Director and Cinematographer:
YU Haibo 余海波 is a filmmaker and a well-known Chinese social photographer. He’s the Director of Shenzhen Professional Photographers Association and the Chief Photo Editor of Shenzhen Economic Daily. His most prominent photo story China Dafen Oil Painting Village won the 49th World Press Photography Contest 2006, and was collected by San Francisco Modern Art Museum, V&A Museum, London. Yu is the pioneer in surrealism photography in China for his work “on the other riverside of the illusion chain” which won the top prize at the 15th National Photography Exhibition in 1988. Since 1989, he has been working on documentary photography, and his photo stories including “Tibet”, “Music Youth”, “China’s urban expansion”, have won many prizes and been exhibited internationally. Yu published a book Living in China’s Shenzhen (2008), and a photo-essay film One Man’s Shenzhen (2012).
Filmography
2016 China’s Van Goghs (Feature documentary film)
2012 One Man’s Shenzhen (Photo-essay film)
Producer and co-director:
Kiki Tianqi Yu 余天琦 is a documentary producer, director, and also a film scholar, currently associate professor of Film Studies at USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry, base in Shanghai. Her films include feature length documentary China’s van Goghs (2016), which was premiered at IDFA 2016 and entered the 48th Vision Du Reel 2017. Her other award-winning films include Photographing Shenzhen (2007) (Discovery), and nonfiction moving image work Memory of Home (2009) collected by DSLCollection, Tube (2008) and Children of Tibet (2007).
She publishes on Chinese documentary, amateur cinema, camera activism, and cinematic memory in Studies in Documentary Film, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, among others. She is the co-editor of China’s iGeneration(Bloomsbury, 2014) and the author of the forthcoming monograph ‘My’ Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in 21st Century China (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Yu holds a PhD in Cinema Studies (Documentary) from the University of Westminster, London, and an MPhil in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is the daughter of Yu Haibo.
Filmography
2016 China’s Van Goghs (Feature documentary film)
2009 Memory of Home (Exhibition film)
2007 Photographing Shenzhen (Discovery Channel)