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Zanbo Zhang

History

Zhang Zanbo, born in the 1970s, an independent film worker, director, screenwriter, graduated with a master's degree from the Beijing Film Academy in 2005. He has opened film columns in various media as an independent film critic and published hundreds of thousands of words of film reviews in various film publications. And research text. Later, he was engaged in independent documentary filming and founded the "Asymptotic Film Studio". His main works include documentary feature films "Heavenly Fall" (2009), "Love Songs" (2010), "There is a kind of quiet called solemnity" (2011), Documentary short film "No. 3, Lane 28, Lane 243, Dehe Road" (2010), "Red White Blue" (2011), and the experimental short film "Famous Flame" (2011), "Disappearing on Grass, Wild Grass and Duckweed" ( 2011), "What are we talking about when talking about sex" (2011), etc. His works have participated in the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Gothenburg International Film Festival, the Madrid International Documentary Film Festival, the New York Contemporary Chinese Documentary Biennale, the Tokyo Chinese Independent Film Festival, the Seoul Independent Record Film, and Television Festival, the Hannover "Chinese Culture Year" video exhibition, Shadows Chinese Independent Documentary Film Festival in Paris, Spanish-Chinese Documentary Film Exchange Exhibition, Taiwanese Chinese Film Forum, Taiwan Documentary Director Exchange Exhibition, Hong Kong Independent Film Festival, Beijing Independent Film Festival, China Documentary Communication Week, China Independent Film Annual Exhibition, Chongqing The folk film exchange exhibition, Yunzhinan Image Exhibition, Hangzhou Asian Youth Film Festival, Shenzhen Bay International Fringe Festival, 60th Anniversary Exhibition of Beijing Film Academy Documentary, Loudspeaker and other film exhibitions have won prizes.

Movies

Director of Photography

More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany and Iraq.

Director

A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao was from. Due to the high cost of construction, construction companies and migrant workers who live on road work rush to here like the tide. In the following four years, they root in this strange place for interests, paying sweat and blood, even their lives. With their arrival, local village and peasants are forced to change their lives. Many hidden interest lines and hidden rules about road construction of the nation are unveiled, together with the shocking truth and emerging secrets.

The Interceptor From My Hometown

The Interceptor From My Hometown

Director

The Chinese government allows its citizens to file official complaints against their local governments, but at the same time unofficially prevents them from doing so. This documentary is the result of the director's random encounter with an old classmate whose job is to convince people not to file their complaints. In long monologues by the director's acquaintance, which take up most of this critical portrait of modern China, we hear a sense of shame at his job, but also helpless resignation.

Falling From the Sky

Falling From the Sky

Director

The little-known Hunan Suining County is an ordinary but full of magical places. As the theoretical point of the rocket wreckage launched by the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, it has greeted the rocket wreckage from the sky dozens of times in the past 20 years since 1990. This mysterious and dangerous “out-of-town visitor” broke the poor and peaceful life of the 160,000 locals in the jurisdiction. 2008 is China's "Olympic Year" and "Aerospace Year." The people of Suining, like the people of the whole country, are looking forward to the Olympics to pay attention to the Olympics and are proud of the growing strength of the comprehensive national strength including aerospace strength. They also have to bear the fate of falling from the sky.