those young people in the social evolution Da, trying to discover, excavate and present the spiritual reality of the part covered by ideology. In Zhang Yuan's works, there has always been a new generation of thinking, "Mom", "Beijing hybrid" are witnesses (China photography magazine review).

Character controversy

Drug abuse

In 2008, Zhang Yuan was detained for 10 days for gathering people to take drugs. In June 2014, Zhang Yuan was arrested again for taking drugs. As there is no plot of drug possession, he may be released at the end of June. on June 26, 2014, Zhang Yuan was interviewed by CCTV, and in the interview, he talked about why he took drugs and the great harm that drug abuse brought to him.

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