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Chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke has received international attention for his first two
features, 'Pickpocket' and 'Platform'. His work has been praised for filmmaking
technique as well as its confrontation of everyday life in contemporary urban China.
Jia Zhang-Ke was born in 1970 in Fenyang, a small town in the northern province of Shanxi. Fenyang, a one-hour drive from China's famous Yellow River, was the primary location of 'Platform'. Jia ZhangKe also shot 'Pickpocket' and UNKNOWN PLEASURES in Shanxi province.
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At the age of 18, Jia Zhang-Ke studied painting in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province.
He developed an interest in fiction, and wrote his first novel, 'The Sun Hung On The Crotch', in 1991. Two years later, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy. In 1995, he founded the Youth Experimental Film Group, the first independent production organisation of its kind in China. With the group, he directed two award-winning videos, 'Xiao Shan Going Home' and 'Du Du'. Upon film school graduation in 1997, he made his first feature, 'Pickpocket' (Xiao Wu).
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2002
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1997
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UNKNOWN PLEASURES [In Competition - Cannes 2002]
PLATFORM [Venice (Netpac Award), Nantes (Best Film, Best Director), Singapore (Young
Cinema Award), Buenos Aires (Best Film), Fribourg (Don Quixote Award, FIPRESCI Prize)]
XIAO WU (PICKPOCKET) [ Berlin (Netpac Award), Brussels (Prix de l'Age d'Or), Pusan (New Current Prize), Vancouver (Dragon & Tiger Prize), Nantes (Best Film), San Francisco (Skyy Prize), Rimini (Grand Prize)]
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