Documenting trends
By Xu Lin | China Daily | Updated: 2013-12-25 07:03
Award-winning director Fan Lixin's documentaries trace the changes in Chinese society. Xu Lin finds out his motivations and dreams.
For documentary director Fan Lixin, 36, it's not easy to break his own record and surpass his past glory. His masterpiece Last Train Home in 2009 has garnered dozens of awards. For example, in 2012, Fan became the first Chinese to win the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, for both Best Feature Documentary and Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting - Long Form.
In September, The New York Times named him as one of the 20 Filmmakers to Watch, among those who were under the age of 40.
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