Zhang Yuan is a Chinese film director who has been described by film scholars as a pioneering member of China's Sixth Generation of filmmakers. He and his films have won ten awards out of seventeen nominations received at international film festivals.
Zhang Yuan, Cines del Sur 2007
The cinema of China is the filmmaking and film industry of the Chinese mainland under the People's Republic of China, one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan.
1926 Tianyi film Lady Meng Jiang, starring Hu Die
20-year-old Ruan Lingyu, a superstar during the silent film era, in Love and Duty (1931)
Jin Yan, a Korean-born Chinese actor featured in The Big Road (1935), who gained fame during China's golden age of cinema
Zhou Xuan, an iconic Chinese singer and film actress