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Vivian Qu (Chinese: 文晏; Wen Yan) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and producer who directed the award-winning 2013 film Trap Street. She also produced Night Train, released in 2007, Knitting, in 2008 and Black Coal, Thin Ice in 2014, which won that year's Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Vivian Qu
Born	Beijing, China
Occupation	Film producer, screenwriter, film director,
Awards	Jury Grand Prize 2013 Trap Street Boston International Film Festival Dragons and Tigers Award — Special Mention 2013 Trap Street Vancouver International Film Festival
Chinese name
Chinese	文晏
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wén Yàn

In 2017, her second directing feature Angels Wear White was entered into the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival[2] and later won her a Golden Horse Award for Best Director in Taiwan.[3]

Early life and education

Qu was born and brought up in Beijing, China. She went to the United States in the 1990s[1] and studied art history and fine arts in New York City.[4] She says that the subject of cinema combined all her interests, in "writing, photography, music... together in one art form".[1]

Life and career

In 2003, Qu returned to Beijing,[1] in order to become a film producer, and to pursue her interest in helping independent filmmakers. She says that she became aware that whilst filmmakers in China have good ideas and scripts, they lack the resources to produce or market their films for an international audience.[5] In 2007, she began producing films in collaboration with Chinese film director Diao Yi'Nan, and first produced Night Train, the story of a young, widowed prison guard who takes a night train to a dating service, as she feels lonely and isolated. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.[4] The following year, she produced the film Knitting, a romantic drama told from a female perspective and based on the Chinese myth of the cowherd and the weaver girl, as told in the Qixi Festival. In 2013, she produced Longing for the Rain, the story of a woman living in a loveless marriage until a man appears in her dreams, and with whom she finds she cannot live without.[6]

As Qu was working creatively with film directors in her role as film producer, she also decided to try to direct. Her debut feature as director, Trap Street, made in 2013, tells the story of a young digital map-maker who finds his computerised maps have been mysteriously altered after he becomes infatuated with a young woman working for China's intelligence service, in a street which does not officially exist. Qu says that the film reflects a changing reality in modern China, in which people have started to notice "little things that are happening", such as "the Internet and text messages being censored all the time", with social media services such as Facebook routinely inaccessible. She also says that people are detained by the authorities for apparently minor infractions, such as keying in particular words on search engines. However, she says that, despite such perceptions, for most of the younger generation in China, who did not live through such periods as the Cultural Revolution, "this is something completely new", and that they don't understand why it is happening. She says that, for her, "this [trend] is very disturbing... but we're not taking it seriously".[5]

Filmography

As Scriptwriter

• 2004 Letter From an Unknown Woman^{[citation needed]}
• 2013 Trap Street

As director

• 2017 Angels Wear White
• 2013 Trap Street

As producer

• 2014 Black Coal, Thin Ice
• 2013 Longing for the Rain
• 2008 Knitting
• 2007 Night Train

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Nominated Film	Result
2013	Vancouver International Film Festival	Dragons & Tigers	Trap Street	Won
2013	Independent Film Festival Boston	Jury Grand Prix		Won
2013	70th Venice International Film Festival	Luigi De Lawrence		Nominated
2013	70th Venice International Film Festival	Surprise movie of "Critic's Week Unit"		Nominated
2017	74th Venice International Film Festival	Golden Lion	Angels Wear White	Nominated
2017	61st BFI London Film Festival	Main Competition		Nominated
2017	1st Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival	Fei Mu Honorable Best Film		Won
2017	54th Golden Horse Awards	Best Director		Won
2017	54th Golden Horse Awards	Best Film Drama		Nominated
2017	54th Antalya Kumquat International Film Festival	Best Film		Won
2018	12th Asian Film Awards	Best Film		Nominated
2018	12th Asian Film Awards	Best New Director		Nominated
2018	The 2nd Malaysia International Film Festival	Best Screenplay		Won
2018	The 2nd Malaysia International Film Festival	Best Director		Won
2018	9th China Film Directors' Guild	Director of the Year		Won[7]
2018	9th China Film Directors' Guild	Film of the Year		Nominated
2018	9th China Film Directors' Guild	Screenplay of the Year		Nominated
2018	25th Beijing College Student Film Festival	Grand Jury Prize		Won
2018	25th Beijing College Student Film Festival	Best Director		Nominated

References

External links

• Vivian Qu at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Vivian Qu

Vivian Qu (* in Peking; bl. ab 2003; chinesischer Name: 文晏, Pinyin: Wen Yan) ist eine chinesische Filmproduzentin, -regisseurin und Drehbuchautorin.

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