Wang Xiaoshuai
Wang Xiaoshuai (Chinese王小帅/王小帅, Pinyin Wáng xiaoshuai; May 22nd, 1966 in Shanghai) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. He is often associated with the " sixth generation " of Chinese filmmakers.
Biography
Wang was born in Shanghai, but spent his childhood and youth, until he was thirteen years old, in Guiyang. During his time in Guiyang, he began to develop an interest in painting, which he was to deepen, as in 1981, at age 15, in Beijing attended a specialized art high school. After graduating from this school in 1985, he turned away from the painting and studied instead directing at the Beijing Film Academy.
After his graduation in 1988, Wang was for two years as an assistant director for Fujiang film studio operates. He realized an independent feature film, which he made with two friends in the lead roles and with a low budget in Beijing, days of winter, spring days (1993). While the film is about two young artists whose marriage slowly goes to pieces, was placed in the People's Republic of China on the blacklist, he ran in multiple international film festivals and was awarded at the International Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1995 with the grand prize.
The second feature film followed under the pseudonym Wu Ming with the 1994 also rotated independently from the state, but only in 1997 premiered a freezing Beijing avant-garde artists who are different ideas and commits suicide in the past. His first film was Biandan state, Guniang ( 1998) on two rural farmers who want to try their luck in the city; This film won him the FIPRESCI Prize at the International Film Festival a Shanghai.
After Meng huan tian yuan ( 1999) was released in 2001 with Beijing Bicycle his hitherto most successful work. The film, which includes borrowings from Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief, is about a 17 -year-old from the countryside who moves to Beijing, where he be vital for him bike is stolen by a peer. At the Berlinale 2001, this film was awarded the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
It was followed by two films that were shown at the International Film Festival in Cannes: di In It (2003) describes Wang a young man who emigrated illegally to the United States and then return to China. Shanghai Dreams (2005) won the Jury Prize at Cannes.
In competition at the 2008 Berlinale Zuo you have been shown; the screenplay for this film brought Wang a Silver Bear. It's about divorced parents who find out that their daughter suffers from leukemia. With his latest film, Rizhao chongqing he will be represented by Cannes in 2010 in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.