Jia Zhangke

Jia Zhangke was born in Fenyang, in Shanxi, on 24 May 1970, the son of a schoolteacher according to The China Project. He first studied painting in Taiyuan; seeing Yellow Earth, by Chen Kaige, made up his mind to make films. Rejected twice for directing according to The China Project, he entered the Beijing Film Academy in 1993 in theoretical studies. His first feature films were not released in China; he shot with the authorities' approval from 2004, received the Golden Lion at Venice in 2006 and founded an international festival in Pingyao in 2017.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaXiao Wu小武Jia Zhangke · 1997Cinema