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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Associate Producer
Biography:"Wang Xiaoshuai" is a prominent member of China's nascent Sixth Generation of filmmakers. Unlike their Fifth Generation counterparts such as "Zhang Yimou", "Tian Zhuangzhuang", and "Chen Kaige", they were too young to experience the full savagery of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. Thus, instead of toiling with the peasants, they were able to enter the Beijing Film Academy directly after completing high school. Wang entered the B.F.A. in 1985 and upon graduation he was assigned to Fujian Film Studios in southern China. There he performed a variety of jobs until he decided to borrow money to independently make a feature film. This was a highly unusual move in Communist China. Yet Wang, like his Sixth Generation colleague "Zhang Yuan", having witnessed their elders' torturous go-arounds with government censors, decided to opt out. After subsisting for weeks on a single meal a day of instant noodles or... Full Biography
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