HOW IS YOUR FISH TODAY? | Directed by: Xiaolu Guo | |
While working on his latest screenplay in Beijing, Hui Rao is suffering from serious writer's block and begins to live the life of the character he is trying to create.
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Xiaolu Guo
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Xiaolu Guo, Director Filmmaker and novelist Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 in a fishing village in south China. She started publishing poems when she was 14. Guo has published seven books since receiving her MA from Beijing Film Academy. Guo won the nation's best screenwriter award for her first feature, Love in the Internet Age, in 1999. She wrote and directed The Concrete Revolution, winning Grand Prix at the 2005 International Human Rights Film Festival, Paris and Special Jury Prize at EBS International Documentary Festival, Seoul. HOW IS YOUR FISH TODAY? screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival and BritDoc Festival, among others. Guo's first English-translated novel, Village of Stone, was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her most recent novel, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, will be published in America and Europe in 2007. Read more about the film >> View more filmmakers >> |
