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Cui Zi'en (), born 1958, in
Harbin Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...
in the
People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
, is a film director, producer, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an outspoken
LGBT LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used; LGBTQIA+ people incorporates intersex, asexual, aromantic, agender, and other individuals. The gro ...
activist based in
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. He graduated from the
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with an MA in
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and now is an associate professor at the Film Research Institute of the Beijing Film Academy. Cui Zi'en is one of the
avant-garde In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable ...
DV makers in Chinese
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. He has published nine novels in China and
Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
, one of which, ''Uncle's Past'', won the 2001 ''Radio Literature Award'' in Germany. In the same year, he founded the Beijing Queer Film Festival, the first LGBT film festival in mainland China. He is also the author of books on
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and
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, as well as a columnist for magazines.


Recognition

In 2002, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( IGLHRC) presented the Felipa de Souza Award to Cui Zi'en. Cui brought issues of same-sex love into Chinese culture and public awareness, with a prolific crop of critically acclaimed articles, lectures, books, and films, including the first gay novel in modern China. Despite it being banned in mainland China, the novel is still available through unofficial channels.


Filmography


See also

* Homosexuality in China


Other Chinese LGBT film directors

* Simon Chung * Kit Hung * Stanley Kwan *
Quentin Lee Quentin Lee (; born 1971) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian-American film writer, director, and producer. He is most notable for the television series ''Comedy InvAsian'' and feature films ''The People I've Slept With'' (2009), ''Ethan Mao'' (2004), ...
* Zihan Loo *
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* Yonfan * Fan Popo * Jenny Man Wu


References


Mtime
, retrieved 10-03-2009


External links


Felipa Award
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