Li Ruijun
{{short description|Chinese film director and screenwriter (born 1983)}}
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Li Ruijun ({{zh|t=李睿珺|p=Lǐ Ruìjùn}}, born 1983) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter.{{cite journal |language=zh |author1=Feng Yingxing ({{lang|zh|冯颖星}}) |script-title=zh:隐入尘烟，失语者的爱情 |trans-title=Return to Dust: the love of the speechless |volume=402 |journal=Nothing but Storytelling |location=Beijing |publisher=People's Publishing House |year=2022 |pages=106–112 |issn=1001-6635}}{{cite web|last1=Ma|first1=Karen|title=Tackling the Issue of Ageing in Rural China: An Interview with Li Ruijun|url=http://www.vcinemashow.com/tackling-the-issue-of-ageing-in-rural-china-an-interview-with-li-ruijun/|website=VCinema|accessdate=7 October 2016|date=7 June 2016}}
Life and career
Born in Gansu province in 1983, Li Ruijun studied music and painting at the age of fourteen.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}} In 2003, he graduated from the China National Ministry of Radio, Film, and Television. From 2003 to 2006, he worked as director for television stations and television program providers.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}
He started work on his debut feature film, The Summer Solstice, in 2006, writing the script as well as directing it, and finished the post-production in 2007.{{cite web|title=Independent Film Screening: The Summer Solstice|url=http://www.rockbundartmuseum.org/en/event/overview/485ers|website=Rockbund Art Museum|accessdate=22 October 2016|date=2012}} He has since made five more feature films as well as one short.
Filmography
- The Summer Solstice 夏至 (2007) – director, screenwriter, actor, editor, production manager
- The Old Donkey 老驢頭 (2010) – director, screenwriter, composer, editor
- Fly with the Crane 告訴他們,我乘白鶴去了 (2012) – director, screenwriter
- Present 禮物 (short film, 2014) – director, screenwriter
- One Day (segment: "Present") 有一天 (segment: "禮物") (2014) – director, screenwriter
- River Road ({{lang|zh|家在水草豐茂的地方}}) (2015) – director, screenwriter, editor
- Walking Past the Future (2017) – director, screenwriter
- Return to Dust (2022) – director, screenwriter, editor.{{Cite web |title=Yin Ru Chen Yan {{!}} Return to Dust |url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/archive-selection/archive-2022/programme/detail/202201933.html |access-date=29 August 2022 |website=www.berlinale.de}}
Awards
- 46th Brasilia Film Festival: Best Director – Fly with the Crane (2013)
- 5th China Film Director's Guild Awards: Best Young Director – Fly with the Crane{{cite web|first1=Kevin|last1=Ma|title=China Film Directors' Guild self-criticises|url=http://newfilmbizasia.herokuapp.com/news/china-film-directors-guild-self-criticises|website=Film Business Asia|accessdate=2 October 2016|date=10 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003053539/http://newfilmbizasia.herokuapp.com/news/china-film-directors-guild-self-criticises|archivedate=3 October 2016}} (2014)
- 67th Valladolid International Film Festival: Golden Spike – Return to Dust{{cite web|first=Alfonso|last=Rivera|title=Return to Dust, by Chinese director Li Ruijun, receives the Golden Spike at Seminci|website=cineuropa|date=31 October 2022|url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/432760/|accessdate=30 April 2014}} (2022)
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|4772581|Li Ruijun}}
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Category:Film directors from Gansu
Category:Screenwriters from Gansu
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