Yao Xiaofeng

Yao Xiaofeng

Yao Xiaofeng, born in 1969, graduated from the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy. He is a male director in mainland China, a national first-class director, Professor, and deputy director of the youth studio of Beijing Film Academy.

In 1991, Yao Xiaofeng stayed in school to teach after graduation. In 1997, Wang Rui directed the love story "divorce, don't come to me again", which was nominated for the best Photography Award of the 17th China Golden Rooster film award. In 2000, he entered the youth studio of Beijing Film Academy. In 2005, he directed his first love drama deep night. In 2010, he directed the historical drama "Ye Luo Chang'an", which won the excellent TV Production Award of the 12th China Japan South Korea TV producers forum. In 2011, directed the family drama "Tangshan earthquake". In 2013, he won the best director award nomination of the 20th Shanghai TV Festival - Magnolia Award for his family comedy "big man". In 2015, he directed urban family drama "tiger mom, cat dad", and won the 19th Huading Award for best director of top 100 TV series. In 2016, he directed the urban emotional drama little husband. In 2018, he directed the urban love drama "Mr. love", which won the title of the best rating drama in 2018. In 2019, he directed the urban family drama take dad to study abroad. In 2020, he will direct the urban emotional drama "warm holiday".

Acting experience

In 1991, Yao Xiaofeng stayed in school to teach after graduation. In 1997, Wang Rui directed the love story "divorce, don't come to me again", which was nominated for the best Photography Award of the 17th China Golden Rooster film award.

In 2000, he entered the youth studio of Beijing Film Academy. In 2003, he returned to film and television creation. In 2005, he directed his first love drama, deep night, starring Tao Hong, he Bing and Feng Shaofeng. In 2006, he directed the family drama "justice" co starred by Yang Kun and Zhang Qiuge.

In 2007, he directed the love drama "women's flower", CO starring Feng Shaofeng, Liu Tao and Qin Hailu, with the background of the Republic of China. In 2008, directed by Wang Zhiwen, Mei Ting, Tong Dawei co starring love drama "how far is happiness.".

In 2010, he directed the family drama half way brothers starring Zhang Fengyi, Li Qiang and Ke LAN. In the same year, he directed the historical drama "Ye Luo Chang'an", which was adapted from the novel of the same name by Wu Wenli, a writer in Xi'an. The drama was co starred by Chen Xiaoyi, Liu Tao, Ni Dahong, etc., and won the outstanding TV drama production award of the 12th China Japan South Korea TV producers forum.

In 2011, Yao Xiaofeng directed the family drama "Tangshan earthquake", CO starring Chen Xiaoyi, Zhang Guoli and Zhang Hanyu.

In 2012, Yao Xiaofeng directed the historical drama "never bow" co starred by Zhang Hanyu, Ren Zhong and Xie Yuan. In the same year, he directed the love drama "if life deceives you" set in the 1980s, CO starred by Lu Yi, Qin Hailu, Geng Le, etc., which revealed the complexity of life and the essence of human nature, and won the best TV drama Gold Award in the 20th Shanghai TV Festival.

Ran Xiaoding, director of the 10th National TV Drama Festival, won the award of "best TV producer of China" and "best TV producer of China" in 2013 Nominated for the director award.

In 2015, he directed the urban family drama "tiger mother, cat father" co starred by Zhao Wei and Tong Dawei, which was shortlisted in seven awards of the Magnolia Award of Shanghai TV Festival, becoming the only TV drama that was nominated for the best director award of the 22nd Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award and the best director of the 19th Huading award.

In 2016, Yao Xiaofeng directed the sister part of "big man" again, the urban emotional drama "little man", starring Yu Feihong, Yang Fan, Zhang Meng, etc.

In 2018, he directed the urban love drama "Mr. love", and won the number one rating in 2018.

In 2019, he directed the TV series "take dad to study abroad".

In 2020, he directed the TV series "warm holiday", which tells three warm and healing romantic stories of three groups of residents who come to "true love resort" during the Spring Festival.

Main works

Directing works

Photographic works

social activities

On November 20, 2014, he was invited to be the judge of 2014 Academy Award short film competition of China Golden Rooster Baihua Film Festival.

On August 15, 2015, he was invited to serve as the judge of 2015 International Emmy semifinals in China.

On December 23, 2015, he attended the 30th China TV series flying award ceremony as a guest.

Judges of the White Magnolia Award of the 23rd Shanghai International Film and Television Festival in 2017

In 2018, he was the judge of the best TV drama semi-final of the 46th International Emmy Awards.

Award winning record

Character evaluation

From "deep night" to "woman flower" to "if life deceives you", every work directed by Yao Xiaofeng is delicate and profound, and has a good reputation on the screen. And "big man" is to broaden the new model of family drama (Sina entertainment review).

"Ye Luo Chang'an" fully shows the director Yao Xiaofeng's unique feeling of history and sincere experience of life. It combines the reversal of history with the ups and downs of life. It makes us appreciate the desolation of history and feel the soul stirring of the characters' fate (Sohu Entertainment review).

Director Yao, who is a photographer, is very delicate in making emotional dramas. He is especially good at capturing the actor's performance and feelings beyond his lines (Yu Feihong comments). Yao Xiaofeng's delicacy is not only reflected in his creation, but also in his insight into life. It is this delicacy that makes his works full of vitality. From the reflection of the post-60s and Post-70s, to the confusion of the post-80s, and then to the selflessness of the post-90s, Yao Xiaofeng tried to restore the world with his own lens, bringing more profound feelings and thinking to the audience in front of the screen (public online review).

"Xiong Yin, general manager of the national campus cinema line of China education film, believes that" literary and artistic workers are born with a mission. No matter the director, actor or producer of "take dad to study abroad", they are imperceptibly educating and cultivating a generation of people. " Zhang Dexiang, vice chairman of the Chinese Literary Critics Association and former editor in chief of contemporary TV, describes the highlights of TV dramas with "strong sense of reality, strong plot and strong personality", and says: "the experience of taking dad to study abroad is of great significance for us to think about education and how to be a father." Yi Kai, Deputy Secretary General of China Television Arts Commission, compared the play with Yao's previous work "tiger mother, cat father", saying that he had deep feelings when watching the play and realized that intergenerational communication between parents and children is very important. Besides accompanying children, parents need to become better. " (china.com.cn)

"Whether it's tiger mom, cat dad, Mr. love, big man or little man, looking back at Yao Xiaofeng's works, his concern and thinking about real life are his consistent persistence in creation. He believes that works closely related to his own life and integrated with his own feelings and experiences can be done well. With the rapid development of modern society and the keen observation of things around him, he constantly finds out the highlights of life, and seriously excavates "this familiar thing", so as to create nutritious and content works (Xinhua Online Review)

The TV play "take dad to study abroad" makes a detailed discussion and presentation of "studying abroad", which provides observation samples for families studying abroad. Different from the floating show of dragonfly skimming water, the play focuses on the forefront of life in the era, namely the upsurge of studying abroad at a younger age, including accompanying students, children's education and growth, etc. Yao Xiaofeng, director of the play, said: "as a father, I am also the protagonist in the story of studying abroad. It is our original intention to strip away the beautiful shell of studying abroad and expose the essence of real life. "

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