Vivian Qu
| Vivian Qu | |||
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| Chinese name | 文晏 (traditional) | ||
| Born | Beijing, China | ||
| Occupation | Film director, film producer | ||
| Years active | 2000s–present | ||
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Jury Grand Prize
2013 Trap Street
Boston International Film Festival
Vivian Qu, or Wen Yan (Chinese: 文晏), is a Chinese film producer, director and screenwriter. She directed the award-winning 2013 film Trap Street. She also produced Night Train, released in 2007, Knitting, in 2008, and Black Coal, Thin Ice in 2014, which won that year's Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Qu was born and brought up in Beijing, China. She later studied 'Art History and Fine Arts' in New York City. She says that the subject of cinema combined all her interests, in "writing, photography, music... together in one art form".
In 1983, Qu returned to Beijing, in order to become a film producer, and to pursue her interest in helping independent filmmakers. She says that she became aware that whilst filmmakers in China have good ideas and scripts, they lack the resources to produce or market their films for an international audience. In 2007, she began producing films in collaboration with Chinese film director Diao Yi'Nan, and first produced Night Train, the story of a young, widowed prison guard who takes a night train to a dating service, as she feels lonely and isolated. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. The following year, she produced the film Knitting, a romantic drama told from a female perspective and based on the Chinese myth of the cowherd and the weaver girl, as told in the Qixi Festival. In 2013, she produced Longing for the Rain, the story of a woman living in a loveless marriage until a man appears in her dreams, and with whom she finds she cannot live without.
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