Yang Li Na (杨荔钠), born in Changchun, Jilin Province in 1972, is a Chinese mainland female director, screenwriter, producer and actress, graduated from the Department of Acting of the College of Military Culture of the National Defense University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA).
In 1999, she directed her first documentary film Old Man, which won the Asian New Wave Award of Excellence at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan, and the Jury Prize at the Festival de la Cinema Verité in France. 2000, she starred in the drama film Platform directed by Jia Zhangke. 2006, she directed the documentary film Dancing Together. 2008, she directed the documentary film Old An, which continued the theme of the documentary film Old Man. 2013, she directed the documentary film Old Man. The Old Man.In 2013, he directed the drama film Spring Dreams, which was selected for the main competition section of the 42nd Rotterdam International Film Festival and won the Special Attention Award at the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival.In 2016, he wrote and directed the drama film Spring Tide, which was shortlisted for the Golden Horse Venture Capital Conference.On April 3, 2019, the documentary film Maiden and Horses, which was directed by him, was launched.
Chinese name: Yang Li Na
Foreign name: Yang Tian Yi
Nationality: Chinese
Ethnicity: Han Chinese
Birthplace: Changchun City, Jilin Province
Date of birth: 1972
Occupation: Director, Actor, Playwright
Graduated from: People's Liberation Army, National Defense University, Military Representative works: Old Man, Platform, Home Video, Spring Dream, Spring Tide
Major achievements: Award of Excellence, Asian New Wave, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan
Jury Prize, French Real Film Festival
Special Attention Award, 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival
Special Attention Award, 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival
Special Attention Award, 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival
Special Attention Award, 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival Special Attention Award
Position: Producer
Character Experience
Yang Li Na studied dance as a teenager and worked as a dancer and program host.1991, he was admitted to the Department of Acting of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Fine Arts (now the School of Military Culture of the People's Liberation Army's National Defense University).1992, he joined the General Political Department's Theater Troupe to be a dramatist.1996, he began to engage in In 1996, he began to work on documentaries.
In 1999, he directed his first documentary "Old Man", which focused on a group of old men chatting all day long in Beijing, and won the Asian New Wave Award of Excellence at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan, the Jury Prize at the Real Film Festival in France, and the "Gold Prize" and "Audience Favorite Film" at the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival in Germany. Leipzig Documentary Film Festival (Germany), the "Gold Award" and the "Audience's Favorite Film" award. She completed her transition from an actress to a documentary filmmaker.
In 2000, she co-starred with Wang Hongwei and Zhao Tao in the drama film "Platform" directed by Jia Zhangke; in the same year, she directed the documentary film "Family Tape", in which she put the camera into her own family, showing the conflicts and emotional entanglements between her parents and her brother, members of the family; and in 2006, she directed the documentary "Dancing Together", which tells the emotional entanglements between the partners of a square dancer dancing in a park. In 2006, he directed the documentary "Dancing Together", which tells the story of square dancers in a park and the emotional entanglements between them.
In 2008, she directed the documentary Lao An, the closing film of the 1st Chinese Folk Women's Film Festival, which continued the theme of the documentary Old Man and told the story of Lao An, a ninety-year-old man in Beijing; in the same year, she directed the documentary My Neighbors Speak of Ghosts, which, although it was about the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, was still aimed at the elderly people who were cooling themselves in the neighborhood. .
In 2009, she collaborated with the French-German television station ARTE and directed the documentary "Weeds", a documentary about the growth of a group of orphans; in the same year, she directed the documentary "Wild Medicinal Herbs from Qingdao"; and in 2010, she worked as a producer for the variety show "The Amazing Race: Sprinting Through China Season 1".
In 2013, he directed the drama film Spring Dreams, co-starring Zhao Siyuan, Fu Jia, and Tang Zhiping, which featured largely non-professional actors and actresses, and the use of hand-held cinematography and simultaneous sound made the entire film as close to the truth as a documentary, and was selected for the Main Competition section of the 42nd Rotterdam International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 50th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, and won the Special Attention Award at the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival. Hong Kong International Film Festival Special Attention Award.In 2016, he co-directed the documentary "Their Youthful Confessions" with Huang Yushan; in the same year, he co-wrote and directed the drama film "Spring Tide" co-starring Hao Lei, Jin Yanling, and Huang Shanghe, which was shortlisted for the Golden Horse Venture Capital Conference, and won the Best Cinematography Award at the 22nd Shanghai Film Festival.
On April 3, 2019, the documentary film The Maiden and the Horse, which he directed, opened.
Major works
Director's works
Screenwriter's works
Producer's works
Photography works
Editing works
Entered in films
Standing Stage-2000, directed by Jia Zhangke
Award record
Personal evaluation
In the documentary film Old Man, it is precisely because Sodium Yang Lai has not received professional training that no technical means can be seen in her work. Instead of diminishing the expressive power of her work, this method of filming, which consists only of long shots and simultaneous sound, has brought the lives of the old men in the movie into the hearts of the audience, inspiring and moving the entire documentary film industry. The groups she focuses on in her works are mostly the elderly and women, and she often starts with micro-narratives to record the trivialities of their lives. Whether it is about the elderly or square dancing, divorce or history, her documentaries invariably focus on her own emotions and those of others (reviewed by Zhou Lei, Hebei University).