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Rikun Zhu

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Rikun Zhu

Directing · Guangdong Province, China

Biography

Zhu Rikun is an independent film director and producer, and a film festival curator. He is the founder and artistica director for Fanhall Films and Fanhall Canter for Arts. Zhu Rikun was born in Guangdong province. He studied finance in Guanghua School of Management in Peking University from 1996 to 2000.In 2001 he founded Fanhall Films for film production, distribution and film festival organizing. He produced and distributed many important Chinese independent films that contributed a lot to the film art in China. Zhu Rikun established DOChina – Documentary Film Festival China in 2003, one of the earliest independent film festival in China,He is also the co-founder and program director of Beijing Independent Film Festival (since 2006 ). From 2005 to 2010 he is aslo the artistic director for LXT film fund. In 2007 he co-founded and joined Huangniutian Film Group.He has been the jury for Hong Kong International Film Festival (2012),Locarno Film Festvail (2011),CinDi-Seoul Digital Cinema Film Festival. From 2012,he turned into a film director and artist. His first short documentary film Cha Fang (The Questioning) was finished in 2013 and shown in more than twenty international film festivals and won a few prize like best short documentary award in Festival Dei Popoli. The Dossier is Zhu Rikun’s first feature length documentary film. Finished in 2014,it has been selected by Locarno Film Festival,Vancouver International Film Festival. His other films include Dust finished in 2014 and Welcome finished in 2016.

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