2014 CHINESE VISUAL FESTIVAL
- Guest directors Jia Zhangke and Pema Tseden
- More than 40 cutting-edge films, including world and UK premieres
- China Independent Film Festival 10th
- Anniversary event and guests
- Wang Xin’s daily experimental art installation project The Gallery
- Local filmmakers showcase, panel discussions and public lectures with key industry figures and academics, including Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns
- The Chinese Visual Festival Jury Awards, presided by a team of industry and academic experts, will be announced in early May
Chinese Visual Festival (CVF) is proud to announce its 2014 edition, which runs from May 7th– 18th at King’s College London, with events also being held at Riverside Studios in collaboration with DocHouse.
For 2014, the festival is thrilled to welcome two of the most important filmmakers in modern independent Chinese language cinema, Jia Zhangke and Pema Tseden. In addition to a preview of his latest work, the award winning A Touch of Sin at the BFI, Jia will also host a very special screening session at King’s of his rarely seen short films. Acclaimed Tibetan director Pema Tseden opens the festival with Old Dog, as well as screening his other works and taking part in panel discussion sessions on Tibetan Culture and filmmaking. CVF is also delighted to be collaborating with Newcastle University in holding a celebration of ten years of the China Independent Film Festival (CIFF), one of the most vital and enduring Chinese language film events. To help mark this remarkable anniversary, CVF will be hosting a special animation session, as well as welcoming CIFF’s Cao Kai and Zhang Xianmin for what promises to be a fascinating panel discussion.
Now in its fourth year, CVF has significantly expanded to include the very best in Chinese language independent fiction as well as documentary, art and experimental cinema. The 40+ films screened this year cover a fantastic range of contemporary themes, genres and issues, from mainland Chinese gangsters in Burned Wings and E Huang Mountain to humanist Taiwanese documentaries such as A Rolling Stone and creative experimental cinema in Deformity Sci-Fi and Kun 13: Criticising Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao.
Details are available on the Chinese Visual Festival website: www.chinesevisualfestival.org
Exhibition details are available on the Cultural Institute at King’s web pages: www.kcl.ac.uk/culture
