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张侨勇，著名加拿大籍华裔导演，成功拍摄了《沿江而上》、《千锤百炼》,《水果猎人》《这不是一部电影》等多部作品。他的最新作品在第 44 届艾美奖上获得杰出时事纪录片类别纪录片提名，并入围奥斯卡奖。《这不是一部电影》在多伦多国际电影节首映，并在 The Criterion Collection 上播出。他的短片《生命守门人》在洛杉矶电影节上获得最佳短片奖。并入围了2016年奥斯卡最佳纪录短片，并登上了Vimeo网站的“推荐影片”，同时也在奥斯卡得主《第四公民》导演Laura Poitras的Field of Vision 线上电影单元播映。《Pandemic19暗夜繁星》 于2021年在 Kanopy、Tencent 腾讯视频和 PBS World Channel 等世界各地的流媒体平台上广受好评。
张侨勇的电影曾在各大国际电影节放映，包括圣丹斯电影节、柏林电影节、多伦多国际电影节和IDFA阿姆斯特丹国际纪录片电影节等，并在世界各地的电影院放映。《沿江而上》是北美2008年度最卖座纪录片。2013年，《千锤百炼》成为中国历史上放映量最大的社会纪录片，在中国内地200家影院正式上映，成为当时中国历史上受广泛放映的社会纪录片。
张侨勇的作品也曾在国际各大电视台及网络平台播放，目前他的所有长片作品都在包括Apple TV, Youtube, Vimeo等流媒体上发行可点播，同时也发行至包括中国的流媒体平台爱奇艺、腾讯视频、优酷，美国公共电视台（PBS）、国家地理台（National Geographic）、德法公共电视台（ARTE）、德国电视二台（ZDF）、英国第四台 (Channel 4)、美国HBO电视网、加拿大电影网（TMN）、日本NHK综合频道、加拿大CBC电视台、加拿大贝尓传媒（Bell Media）马来西亚TV2台、韩国SBS和EBS电视台。他的项目幸运地获得了如圣丹斯学院、Doc Society、加拿大影视管理局Telefilm、安大略省的Ontario Creates、魁北克省的SODEC、纪录片电影节Hot Docs、加拿大国家电影局、加拿大艺术委员会等机构的资助。
张侨勇毕业于康考迪亚大学的梅尔·霍普海姆电影学院，并在支持麦斯纳表演法（Meisner technique）的鼻祖学校Neighborhood Playhouse纽约戏剧学院深度学习与创作。他擅长于将情感深度和电影现实主义带入他的作品中。
他的第一部剧情片剧本《茄子》曾入选国际上极富盛名的多伦多国际电影节“作家工作室TIFF Writers Studio”（2018-2019） 以及圣丹斯学院编剧和导演实验室Director and Screenwriter's lab（2015），该项目计划于 2025 -2026年期间投入制作。他还将改编亚裔加拿大作家苏万康·塔玛冯萨短篇小说集《我不知道该怎么念How to Pronounce Knife》（2020年获得加拿大吉勒奖获奖、欧·亨利短篇小说奖、安大略崔灵奖s）的迷你剧集，与加拿大的First Generation Films 联合制作该剧集。
他的电影备受好评，获得多项奖项。巴黎，米兰，温哥华，旧金山，加拿大银幕奖，台湾金马奖（两次），Cinema Eye Honors，等等，并获得圣丹斯，独立精神奖和艾美奖提名。他也是 Don Haig 奖、Yolande 和 Pierre Perrault 奖以及古根海姆新兴艺术家奖的获得者。他是加拿大编剧协会及加拿大导演协会的一员。2013年他应邀成为美国电影艺术与科学学院会员/奥斯卡评委。2016年应邀成为第19届上海国际电影节评审。2024年他应邀称为海南国际电影节评审。
《沿江而上》和《水果猎人》与加拿大国家电影局（NFB）合作制作和Eyesteelfilm。
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2018年，张侨勇与庄一敏在北京创立了北京工作室闪雀映画(北京闪舞之雀映画文化有限公司)。更多工作室信息，请查看的微信公众号：闪雀映画，以及我们的新片场链接： 公司新片场链接。
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Yung Chang is the multi-award-winning director of feature documentaries Up the Yangtze (2007), China Heavyweight (2012), The Fruit Hunters (2013), and This is Not a Movie (2019). His latest, Wuhan Wuhan (2021), was nominated for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary in the 44th News & Documentary Emmy® Awards and qualified for the Oscars® This is Not a Movie premiered at TIFF ’19 and streamed on The Criterion Collection. His Field of Vision short Gatekeeper (2016) is a Vimeo Staff Pick and Oscar® qualifier, winning Best Short at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Pandemic19 (2020) was a Short of the Week, streaming on Kanopy and PBS World Channel.
His first feature script, Eggplant, was a part of the 2018 TIFF Writers Studio and the 2015 Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Directing labs. It’s slated to go into production in 2025. He is also adapting a limited series from the 2020 Giller Prize-winning short story collection, How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa, co-produced by First Generation Films.
A graduate of the Meisner acting technique from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in NYC and Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, Chang's films are recognized for being humanistic stories exploring emotionally complex characters through a cinematic lens.
Chang’s films have premiered at international film festivals
including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, and IDFA and have played theatrically in cinemas around the world. Up the Yangtze was one of the top-grossing documentary releases in 2008. In 2013, China Heavyweight became the most widely screened social-issue documentary in Chinese history with an official release in 200 Mainland Chinese cinemas.
His films have been critically-acclaimed, receiving awards in
Paris, Milan, Vancouver, San Francisco, the Canadian Screen Award, Taiwan Golden Horse (twice), Cinema Eye Honors, among others and have been nominated at Sundance, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Emmys.
Chang's films have broadcast on international networks and streamers including Netflix, Amazon Prime, PBS, National Geographic, ARTE, ZDF, Channel 4, HBO, TMN, NHK, CBC, Bell Media, Tencent, iQiyi, Mubi, Kanopy, World Channel, VPRO Netherlands, TV2 Denmark, SBS Australia, RTS Switzerland and EBS Korea. He's received funding from major organizations like Sundance Institute, Doc Society, Telefilm, Ontario Creates, SODEC, Hot Docs, National Film Board and Canada Council for the Arts.
Chang is the recipient of the Don Haig Award, the Yolande and Pierre Perrault Award, and the Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada. In 2013, he was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Academy Awards / Oscars®.
Up the Yangtze and The Fruit Hunters were co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Eyesteelfilm.
For his full filmography, see IMDB.
To purchase Yung Chang’s films, click here in Canada and
here in the USA for Up the Yangtze 《沿江而上》 and China Heavyweight 《千錘百鍊》. Click here for The Fruit Hunters in the USA. Click here for This is Not a Movie and here for Wuhan Wuhan.
To contact Yung Chang, please click here.
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