How the FIRST Festival Champions the Cause of Independent Chinese Cinema

Li Ziwei was taking the Mandarin Proficiency Test at Beijing’s Communication University of China when she first heard about plans to inaugurate what would evolve into the FIRST International Film Festival. That was 18 years ago and, as Li tells it, the landscape for cinema in China remained dominated solely by the major film and […]

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