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Zhou Ziyang

Zhou Ziyang, born in Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is a director and screenwriter in Mainland China.

In 2016, the movie script "Old Beast" written by him was selected as the 10th FIRST Youth Film Festival Annual Venture Capital and won the Alibaba Pictures A Plan Script Fund Award. In 2017, the feature film "Old Beast" directed by him was released. The film won the Best Original Screenplay Award at the 54th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards and the Asian Future Award-Special Award at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival. He won the The 9th China Film Directors Association Annual Young Director Award. In October 2019, he served as the director of the movie "Wuhai".

Chinese name: Zhou Ziyang

Nationality: Chinese

Birthplace: Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Occupation: Director, screenwriter

Representative Work: Old Beast

Main Achievements: Best Original Screenplay Award at the 54th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards

Best New Director at the 54th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards ( Nominated)

The 30th Tokyo International Film Festival Asia Future Award-Special Award

The 9th China Film Directors Association Annual Young Director Award

Character Experience< /p>

In the 1910s, Zhou Ziyang, who was born in art design, entered the world of movies due to an accidental short film opportunity. Later, he joined Dongchun Pictures. In 2013, he resigned from Dongchun Pictures and began to officially write the movie script "Old Beast". In 2016, the movie script "Old Beast" written by him was selected as the 10th FIRST Youth Film Festival Annual Venture Capital and won the Alibaba Pictures A Plan Script Fund Award.

On October 28, 2017, the drama film "Old Beast" directed by him was released. The film is set in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and tells the story of the protagonist Lao Yang, who has changed from a wealthy class in the era of wealth to bankruptcy and unemployment. The story of a homeless man who was kidnapped by his children because he misappropriated his wife's surgery money and took his children to court out of anger won the Best Original Screenplay Award at the 54th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards and the Asian Future Award at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival - Special Award, he won the 9th China Film Directors Association Annual Young Director Award for this film.

Main works

Screenwriting works

Directing works

Award-winning records

Character evaluation

< p>Zhou Ziyang is a very talented director. His scripts are not only well written, but also have full characters. He is not a professional filmmaker, but his use of images is more bold, and he has a natural and powerful force. In the movie "Old Beast", the audience will be shocked by Zhou Ziyang's unique introspective perspective, which breaks away from the narrative themes and perspectives of usual debut films, while his attitude as an author remains clear and powerful. In addition, it also clearly reflects what Zhou Ziyang calls the mixture of realism and literary temperament. Although the director cuts in from a small perspective, the display of humanistic and social sentiments is real and delicate (Comprehensive reviews by Tumen, Global Network, producer Liu Xuan, "Film Literature", and "Sichuan Drama").