Zhao Tao
Nacimiento : 1977-01-28, Taiyuan - Shanxi - China
Historia
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Zhao Tao (Chinese: 赵涛, born 28 January 1977) is a famous Chinese actress, work in China and Europe, she has over 10 films to her credit since starting her career in 1999, muse of director Jia Zhangke. Zhao first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Jia Zhangke and is credited with helping to bring Chinese cinema to Europe, especially Italy. As Shun Li in Io sono Li, her best starring role to date, she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at David di Donatello. Zhao's native language is Jinese, but she is multilingual, having learned to speak Italian, Mandarin and Szechuanese.
Biography
She was born January 28, 1977, in Taiyuan, Shanxi, which is also the hometown of the heroine in Still Life. As a child, she studied classical Chinese dance. In 1996, she enrolled in the folk dance department at Beijing Dance Academy. After graduation, she became a dance teacher in Taiyuan Normal College, where she was spotted by Jia during casting for Platform. Since then they work frequently together.
In 2011 she starred in the Italian movie Shun Li and the Poet by Andrea Segre, the movie was screened in the Venice Days section of the 68th Venice International Film Festival.
Zhao won the David di Donatello Award, the Italian Oscar, for Best Actress for her bilingual role.
Producer
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
Zhao Qiao
Qiao es una joven bailarina que vive en los subrubios industriales de la ciudad de China, una zona que toma el nombre de Datong, donde se enamorará de Bin, un mafioso de la zona. Tras una pelea entre bandas, en la que se ve mezclado el joven, Quiao dispara para poder protegerle y es sentenciada a cinco años de prisión. Después de ese largo periodo, ella volverá a buscar a Bin para poder continuar su apasionada historia de amor desde el punto en que la dejaron.
History Teacher
Cuatro destinos trágicos vinculados por un accidente escolar. Para proteger a un amigo, Bu empuja por las escaleras al matón del instituto, Shuai. Por su parte, la compañera de clase de Bu, Ling, quiere escapar de su madre y de su rutina tras ser seducida por su maestro. Mientras, el hermano mayor de Shuai, Cheng, se siente responsable por el suicidio de su mejor amigo y quiere vengarse de Bu por el accidente de su hermano menor. Además, el Sr. Wang, un jubilado entusiasta, no quiere que su hijo lo encierre en una residencia. La única salida de los protagonistas parece ser huir hacia la ciudad de Manzhouli, donde se dice que hay un elefante sentado que simplemente ignora el mundo. Disponen solamente de 24 horas para resolver sus vidas antes de que el tren se ponga en marcha.
A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The collection—taking the concept of time as a unifying theme—depicts the economic, political, and social alienations and contradictions that create, compound, and structure issues as wide-ranging as poverty, class stratification, and homeless; familial distress; spousal abuse; and natural disaster.
Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). In Jia’s segment, a Chinese couple in the ancient town of Pingyao attempts to breathe new life into their old love as they ponder having a second child. Pingyao, home to the film festival Jia has co-founded, is a highly picturesque UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Jia humorously plays with a very recent dilemma – the second child policy dates from only 2013 – in a setting itself forcibly revived from history.
Writer
Un cautivador drama acerca de varios mineros del carbón de la provinica de Shanxi en busca de trabajo.
Shen Tao
China, a finales de 1999. Tao, una joven de Fenyang, es cortejada por sus dos amigos de la infancia, Zang y Lianzi. Zang, propietario de una estación de gasolina, está destinado a un futuro prometedor, mientras que Liang trabaja en una mina de carbón. Su corazón está dividido entre los dos hombres, y debe tomar una decisión que sellará su destino y el de su futuro hijo.
Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys' traces two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing. Both face a similar fate. Air pollution is one of China's most pressing environmental and health issues. Greenpeace calls for a shift from coal to clean renewable energy, as well as short term measures that better safeguard people's health.
Self
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the memory of a filmmaker and of a country in convulsion, China, which reveals itself little by little.
