Maverick director steals the show

At a forum of the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival, Jiang Wen managed to steal the show by making an unannounced, last-minute appearance.

It was literally "last-minute" as he popped onstage during the last 10 minutes of the event.

The maverick filmmaker has been upstaging the whole film industry. In China, he is widely considered a pure genius who is simply unable to turn out uninteresting works. His upcoming release, Gone With the Bullets, is whetting cinephile appetite with every tidbit of gossip. But instead of promoting his own film, he announced at the SIFF forum that he will help produce five to 10 films for emerging directors.