China’s Parallax Films has sold the U.S. rights to the Chinese art house film“Girls Always Happy” to New York-based Icarus Films, with a licensing period of five years.
The title is the feature film debut of young Chinese female filmmaker Yang Mingming. It stars Nai An — best known as the longtime producer for Chinese director Lou Ye, who at one point was banned alongside him from filmmaking in China for their work together— and Chinese indie cinema heavyweight Zhang Xianmin. Zhang is the critic and curator behind the now-defunct Chinese Independent Film Festival in Nanjing, was had been one of the country’s most influential.
The film was theatrically released in China in May but grossed just $32,000. Produced by Beijing Trend Cultural Investment, it tells a story of “mutual repulsion, hatred and harm” between a single mother and her daughter living together in a Beijing hutong.
“Girls...
The title is the feature film debut of young Chinese female filmmaker Yang Mingming. It stars Nai An — best known as the longtime producer for Chinese director Lou Ye, who at one point was banned alongside him from filmmaking in China for their work together— and Chinese indie cinema heavyweight Zhang Xianmin. Zhang is the critic and curator behind the now-defunct Chinese Independent Film Festival in Nanjing, was had been one of the country’s most influential.
The film was theatrically released in China in May but grossed just $32,000. Produced by Beijing Trend Cultural Investment, it tells a story of “mutual repulsion, hatred and harm” between a single mother and her daughter living together in a Beijing hutong.
“Girls...
- 7/8/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Yang Mingming was born in Beijing in 1987, and is a graduate of the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts. Her debut, a short film “Female Directors,” was deemed one of the most interesting independent Chinese films of 2012 and went to be screened at numerous festivals. She worked with Yang Chao as the editor of his “Crosscurrent.””Girls Always Happy” is her first feature film.
On the occasion of the screening of Girls Always Happy at Five Flavours Festival, where the film earned a special mention from the jury, we speak with her and Li Yuan, one of the actresses of the movie, about “Crosscurrent”, mothers and daughters, the shooting of the film, hutong, the situation in Chinese cinema, and other topics.
You have worked in Yang Chao’s “Crosscurrent” as an editor. How was the experience of working in the film and what about working with Mark Lee?
Yang Mingming:...
On the occasion of the screening of Girls Always Happy at Five Flavours Festival, where the film earned a special mention from the jury, we speak with her and Li Yuan, one of the actresses of the movie, about “Crosscurrent”, mothers and daughters, the shooting of the film, hutong, the situation in Chinese cinema, and other topics.
You have worked in Yang Chao’s “Crosscurrent” as an editor. How was the experience of working in the film and what about working with Mark Lee?
Yang Mingming:...
- 11/28/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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