Blog Tag - Documentary

Film Lovers, Attention: Chinatown Cha-Cha Is Screening in Beijing! 
Winter’s coming, dear reader, and like American author Ottessa Moshfegh, I harbored hopes of rest and relaxation. Surely my socials were bound to...
Get Inspired With Jane Goodall Documentary Screening This Friday (Apr 12)
Nature lovers and documentary enthusiasts in Beijing, you're in for a treat: This Friday (Apr 12) JinShang Yuan will be putting on a special...
New Documentary, "The Six," Details the Untold Legacy of Chinese Men Who Survived the Titanic
Some historical stories and figures have been so well-chronicled that it often seems like nothing more can be said. From WWII to The Beatles and the...
Sino Silver Screen: Two Generations Documented in the Deeply Moving 'Four Springs'
The debut film by a 45-year-old amateur filmmaker. A shooting process that extended over four years. Nearly 10 million tickets sold since its...
Documentary Featuring Ofo CEO Dai Wei Flops at the Box Office
A film documenting the experiences of Chinese tech founders including Ofo’s Dai Wei and Smartisan’s Luo Yonghao has turned out to be a box office...
DP:Throwback Thursday: The Golden Days of Yugong Yishan
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our eleven-year-strong blog archives to glance at the weird and wonderful of...
Chinese Documentary 'Twenty-Two' Shows How WWII Sex Slaves Live Now
 This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider. A documentary on the remaining Chinese women who were forced into sexual...
R Veteran Local Rocker Justin Richardson to Screen a Trailer for New Punk Scene Themed TV Series at Hot Cat Club March 4
Nearly 20 years after he founded one of China's earliest rock bands, Big Aeroplane, Justin Richardson is now training a camera on the music scene...
Doco on Shandong Farmer-Turned-Fashionista at French Cultural Centre Tonight
'Fairy Wang,’ otherwise known as Wang Shou-Ying, first soared to fame on Weibo in 2014 when she posted a series of selfies in which she posed in...
Magnifique! Director Talks Filming the Chinese Immigrant Experience in France
Plenty of documentarians strive for objectivity, but Sharon Deng opted for the opposite while shooting her new film. In fact her arrival in Paris – ...
Chai Jing's Environmental Documentary 'Under the Dome' Goes Off the Air
[Update 3/11: News magazine Caixin is hosting the film locally. Click here. H/T Kaiser Kuo.]  In less than a week, former China Central Television...
TV Show 'Passage to China' to Air During Spring Festival
We have found you something else to do during Chinese New Year that isn’t drinking or visiting a Temple Fair: shake things up and catch the pilot...
Roundhouse Kickstart The New Masters
Check out the teaser for this new documentary in production about the current state of Kung Fu and MMA in China. Titled, The New Masters, directors ...
Five Questions for Lance Crayon about "Spray Paint China"
Lance Crayon was born with a colorful name. By day a video producer for China Daily, Crayon filmed graffiti artists at work to create his first...
This week in entertainment, Feng Xiaogang’s new film Personal Tailor had a record opening, earning over $51 million in its first four days at the...