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Time: 13:00 - 15:00, June 8 th 2010
Venue: Sun Hall, Floor 9th, SMG, 298 Weihai Road, Shanghai
Content: Asia has become a new spotlight in world documentaries. How is Asian image portrayed during the process of global communication? And how many misunderstandings and blanks are there during the process? How do conflicts and integration of values, culture and politics imperceptibly change our positions and attitudes?
Moderator: He Shaoguang
Guest Speakers:
Biographies of Guests
Patricia Schlesinger
Controller Factual, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Hamburg
Patricia graduated from University of Hamburg in 1988, Master of Science. Since 1983, she became the freelancer for NDR Hamburg. 1988, Patricia was employed by NDR Hamburg as TV reporter/ correspondent working for economics department and domestic political department. Since 1995, she’s been assigned by NDR Hamburg as TV Correspondent and Head of Bureau of German Television ARD – Studio Singapore. She held a post as Presenter of PANORAMA from1997 to 2001 and TV-Correspondent in Washington D.C. from 2001-2004. Patricia served as Head of Current Affairs and Foreign Desk since 2004. In 2006, she’s assigned as Head of Documentaries and Deputy Controller Factual & Children.
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Kaoru Ikeya
Japanese Documentary Director
Kaoru Ikeya is an internationally awarded documentary director and the best known for his distinguished works on China such as Daughter from Yan'an (Best Documentary, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, Best Documentary, Pennsylvania Film Festival) and Yan'an: Yellow Soil and the New Reality (Golden Nymph, Monte Carlo International TV Festival). |
Hans-Stefan Heyne
Head of International Acquisitions, Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing GmbH
Mr. Heyne was employed as Unit Manager and Assistant Production Manager at NDR from 1968 to 1980. Since 1980, Mr. Heyne had been Production Manager at Studio Hamburg which is Northern Germany’s biggest production company providing any and all facilities for any kind of media production. He held the position of Head of Production at SAT.1 in Hamburg since 1985 focusing on entertainment and sports events. He was free-lance Production Manager of radio at NDR in 1987-1988. From 1988, Mr. Heyne has been Head of International Co-productions and Acquisitions at NDR International and after merger with Studio Hamburg at Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing GmbH.
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Christine Choy
Asian-American Documentary Director, Producer
Christine Choy received her Master of Science degree from the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and Directing Certificate from the American Film Institute. She is a full professor at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She also taught at Yale and Cornell Universities as well as SUNY Buffalo. Choy has received over seventy international awards include an Oscar Nomination, she also was a recipient of numerous fellowships among them, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, NEA, NEH, NYSCA, Asian Cultural Council. She has produced/directed/photographed more than eighty works in various forms. Her works have been broadcasted on HBO, PBS, NHK and many other stations. Her works have also been featured at International festivals such as Berlin, Cannes and so on. |
Peng Xiaolian
Film Director, Writer
Graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1982 and New York University in 1993, Peng Xiaolian is a major figure in the world of Chinese cinema. Peng is a director and writer. As a director, Peng worked for Shanghai Film Studio from 1982 to 1989, and then worked as a freelance director from 1996. Acclaimed by the critics, she has remained faithful to her favorite city, Shanghai. Peng Xiaolian has made Me and My Classmates (1986), Quansha (1996), Once upon a time in Shanghai (1998), Manzan Benigaki (2001), Shanghai Women (2002), Shanghai Story (2004) and Shanghai Rumba (2006). Peng is a multi-award winning director as she has won awards including "Best Film Award" and "Best Director Award" of Golden Rooster Awards, and "Best foreign language Award" of AOF. In 2001 Peng completed Red Persimmons, on which Ogawa had begun production in the late Eighties, which later opened 2001.
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Zhou Hao
Documentary Director
Zhou used to work for Xinhua News Agency. Zhou started making documentary since 2001. His major works include Hou Street, Senior Year and Using, etc. He has won several major awards including Hong Kong Film Festival and Taiwan Documentary Festival, Magnolia International Documentary Award, etc. Zhou has joined jury panels of many international documentary festivals. |
Fan Lixin
Documentary Director
Fan Lixin was born in China, starting off as a journalist with the national television broadcaster CCTV. In 2003, Fan edited the Peabody and Grierson award-winning documentary To Live Is Better than to Die. In 2006, he worked as associate producer/soundman on the acclaimed feature documentary Up the Yangtze. The film played the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, won the Genie award as Canada's top documentary feature, and was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award. Fan's debut feature documentary Last Train Home is the winner of Joris Ivens Award at IDFA 2009. Last Train Home is selected in world documentary competition at Sundance Film Festival 2010 and won the top prize at RIDM (Montreal) and the Whistler International Film Festival.
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He Shaoguang (Moderator)
Deputy Director of Guangzhou Documentary Association
Entering Chinese TV media area from 1980, He Shaoguang has working experience in Guangdong TV and Guangzhou TV, specializing in arts design, commercial production, management and TV program productions. As producer and program supervisor, He started his own independent production company Grand Entertainment (GZ) in 1999.He presented exhibitions in Guangzhou under title of Arts of Aboriginal Australians, Chinese Gold Rushers in Australia from 2000 to 2002. He established GZ DOC and worked as secretary general and general manager from 2003 to 2008. He started China Screen in UK with Michel Noll, co-presenting China Screen Film Festival in 2008 and established Guangzhou Documentary Association in 2009. |
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