Li Yang (director)

Li Yang
Born	1959 (age 64–65) Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Occupation(s)	Film director, Screenwriter
Years active	1990s-present
Awards	Silver Berlin Bear - Outstanding Artistic Achievement 2003 Blind Shaft Deauville Golden Lotus 2003 Blind Shaft Hong Kong Silver Firebird 2003 Blind Shaft Bratislava Grand Prix 2007 Blind MountainGolden Horse Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay 2003 Blind Shaft
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	李楊
Simplified Chinese	李杨
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lǐ Yáng

Li Yang (simplified Chinese: 李杨; traditional Chinese: 李楊; pinyin: Lǐ Yáng; born 1959) is a Chinese writer-director. Though often grouped with the so-called Sixth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, he is in fact closer in age to the Fifth Generation and in interviews has denied membership with either group, claiming that such labels are only artificial differentiations.^[1]

Born in Xi'an, China in 1959, Li studied at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute from 1985 to 1987, after which he moved to Germany. There he made several documentary films and spent some time acting on German television before eventually enrolling and graduating from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in 1995.^[1]