活动 | 5.14 戛纳开幕在即，中美法电影人相聚哥大全球中心：中国独立电影如何保持独立、展望未来？

作为一位经常在国际上讲学的电影学者，2014年至2015年，他担任普林斯顿大学巴西研究的客座教授；2015年至2016年，担任哈佛大学电影研究的客座教授；2022年担任巴黎索邦大学的客座教授。他也曾在北京大学、东京艺术大学、布宜诺斯艾利斯电影大学、里约热内卢州立联邦大学、智利天主教大学和圣保罗大学任教。2016年5月，他在墨西哥国立自治大学获得“伯格曼奖”，并开展了题为“在美国电影边缘”的三场系列讲座。2024年春季，他担任北京清华大学的客座教授。

Richard Peña is an Emeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies at Columbia University, where he specializes in film theory and international cinema. From 1988 to 2012, he was the Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Director of the New York Film Festival. At the Film Society, Richard Peña organized retrospectives of many film artists, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Sacha Guitry, Abbas Kiarostami, King Hu, Robert Aldrich, Roberto Gavaldon, Ritwik Ghatak, Kira Muratova, Fei Mu, Valerio Zurlini, Youssef Chahine, Yasujiro Ozu, Carlos Saura, Nagisa Oshima and Amitabh Bachchan, as well as major film series devoted to African, Israeli, Cuban, Polish, Hungarian, Spanish, Chinese, Arab, Korean, Swedish, Turkish, German, Italian and Argentine cinema.

In 1995, together with Unifrance, he created "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema," the leading American showcase for new French cinema. A frequent lecturer on film internationally, in 2014-2015, he was a Visiting Professor in Brazilian Studies at Princeton; in 2015-2016 a Visiting Professor in Film Studies at Harvard; and in 2022 a Visiting Professor at La Sorbonne. He has also taught courses at Beijing University, Gedai Art Institute (Tokyo), la Universidad de Cine (Buenos Aires), the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Universidad Catolica de Chile, and the University of São Paulo. In May, 2016, he was the recipient of the "Cathedra Bergman" award at the UNAM in Mexico City, where he offered a three-part lecture series "On the Margins of American Cinema." He will be a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing in Spring, 2024.

乔青山曾担任好莱坞顶级经纪公司Creative Artists Agency（CAA）的董事总经理。他的制片作品包括参加2005年圣丹斯电影节的《ONE LAST DANCE》以及导演张艺谋的影片《影》（2019）。在CAA工作期间（2005-2018），乔青山代理了许多中国一线影视制作人，并策划了众多顶尖的电影项目。在他的带领下，CAA为《功夫之王》《疯狂的赛车》《人在囧途之泰囧》《海洋天堂》《长城》《我不是潘金莲》等电影提供了项目打包、融资和销售等工作，并签约了包括张艺谋、范冰冰、甄子丹在内的著名导演、演员等知名人士。

2018年，乔青山在北京创立了北京盐之影视传媒有限公司（Salty Pictures）。Salty Pictures的首部影片《营救野猪队》于2021年在平遥国际电影展首映，并于2022年8月在美国影院上映，讲述了2018年在泰国营救“野猪队”足球队的惊险故事。

Having helped to start the Beijing office of Creative Artists Agency, Greenberg has been at the forefront of Chinese entertainment for more than 20 years. As Managing Director of CAA China, Jonah Greenberg represented many of China's top filmmakers and packaged many of its top films until 2018, when he branched out to start Salty Pictures, a Beijing-based film and TV production company. Greenberg's producing credits include One Last Dance, which competed in the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and Shadow, from world-renowned filmmaker Zhang Yimou.

Salty's first picture is Cave Rescue (2021), which portrays the thrilling 2018 rescue of the "Wild Boars" soccer team in Thailand. The film premiered at the Pingyao International Film Festival in 2021 and came out in theaters in August 2022. Salty's first TV production is a three-episode docu-series about the only time that American and Chinese counternarcotics agencies worked together.

2017年创办新加坡左旋电影私人有限公司，以制片人的身份参与中国与亚洲电影项目：2017年《梧桐树》（山形电影节），2019年《树房子》（洛迦诺电影节），2021年《暮色撩人》（柏林电影节），2023年《Republic》（釜山电影节）；以剪辑师的身份参与《轻松+愉快》《清水里的刀子》《之子于归》等国际获奖电影的后期制作；亚洲电影共同体“新亚洲影志”的创始人，开展21期电影工作坊，训练了超过300位独立电影人。庐舍社团的联合发起人，开展剪辑驻留计划“庐舍之春”，支持在困境中创作的女性电影人。

Xiao-Dong Guo is a film producer, editor, and curator. He founded Levo Films Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) and produced Caro Mio Ben (My Dear Beloved) (Yamagata IDFF 2017), The Tree House (Locarno 2019), Les Attendants (Berlinale 2021), Republic (Busan IFF 2023) etc. He edited award-winning films such as Free & Easy, Knife in the Clear Water, and Lush Reeds. He is the founder of the New Asian Filmmakers Collective. He has organized 21 workshops in Asian countries and trained more than 300 local independent filmmakers since 2018. He is the co-founder of China based film community LAST Commune, known for its editing residency to support female directors in difficulties.

Rongfei Guo is a Chinese award-winning filmmaker who graduated from New York University, where she majored in Documentary. Her films have been selected for over 40 international film festivals and won 15 awards. She was awarded the Student Academy Award in 2016. She is currently developing her debut feature, Dear Red, which has been selected for the 2021 Festival De Cannes Cinefondation Residence, Tokyo Talent, and CFDG Young Director Support Program. Her short film Fairy Tales won the Best Short Documentary Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival and Asian American Film Festival. 

During COVID-19, she made her first musical short film, Girl with a Thermal Gun, which won the Best Narrative Short Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Special Jury Award at the Flickerfest International Film Festival, and was a 2022 Oscar contender.

Aladin has been involved in the factual content industry (documentaries, podcasts, news) as a producer for more than 10 years. He first made historical documentaries in Paris and moved to Beijing in 2017. Since then, he has created more than a dozen projects for Chinese and international audiences, such as the feature-length documentary Let the World Look at Me (2023 - Director Fan Lixin) and the documentary series Decoding the Miracle of Justice (2023 - Director Zhang Nan). He has also translated various Chinese feature films.

Lastly, he is the host of the podcast "Middle-earth - China's Cultural Industry," which ranks in the top 10% of the most downloaded podcasts in the world. In 2023, he served as a judge for the DocLab selection of the 2023 FIRST Film Festival.

A graduate of Columbia University, Sciences Po, and Sorbonne University, where she studied Economics, Philosophy, and Film, Héloïse Garry has gathered work experience in the film industry across Europe, Asia, and the United States. She has served within the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to carry out missions in Singapore and the United States in the realm of cultural diplomacy, fostering collaborations between French and international artists. She assisted in the curation of the first-ever retrospective devoted to Agnès Varda in Singapore and supervised the Nobel-Prize winner Annie Ernaux's visit to New York and promotion of her film Nos Années Super 8 at the New York Film Festival, where she also served as translator.

A former recipient of the Gotham Film & Media Institute International Fellowship, she advised the institution in the promotion and financing of international independent film projects in the United States. Currently a Yenching Scholar at Peking University and a member of CINGS, her research focuses on the cinema of Jia Zhangke and the contemporary Chinese film industry. She was a visiting researcher at the Waseda Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, where she examined the connections between the Chinese and Japanese film industries.