Creative Artists Agency has signed on to represent controversial Chinese filmmaker Wu Hao. Wu’s latest work, “People’s Republic of Desire,” has been selected for consideration in the documentary section of the Academy Awards and goes on commercial release in North America this week.
CAA is set as Wu’s exclusive representation. The company will deploy agents in Beijing and Los Angeles to help build out his career in both the Chinese and international markets.
Shot over two years, “Desire” probes the murky and curious world of live streaming in China and its ability to create Internet idols. The film dedicates most of its time to charting the private lives and online careers of two improbable streaming celebrities, Shen Man, a surgically-enhanced former nurse, and Big Li, a comic. “Desire” won the grand jury prize for documentaries at the SXSW festival in March this year.
With biology degrees from Chinese and U.
CAA is set as Wu’s exclusive representation. The company will deploy agents in Beijing and Los Angeles to help build out his career in both the Chinese and international markets.
Shot over two years, “Desire” probes the murky and curious world of live streaming in China and its ability to create Internet idols. The film dedicates most of its time to charting the private lives and online careers of two improbable streaming celebrities, Shen Man, a surgically-enhanced former nurse, and Big Li, a comic. “Desire” won the grand jury prize for documentaries at the SXSW festival in March this year.
With biology degrees from Chinese and U.
- 11/27/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Wu Hao (born 1972) is a documentary maker and blogger known as Tian Yi. Before he became an award-winning documentarian, Hao Wu was a product manager in Silicon Valley and China. He left his career in tech to pursue his true passion: telling the story of China’s youth through film-making. His first film, “Beijing or Bust”, documents the trials and tribulations of six American born Chinese who chose to return to Beijing and the cultural adaptation they faced. His second film, “The Road to Fame” was released in June 2013 and follows students at China’s top drama academy, as they prepare to stage a Chinese version of the musical Fame. His work, however, isn’t without controversy. In 2006, he was detained for five months by Chinese authorities while working on a film about an underground church in Beijing.Following his detention, Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman started a new blog...
- 7/21/2018
- by Matt Ward
- AsianMoviePulse
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