Cui Zi'en

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| name = Cui Zi'en

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| birth_date = 1958

| birth_place = Harbin, China| alma_mater = Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

| occupation = Film producer
Film director

| years_active = 1990s–present

| awards = {{Awards|award=Radio Literature Award |year=2001 |title=Uncle's Past}}
(IGLHRC) International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Felipa Award

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Cui Zi'en ({{zh|c=崔子恩|p=Cuī Zǐ'ēn}}), born 1958, in Harbin in the People's Republic of China, is a film director, producer, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an outspoken LGBT activist based in Beijing. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with an MA in literature and now is an associate professor at the Film Research Institute of the Beijing Film Academy.

Cui Zi'en is one of the avant-garde DV makers in Chinese underground film. He has published nine novels in China and Hong Kong, one of which, Uncle's Past, won the 2001 Radio Literature Award in Germany. In the same year, he founded the Beijing Queer Film Festival, the first LGBT film festival in mainland China.{{cite web |author=Tin Tran |date=25 May 2011 |title=Gays In China: Beijing Queer Film Festival Goes Off Without A Hitch |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/18/gays-in-china-beijing-que_n_217486.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119001805/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/18/gays-in-china-beijing-que_n_217486.html |archive-date=19 January 2012 |accessdate=13 February 2016 |work=The Huffington Post}} He is also the author of books on criticism and theory, as well as a columnist for magazines.