A Film Is Stopped (1994)

ALL 01/01/1994 (zh) 55 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1994
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    停机
  • Original language
    zh
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a chaotic period in November of 1993, when production suddenly halted on Zhang Yuan's TV film adaptation of a popular novel, Chicken Feathers, after the Chinese Film Bureau announced that Zhang could no longer direct the film due to submitting his previous independent feature, 1992's Beijing Bastards, to a film festival in Japan without receiving the proper authorization to do so. Ning's documentary features anguished meetings between the Chicken Feather's production crew as they debate replacing Zhang with another director, along with testimonials on the state of censorship in Chinese independent cinema of the early '90s from Wu Wenguang, Tang Danian, He Jianjun, Cui Jian, and others.

  1. Dai Ning

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Li Xiaoshan

    Editor



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A Film Is Stopped (1994) 55 Min

ALL 01/01/1994 (zh)
  • Release 01/01/1994
  • Production
  • Original title 停机
  • zh
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a chaotic period in November of 1993, when production suddenly halted on Zhang Yuan's TV film adaptation of a popular novel, Chicken Feathers, after the Chinese Film Bureau announced that Zhang could no longer direct the film due to submitting his previous independent feature, 1992's Beijing Bastards, to a film festival in Japan without receiving the proper authorization to do so. Ning's documentary features anguished meetings between the Chicken Feather's production crew as they debate replacing Zhang with another director, along with testimonials on the state of censorship in Chinese independent cinema of the early '90s from Wu Wenguang, Tang Danian, He Jianjun, Cui Jian, and others.

  1. Dai Ning

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Li Xiaoshan

    Editor

  4. Chen Qiang, Dai Ning

    Producer