Xie Fei (Chinese: 谢飞; pinyin: Xiè Fēi; born August 14, 1942) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, producer, film professor and film critic.[1]
Early life
Xie was born August 14 in Yan'an city of Shaanxi Province, China and went to primary school and high school in Beijing. In high school he began to love drama and cinema. He wrote journals after watching films and played roles in school theater group.
In 1960 he was enrolled in Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy, and graduated in 1965.[2]
Career
Xie Fei has taught at his alma mater as an instructor and professor since and was the vice-president of that institution from 1985-1989. Although he has not made many films due to The Great Culture Revolution (1966-1976) and teaching career, most of his works are critics' favorites. Several of them won international film festival awards. His A Girl From Human (1986) and A Mongolian Tale (1995) were commercially distributed American movie theaters.[citation needed]
After Song of Tibet (2000) was censored for 6 months before releasing in a few theaters, he stopped making films (at the age of 59). He has worked as producer, film festival juries in China and abroad.[citation needed]
In 2001 he directed 23 episodes of TV drama Sun Rise adapted from a play by noted Chinese playwright Cao YU 曹禺(1910-1996).[3]
On December 15, 2012 Xie Fei posted an open letter on Weibo a popular Chinese Blog calling for changes of film censorship and won great support from film makers.[4]
Best Screen Writer Special Award 20th Chinese Golden Rooster Film Awards
References
^P376 Encyclopedia of Chinese Film Edited by Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao, Routledge 1998, Copy right Routledge， ISBN0-415-15168-6，PN1993.5.Z53
^Teach for a while, Direct for a While: An Interview with China's Xiefei Conducted by John A. Lent P 220-230 from 100 Years of Chinese Cinema A Generational Dialogue edited by Haili Kong & John A. Lent EastBridge Signature Books Copy right 2006 by EastBridge ISBN1-891936-94-8 PN1993.5.C4O54 2005
^P184-185 from Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema Tan Ye and Yun Zhu Copy right 2012 by Tan Ye and Yun Zhu.
Published by Scraecrow Press，Inc 2012 ISBN978-0-8108-6779-6
PN1993.5.C4Y43 2013
^P106 China's Encounter with Global Hollywood :Cultural Policy and the Film Industry 1994-2013 Wendy Su
Copy Right The University Press of Kentucky 2016 ISBN9780813167084 PN1993.5.C4 S887 2016
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