Tang Dan (film director)

Tang Dan
唐丹
Born (1975-09-11) September 11, 1975 (age 49)
Chengdu, Sichuan
Alma materSichuan University, Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg
OccupationFilm director
Years active2005 - present

Tang Dan (Chinese: 唐丹) (born 11 September 1975) is a film director from mainland China who studied in Germany.

Biography

Early life and education

Tang Dan was born 11 September 1975 in Chengdu, Sichuan. She graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1998, having studied art and painting. In 1997–1998 she was an exchange student at Kunsthochschule Kassel. In 2000 Tang went to the University of Wuppertal to study communication design with a specialization in photo and film. In 2001–2002 she was a guest student at Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin. She was admitted to the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg in 2003, where her teachers included the influential gay rights activist Rosa von Praunheim. She completed a master's degree in film directing at Konrad Wolf in 2007.[1]

Filmography

  • 2005 Make Love in Heaven, script and direction, 25:30 min. Student film about the first sexual experience of a girl who wants to become an artist.[2][3][4]
  • 2006 The Autumn for Guoguo (pinyin: Guoguo de qiutian), starring Boru Ren and Yi Guo[5]
  • 2008 Dream Team (Chinese: 梦之队; pinyin: Mèng zhī duì), a family drama where a football coach turns to coaching tug-of-war to primary school kids.[6]
  • 2009 Feathered Fan and Silken Ribbon, written and directed by Wieland Schulz-Keil and Tang Dan, and edited by Volker Schaner. A documentary about classical Peking opera in modern Beijing.[7][8]
  • 2011 I Phone You (Chinese: 爱封了; pinyin: Ài fēngle) a romantic comedy co-written with Wolfgang Kohlhaase and starring Florian Lukas and Jiang Yiyan.[9][10][11]
  • 2012 The Secret Garden (Chinese: 秘密花園; pinyin: Mìmì huāyuán), a romantic comedy starring Wallace Chung and Weiwei Tan[12]

References

  1. ^ "Dan Tang". filmportal.de. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Make Love in Heaven". Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Archived from the original on 19 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Make Love In Heaven". Crew United.
  4. ^ Kedves, Jan (20 June 2006). "Liebe ist eine Ohrfeige" [Love is a slap in the face]. Die Tageszeitung (in German). Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  5. ^ The Autumn for Guoguo at IMDb
  6. ^ Dream Team at IMDb
  7. ^ "Feathered Fan and Silken Ribbon". Archived from the original on 6 March 2012.
  8. ^ Feathered Fan and Silken Ribbon at IMDb
  9. ^ "Tang Dan co-writes film script with German director". China Daily. 13 October 2011.
  10. ^ Messias, Hans; Koll, Horst Peter, eds. (4 April 2012). Lexikon des internationalen Films - Filmjahr 2011 [Lexicon of International Films - Film Year 2011] (in German). Schüren Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89472-797-0.
  11. ^ Kohlhaase, Wolfgang (17 January 2021). Um die Ecke in die Welt: Über Filme und Freunde [Around the corner into the world: About movies and friends] (in German). Neues Leben. p. 381. ISBN 978-3-35550-014-2.
  12. ^ The Secret Garden at IMDb