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Chinese name
  
曹保平

Name
  
Cao Baoping

Pinyin
  
Cao Baoping (Mandarin)

Role
  
Film director

Occupation
  
Film director

Years active
  
2000s



Movies
  
The Equation of Love and Death, Trouble Makers, Einstein and Einstein, The Dead End

Nominations
  
Golden Rooster Award for Best Director

Similar People
  
Tao Guo, Deng Chao, Luodan Wang, Zhou Xun, Jiang Wenli

Einstein and einstein 2013 de cao baoping


Cao Baoping is a Chinese film director. He has emerged in recent years as a figure in China's "midrange" cinema industry. Some industry watchers, like Variety, have situated directors like Cao between the older fifth generation directors, such as Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou, who have achieved major international and box-office success, and the more "underground" sixth generation directors, like Jia Zhangke and Wang Xiaoshuai.

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Cao baoping jury in 22nd cicafc


Directorial career

Cao Baoping graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1989, and spent most of the 1990s teaching screenwriting at his alma mater. Cao would go on to expand into directing television and television films, co-directing the television film Absolute Emotion in 2001.

His solo debut as director was 2006's Trouble Makers, a satirical black comedy about a village taking revenge on a gang of hoodlums. Due to its rough content, Trouble Makers faced a host of problems from censors and spent six years in gestation before finally being released. The film premiered at the 2006 Shanghai International Film Festival, where it was called by Variety's Derek Elley as a standout entry.

In 2008, Cao followed up Trouble Makers with The Equation of Love and Death, starring Zhou Xun. The film was well received and Cao would win a best new director award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival for his efforts.

References

Cao Baoping Wikipedia


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