Zhang Yuan (director)

Zhang Yuan
Zhang Yuan, Cines del Sur 2007
BornOctober 1963 (age 61)
OccupationFilm director
SpouseNing Dai
AwardsTiger Award - Rotterdam
1996 Sons
Best Director - Mar del Plata
1996 East Palace, West Palace
Best Director - Gijón
1999 Seventeen Years
Special Director's Award - Venice
1999 Seventeen Years
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese張元
Simplified Chinese张元
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhāng Yuán

Zhang Yuan (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Zhāng Yuán; born October 1963) is a Chinese film director who has been described by film scholars as a pioneering member of China's Sixth Generation of filmmakers.[1] He and his films have won ten awards out of seventeen nominations received at international film festivals.[2]

  1. ^ Tasker, Yvonne (2002). "Zhang Yuan" in Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers. Routledge Publishing, p. 419. ISBN 0-415-18974-8. Google Book Search. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
  2. ^ Movie Database list of nominations and awards won by Zhang Yuan at international film festivals[permanent dead link]