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Nanfu Wang

Name in Native Language: "王男栿" (ZH-CN)
Film Director | * 1985 (39) | Jiangxi (People's Republic of China)
Nanfu Wang (born 1985) is a Chinese-born American filmmaker. Her debut film Hooligan Sparrow premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2017. Her second film, I Am Another You, premiered at SXSW Film Festival in 2017 and won two special jury awards, and her third film, One Child Nation, won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Wang is the recipient of a 2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Filmmaking, from the Vilcek Foundation. ()
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Nanfu Wang is an award-winning filmmaker based in New York City. Her feature documentary I Am Another You premiered at SXSW 2017 in the documentary feature competition. Her feature debut Hooligan Sparrow was shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award® for best documentary feature. After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2016, Hooligan Sparrow opened theatrically across North America and was later released on POV, Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes. It has won over twenty awards internationally including a Cinema Eye Honor, a George Polk Award, and the Truer than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. Wang was honored by the IDA with the 2016 Emerging Filmmaker Award.

Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Crime

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Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — count ...

One Child Nation

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2019 | 3.6/5 | 1h 28min
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The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues to Hainan Province in southern China to protest th ...

Hooligan Sparrow

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2016 | 3.7/5 | 1h 24min
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This documentary recounts the experiences of people on the ground in the earliest days of the novel coronavirus and the way two countries dealt with its initial spread, from the first days of the outb ...

In the Same Breath

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2021 | 3.6/5 | 1h 35min
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Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society's rules and intentionally chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the meaning of personal freedom – and its limi ...

I Am Another You

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2017 | 3.8/5 | 1h 20min
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1988- | 3.4/5 | 1h per episode
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Awards & Nominations for Nanfu Wang

George Polk Awards MacArthur Fellows Program 100 Women (BBC)
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Movies with Nanfu Wang as Actress(1)

as herself2019 One Child Nation

Movies with Nanfu Wang as Crew(18)

Production/Consulting Producer2022 Liquor Store Dreams
Directing/Director2021 In the Same Breath
Editing/Editor2021 In the Same Breath
Production/Producer2021 In the Same Breath
Camera/Director of Photography2019 One Child Nation
Directing/Director2019 One Child Nation
Editing/Editor2019 One Child Nation
Production/Producer2019 One Child Nation
Directing/Director2018 Out of Many, One
Camera/Director of Photography2017 I Am Another You
Directing/Director2017 I Am Another You
Editing/Editor2017 I Am Another You
Production/Producer2017 I Am Another You
Camera/Director of Photography2016 Hooligan Sparrow
Directing/Director2016 Hooligan Sparrow
Editing/Editor2016 Hooligan Sparrow
Production/Producer2016 Hooligan Sparrow
Writing/Writer2016 Hooligan Sparrow

TV Shows/Series with Nanfu Wang as Crew(3)

Production/Executive Producer2022 Mind Over Murder
Directing/Director2022 Mind Over Murder
Creator/Creator2022 Mind Over Murder

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Born: 1985 in Jiangxi (People's Republic of China) (current age: 39 years)
Educated at: New York University
Other names for Nanfu Wang (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Ван Наньфу"
"Наньфу Ванг"
Nanfu Wang frequently works together with these people:
Nathan Halpern (7x, Crew)
Michael Shade (5x, Crew)
So Yun Um (5x, Crew)
Chris Ruggiero (4x, Crew)
Carolyn Hepburn (3x, Crew)
Zhang Jia-Ling (3x, Crew)
Ron Bochar (3x, Crew)
Julie Goldman (2x, Crew)
Christopher Clements (2x, Crew)
Lisa Heller (1x, Crew)
Danny Park (1x, Cast)
Andrea Berman (1x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1014170, Added: 11/28/2018, Last updated: 04/25/2024