Li Ruijun
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Li Ruijun | |||||||
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| Born | 1983 (age 40–41) Gaotai, Gansu, China | ||||||
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter | ||||||
| Spouse | Zhang Min[1] | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 李 叡 珺 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 李 睿 珺 | ||||||
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Li Ruijun (Chinese: 李睿珺; pinyin: Lǐ Ruìjùn, born 1983) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter.[2][3]
Life and career[edit]
Born in Gansu province in 1983, Li Ruijun studied music and painting at the age of fourteen.[citation needed] In 2003, he graduated from the China National Ministry of Radio, Film, and Television. From 2003 to 2006, he worked as director for television stations and television program providers.[citation needed]
He started work on his debut feature film, The Summer Solstice, in 2006, writing the script as well as directing it, and finished the post-production in 2007.[3][4] He has since made five more feature films as well as one short.
Filmography[edit]
- The Summer Solstice 夏至 (2007) – director, screenwriter, actor, editor, production manager
- The Old Donkey 老驢頭 (2010) – director, screenwriter, composer, editor
- Fly with the Crane 告訴他們,我乘白鶴去了 (2012) – director, screenwriter
- Present 禮物 (short film, 2014) – director, screenwriter
- One Day (segment: "Present") 有一天 (segment: "禮物") (2014) – director, screenwriter
- River Road (家在水草豐茂的地方) (2015) – director, screenwriter, editor
- Walking Past the Future (2017) – director, screenwriter
- Return to Dust (2022) – director, screenwriter, editor.[5]
Awards[edit]
- 46th Brasilia Film Festival: Best Director – Fly with the Crane[3] (2013)
- 5th China Film Director's Guild Awards: Best Young Director – Fly with the Crane[6] (2014)
- 67th Valladolid International Film Festival: Golden Spike – Return to Dust[7] (2022)
References[edit]
- ^ "Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival 金考拉国际华语电影节". Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival. 29 March 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
- ^ Feng Yingxing (冯颖星) (2022). 隐入尘烟，失语者的爱情 [Return to Dust: the love of the speechless]. Nothing but Storytelling (in Chinese). 402. Beijing: People's Publishing House: 106–112. ISSN 1001-6635.
- ^ a b c Ma, Karen (7 June 2016). "Tackling the Issue of Ageing in Rural China: An Interview with Li Ruijun". VCinema. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ "Independent Film Screening: The Summer Solstice". Rockbund Art Museum. 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
- ^ "Yin Ru Chen Yan | Return to Dust". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
- ^ Ma, Kevin (10 April 2014). "China Film Directors' Guild self-criticises". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ^ Rivera, Alfonso (31 October 2022). "Return to Dust, by Chinese director Li Ruijun, receives the Golden Spike at Seminci". cineuropa. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
External links[edit]
- Li Ruijun at the Hong Kong Movie Database
- Li Ruijun at IMDb
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