Posts Tagged ‘Lifeng Wang’

fmx/09 recap

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I had the honor and pleasure of hosting the fmx/09 “Focus on China” spotlight program, featuring animation companies from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Read all about it on the Animation Options press page.

Cultural Revolution, Take Two

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Ramin Zahed, Editor-in-Chief of Animation Magazine, invited me to write a byline piece sharing my personal insights on the revolution in original Chinese animated content.

That an overzealous young proofreader “corrected” the reference of Russian live-action filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky to Russian animator Genndy Tartakovsky only goes to show the unexpected sources that contemporary Chinese animation directors draw upon. ;-)

Kevin Geiger
Beijing