Place of Birth:
Fenyang, Shanxi, China
Date of Birth:
5/24/1970
Jia Zhang-ke (Chinese: 贾樟柯; pinyin: Jiǎ Zhāngkē, born 24 May 1970; Fenyang) is a Chinese film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer. He is the dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media College and the dean of the Vancouver Film School of Shanghai University. He graduated from the Literature Department of Beijing Film Academy. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Wang Quan'an and Zhang Yuan. Jia's early films, a loose trilogy based in his home province of Shanxi, were made outside of China's state-run film bureaucracy, and therefore are considered "underground" films. Beginning in 2004, Jia's status in his own country rose when he was allowed to direct his fourth feature film, The World, with state approval. Jia's films have received critical praise and have been recognized internationally, notably winning the Venice Film Festival's top award Golden Lion for Still Life. He received the Leopard of Honour at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, the Carrosse d'Or lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, and an honorary award at the Visions du Réel in 2024. Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek hailed him as "one of the top directors in the world today.".
The Great Director
Art College 1994
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
The Continent
Karmic Mahjong
Boundless
Black Dog
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
About Cinema
A Touch of Sin
Xiao Jia Going Home
Unknown Pleasures
Our Time: A Decade of Daring
Everybody's Fine
Mostly Sunny
Made in China
Overloaded Peking
Pseudo Idealist
The Best is Yet to Come
Shiny Stars, Rusty Red
Visit
Citizen Kitano
The Hedonists
Keep Rolling
My Camera Doesn’t Lie
Out of Order
Xiao Shan Going Home