Name Hu Jie | Role Filmmaker | |
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Movies Though I Am Gone, Searching for Lin Zhao's Soul, Angel Warriors Similar René Viénet, Huayang Fu, Bowie Lau, Zhou Libo (comedian) | ||
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Hu Jie (born 1958) is a Chinese filmmaker and artist known for the films Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul (2004), Though I Am Gone (2007), and Spark (2013), which constitute a "trilogy of documentaries about Maoist China." Spark received the top prize at the 2014 Taiwan Independent Documentary Festival.
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Hu attended the People's Liberation Army Arts College, later serving in the People's Liberation Army for fifteen years and finding work with the Xinhua News Agency prior to his debut as a director.
In addition to his work in film, Hu is an accomplished artist of woodblock prints, recently producing a series of pieces depicting scenes from the Great Famine which was intended to be exhibited in Tianjin in 2014 before being deemed too controversial, leading to the showcase's cancellation.