Xie Fei

Xie Fei Chinese 谢飞 pinyin Xiè Fēi born August 14 1942 is a Chinese film director screenwriter producer film professor and film critic1 Xie was born August 14 in Yanan city of Shaanxi Province China and went to primary school and high school in Beijing In high school he began to love drama and cinema He wrote journals after watching films and played roles in school theater group In 1960 he was enrolled in Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy and graduated in 1965 Xie Fei has taught at his alma mater as an instructor and professor since and was the vicepresident of that institution from 19851989 Although he has not made many films due to The Great Culture Revolution 19661976 and teaching career most of his works are critics favorites Several of them won international film festival awards His A Girl From Human 1986 and A Mongolian Tale 1995 were commercially distributed American movie theaters After Song of Tibet 2000 was censored for 6 months before releasing in a few theaters he stopped making films at the age of 59 He has worked as producer and on film festival juries in China and abroad In 2001 he directed 23 episodes of TV drama Sun Rise adapted from a play by noted Chinese playwright Cao YU 曹禺19101996 On December 15 2012 Xie Fei posted an open letter on Weibo a popular Chinese Blog calling for changes of film censorship and won great support from film makers