Jia Zhangke
- January 4, 2024
- Director
Quick Facts
Jia Zhangke Biography
| Name | Jia Zhangke |
| Birthday | May 24 |
| Birth Year | 1970 |
| Place Of Birth | Fenyang |
| Birth Country | China |
| Birth Sign | Taurus |
| Parents | Zhang Ruiying, Jia Liankai |
| Spouse | Zhao Tao , Jiong Zhu |
Jia Zhangke is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on May 24, 1970 in Fenyang, China. The director of Still Life, which won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion Award in 2006.
The film he directed in 2008 24 City featured actress His 2008 film 24 City featured actress Joan Chen of The Last Emperor fame. of The Last Emperor fame.
Jia Zhangke was born in Fenyang, Shanxi, China. His interest in film began in the early 1990s, as an art student at the Shanxi University in Taiyuan. On a lark, Jia attended a screening of Chen Kaige’s masterpiece, Yellow Earth. The film, according to Jia, was life changing, and convinced the young man that he wanted to be a director. Jia would eventually make it to China’s prestigious Beijing Film Academy in 1993, as a film theory major, giving him access to both western and eastern classics, as well as an extensive film library.
While a student at the Beijing Film Academy, Jia would make three short films to hone his skills. The first, a ten-minute short documentary on tourists in Tiananmen Square entitled One Day in Beijing, was made in 1994 on self-raised funds. Though Jia has referred to his first directorial effort as inconsequential and “naive”, he also described the short day and a half shoot as “excitement…difficult to express in words.” But it was Jia’s second directorial effort, the short film Xiao Shan Going Home (1995), that would bring him to the attention of the film world. It was a film that helped establish Jia’s style and thematic interests and, in Jia’s words, was a film that “truly marks the beginning of my career as a filmmaker.” Xiao Shan would eventually screen abroad where it won a top prize at the 1997 Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards. More significantly, the film’s success brought Jia in contact with cinematographer Yu Lik-wai and producer Li Kit Ming, two men who along with producer/editor Chow Keung would come to form Jia Zhangke’s “core…creative team.” With their support, Jia was able to begin work on Xiao Wu, which would become his first feature film. Before graduating, however, Jia would make one more short film, Du Du (1996), a film about a female college student faced with several life-changing decisions. The film, little seen and rarely available, was for Jia an exercise of experimentation and technique, as it was filmed without a script. For Jia, the film was an important learning experience, even if he was “not terribly proud” of the end result.
He got married to the actress Tao Zhao in January 2012.
Jia Zhangke Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Director |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jia Zhangke is one of the richest Director from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jia Zhangke 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He studied Film Theory at the Beijing Film Academy and also made three films that were based on his native Province of Shanxi.
His accomplishments independently of China’s state-run cinema bureaucracy prompted NPR movie critic John Powers to name him as one of the most influential film makers of his time. He was an influential actor in the Chinese Sixth Generation of cinema.
Jia Zhangke (born 24 May 1970) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the “Sixth Generation” movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Wang Quan’an and Zhang Yuan.
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Who is Jia Zhangke Dating?
According to our records, Jia Zhangke married to Zhao Tao , Jiong Zhu. As of December 1, 2023, Jia Zhangke’s is not dating anyone.
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Jia’s early films, a loose trilogy based in his home province of Shanxi, were made outside of China’s state-run film bureaucracy, and therefore are considered “underground” films. Beginning in 2004, Jia’s status in his own country rose when he was allowed to direct his fourth feature film, The World, with state approval.
Facts & Trivia
Jia Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Jia Zhangke celebrates birthday on May 24 of every year.
Jia has commented in the past on the influence of filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Yasujirō Ozu on his work. I Wish I Knew, a 2010 documentary of his, features a segment about the 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, by Michelangelo Antonioni – another filmmaker to whose work Jia’s own has been compared.