Producer, Director, Curator, Writer, Actor, and Professor at Beijing Film Academy
Chinese (Beijing)
Zhang Xianmin is a producer, director, curator, writer and actor, active across many areas of the film industry. As a Professor at the Beijing Film Academy, Zhang teaches screenwriting and documentary filmmaking and occasionally French cinema and absurdist theatre. Zhang has produced and co-produced many features, including Old Dog (Pema Tseden, 2011), River Road (Li Ruijun, 2014), Kaili Blues (Bi Gan, 2016), to name a few. His acting credits include Rain Clouds Over Wushan (Zhang Ming, 1996), Summer Palace (Lou Ye, 2006), Missing and Raised from Dust (Gan Xiao’er, 2007), which he also wrote. Zhang has also been a juror at more than a dozen international film festivals and served as Jury President of One Foundation Video Festival in 2012 and 2013. He organizes and programmes the China Independent Film Festival (CIFF) and Chinese indie cinema events around the world.
