Evans Chan
Evans CHAN is a New York and Hong Kong-based film critic, librettist and independent filmmaker. He has made more than a dozen fiction and documentary films, which have been screened at the Berlin, Rotterdam and Vancouver festivals, among others. He was the librettist for the opera Datong: The Chinese Utopia, which is based on his documentary Datong: The Great Society (2011). A collection of essays and short stories by Chan has appeared, entitled Dream Tenant. We Have Boots has its world premiere at IFFR 2020.
Filmography
(selection) To Liv(e) (1992), Cuo ai/Crossings (1994), Journey to Beijing (1998, doc), The Map of Sex and Love (2001), Bauhinia (2002), The Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian (2002), Sorceress of the New Piano (2004), Datong: The Great Society (2011, docu-drama), The Rose of the Name: Writing Hong Kong (2014), Raise the Umbrellas (2016, doc), We Have Boots (2020)
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