Violet Du Feng

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Violet Du Feng

Violet Du Feng is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker born and raised in Shanghai and now based in New York. She began her career as a co-producer on Nanking (2007), which won a Sundance Special Jury Award and became the highest-grossing documentary in China's history. She went on to direct and produce Hidden Letters (2022), an Oscar-shortlisted, Emmy- and Peabody-nominated fil…

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MainelandMaineland · 2017
Maineland
★ 4.62017
MovieDocumentary
Chinese teenagers from the wealthy elite, with big American dreams, settle into a boarding school in small-town Maine. As their fuzzy visions of the American dream slowly gain more clarity, their relationship to home takes on a poignant new aspect.
Hidden LettersHidden Letters · 2024
Hidden Letters
★ 9.02024
MovieDocumentary
In modern day China, two women strive to preserve Nushu, an ancient secret language which bonded generations of Chinese women together through centuries of oppression in a clandestine support system of sisterhood and survival.
Two Sides of SurvivalTwo Sides of Survival · 2021
Two Sides of Survival
2021
MovieDocumentary
The film brings together two World War II-era stories of resilience and survival: one from Nanjing, where Japanese soldiers massacred Chinese civilians, and the other from Germany, where the Nazi regime sought the systematic murder of Jewish populations in Europe and beyond.
Please Remember MePlease Remember Me · 2017
Please Remember Me
★ 7.52017
MovieDocumentary
Hardly could anybody tell that 87 years old Lou has had Alzheimer’s disease. Over the years, Lou has forgotten almost everyone but firmly believes that 88 years old Feng is the one she is going to spend the rest of her life with.
Singing in the WildernessSinging in the Wilderness · 2021
Singing in the Wilderness
★ 7.52021
MovieDocumentary
After hiding in the mountains for a century, a Miao ethnic village choir is discovered by an outsider and becomes a national sensation. Two young Miaos and all the villagers must reconcile their faith, identity, and love with the real world of China.
The Dating GameThe Dating Game · 2025
The Dating Game
2025
MovieDocumentary
In a country where eligible men greatly outnumber women, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches in what may be their last-ditch effort to find love.
Tigre GenteTigre Gente · 2021
Tigre Gente
★ 9.02021
MovieDocumentary
The Madidi National Park—located in Bolivia—is home to rich and treasured natural land: the most biodiverse in the whole planet. The Director of the Madidi Park, Marcos Uzquiano, is a determined ranger who deems his service to this kind of preservation work a “calling.” In particular, Marcos is resolute in tracking down the illicit jaguar trade that has been pervasive in Bolivia, and disrupting this unrelenting eradication of an entire species.
Night of NightsNight of Nights · 2024
Night of Nights
2024
MovieDocumentary
A nocturnal and semi-surrealistic science fiction portrait of life in two Asian megacities after 2020, shot at night with an hypnotic intensity and with the lens pointing to the future.

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