Huang Jianxin

Huang Jianxin was born in Xi'an on 14 June 1954, into a family originally from Hebei. He joined the army young, then studied at Northwest University. After joining the Xi'an studio, he worked there as an editor, script supervisor and then assistant director, trained at the Beijing Film Institute and returned to shoot in Xi'an in 1985. His films often mock the bureaucracy of the cities. From 2009 he co-directed, with Han Sanping, large-scale epics on the history of the Party, and he heads a production company of the China Film group.

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• CinemaThe Black Cannon Incident黑炮事件Huang Jianxin · 1985Cinema