Liu Hao (simplified Chinese: 刘浩; traditional Chinese: 劉浩;
pinyin: LÃu HÃ o; born 1968 in Shanghai) is a Chinese filmmaker. He
first rose to prominence in the early to mid-2000s.Born and raised in
Shanghai, Liu Hao spent much of his youth watching films by Ren Xudong
and Cheng Yin and, as he grew older, the works of the fifth generation
directors. In 1995, as his interest in film grew, Liu, now in his
mid-20s, decided to apply to the Beijing Film Academy. Though his
application was accepted, the Academy refused to allow him to start,
stating that 27 was simply too old. Undeterred, Liu raised ¥25,000
from banks to make a short Beijing Opera music video which went on to
win a prize in Shanghai. With his name on the map, Liu was allowed to
enter the 1997 incoming class of the Beijing Film Academy.After
graduating, Liu started his career with the independent film, Chen Mo
and Meiting (2002). The film, about a romance between flower-vendor
boy and a massage parlor girl, was never released in China. It
nevertheless was screened abroad, and won a special mention at the
Berlin International Film Festival and a NETPAC award.Though never
released in China, the film caught the attention of Chinese producers
at the China Film Group (CFG), who selected Liu to participate in the
New Film Project, a joint investment by the CFG and the Peking
University Kwans Group to fund new directors. With expectations that
the film would be not only critically, but more importantly
commercially successful, the China Film Group and the Peking
University Kwans Group invested ¥5 million to Liu for his project,
Two Great Sheep, a rural comedy about a poor peasant couple being
forced to take care of two sheep of a superior breed.
pinyin: LÃu HÃ o; born 1968 in Shanghai) is a Chinese filmmaker. He
first rose to prominence in the early to mid-2000s.Born and raised in
Shanghai, Liu Hao spent much of his youth watching films by Ren Xudong
and Cheng Yin and, as he grew older, the works of the fifth generation
directors. In 1995, as his interest in film grew, Liu, now in his
mid-20s, decided to apply to the Beijing Film Academy. Though his
application was accepted, the Academy refused to allow him to start,
stating that 27 was simply too old. Undeterred, Liu raised ¥25,000
from banks to make a short Beijing Opera music video which went on to
win a prize in Shanghai. With his name on the map, Liu was allowed to
enter the 1997 incoming class of the Beijing Film Academy.After
graduating, Liu started his career with the independent film, Chen Mo
and Meiting (2002). The film, about a romance between flower-vendor
boy and a massage parlor girl, was never released in China. It
nevertheless was screened abroad, and won a special mention at the
Berlin International Film Festival and a NETPAC award.Though never
released in China, the film caught the attention of Chinese producers
at the China Film Group (CFG), who selected Liu to participate in the
New Film Project, a joint investment by the CFG and the Peking
University Kwans Group to fund new directors. With expectations that
the film would be not only critically, but more importantly
commercially successful, the China Film Group and the Peking
University Kwans Group invested ¥5 million to Liu for his project,
Two Great Sheep, a rural comedy about a poor peasant couple being
forced to take care of two sheep of a superior breed.
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