Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present, and a Questionable Future

Chris Berry is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London. His publications include The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement (Hong Kong University Press, 2010), co-edited with Lisa Rofel and Lu Xinyu. He was also a co-investigator on the AHRC project, ‘Independent Cinema in China 1990–2017: State, Market, and Film Culture’ (2019–2024). Luke Robinson is Associate Professor in Film Studies in the School of Media, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and was a co-investigator on the AHRC project, ‘Independent Cinema in China 1990–2017: State, Market, and Film Culture’ (2019–2024). Sabrina Qiong Yu is Professor of Film and Chinese Studies at Newcastle University, UK. Her research and publications focus on Chinese-language cinema, stardom and performance, gender and sexuality, and censorship. She leads the UK Research Council-funded project (2019–2024) on Chinese independent cinema and the establishment of the Chinese Independent Film Archive. Lydia Wu is a Newcastle University Academic Track Fellow in Culture and Creative Arts. She leads a five-year research project titled Decolonising Film Curation: Asian Cinemas as Method, supported by Newcastle University. She is also the founder of the Association for Curators and Programmers of Asian Cinemas (ACPAC).