Xiao Yu
Dahai, minero exasperado por la corrupción de los dirigentes de su pueblo, decide pasar a la acción. San'er, un trabajador emigrante, descubre las infinitas posibilidades que le ofrece su arma. Xiaoyu, recepcionista en una sauna, no soporta más el acoso de un cliente rico. Xiaohui pasa de un trabajo a otro en condiciones cada vez más degradantes. Cuatro personajes, cuatro provincias, una reflexión sobre China contemporánea: una sociedad con un desarrollo económico colosal poco a poco erosionado por la violencia. (FILMAFFINITY)
(segment "Alone Together")
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
Shun Li
Shun Li ha viajado desde china hasta Roma para ganarse la vida de cualquier forma. La inmigrante ha conseguido un empleo en una fábrica textil situada a las afueras de la capital y ve más cerca su sueño: legalizar su situación y ahorrar para poder traerse a su hijo, de apenas ocho años, a Italia. Pronto, Shun Li es trasladada a Chioggia, un pueblo de Venecia, para trabajar como camarera en un club donde conocerá a Bepi, uno de los clientes más fieles del sitio. Bepi, apodado el poeta, se gana la vida como pescador, aunque lo que verdaderamente le apasiona son los caminos de la poesía –justificación a su sobrenombre- y la filosofía. Entre la camarera y el poeta surge pronto la amistad y ambos mantienen conversaciones bastante trascendentales que se convierten en una vía de escape a la soledad y la rutina diarias. Sin embargo, no todos los habitantes de esta comunidad pesquera verán esta amistad intercultural con buenos ojos.
Self
A Shanghai, una metrópoli en rápida evolución, una ciudad de intensa actividad portuaria, llegan todo tipo de personas: revolucionarios, capitalistas, políticos, soldados, artistas y mafiosos. También ha visto revoluciones, asesinatos e historias de amor. Después de la victoria de los comunistas chinos en 1949, miles de habitantes de la ciudad marcharon a Hong Kong y Taiwán. Irse significaba el abandono de sus hogares, la separación de sus familiares; pero quedarse significaba sufrir las consecuencias de la Revolución Cultural y otros desastres.
Blue Goddess
TEN THOUSAND WAVES is a 9-screen installation shot on location in China. The work poetically weaves together stories linking China’s ancient past and present. Through an architectural installation, the work explores the movement of people across countries and continents and meditates on unfinished journeys. Conceived and made over four years, TEN THOUSAND WAVES sees Julien collaborating with some of China’s leading artistic voices, including the legendary siren of Chinese cinema Maggie Cheung; rising star of Chinese film Zhao Tao; poet Wang Ping; master calligrapher Gong Fagen; artist Yang Fudong; acclaimed cinematographer Zhao Xiaoshi; and a 100-strong Chinese cast and crew. The film’s original musical score is by fellow East Londoner Jah Wobble and The Chinese Dub Orchestra and contemporary classical composer Maria de Alvear.
Jia Zhangke’s short for Modern Weekly’s special tenth anniversary issue.
Short-movie form Stories on Human Rights, 2008.
Su Na
24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned factory in Chengdu, southwest China and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.
An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers, meet again one year later. The yesterday's breath of youth is still perceptible in their conversations. Is it still possible for us to love? Does youth really have an end? Like the networks linking the old city, what type of ecological existence does their culture require? Written by Venice Film Festival
Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the two never speak to one another, the girl captures her appearance and life changes during the years through various means such as photos and drawings.
Producer
Observations of three varied corners of China’s garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies against the mass-machine-production of clothes and has created the eponymous hand-made collection called ‘Useless’ (Wuyong) for Paris Fashion Week; and finally the simple life of increasingly out-of-work tailors in small town Fengdang.
Shen-Hong Guo
Tras la construcción de la presa de las Tres Gargantas (China) la aldea de Fengjie fue inundada y sus habitantes realojados en un nuevo emplazamiento. El minero Han Sanming regresa a Fengjie, después de 16 años de ausencia, a buscar a su mujer. También la enfermera Shen Hong busca en la aldea a su marido.
Tao
La película gira al rededor de Tao, una cantante del Beijing World Park, y su novio Tai-Sheng, quien se ocupa de la seguridad del parque temático. Pero los enamorados empiezan a distanciarse cuando otros personajes también ejercen su poder de seducción..
Qiao Qiao
Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.
Yin Ruijuan
China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
