- Liu Hao
Liu Hao (born 1968) is a Chinese filmmaker who has gained success in the early to mid 2000s.
Directorial career
A graduate of the
Beijing Film Academy , Liu started his career with the independent film, "Chen Mo and Mei Ting " (2002). The film, about a romance between flower-vendor boy and a massage parlor girl, was never released in China.cite web|url=http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/e2004/e200402/p52.htm|title=Art House Success, Chinese-Style| publisher= "China Today " | author=Tang Yuankai| date=2004|accessdate=2008-10-11] It nevertheless was screened abroad, and won a special mention at theBerlin International Film Festival [cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2002/03_preistraeger_2002/03_Preistraeger_2002.html|title=Berlinale - Archive - Annual Archives - 2002 - Prize Winners | publisher =Berlin International Film Festival |accessdate=2008-10-11] and aNETPAC award.Though never released in China, the film caught the attention of Chinese producers at the
China Film Group (CFG), who selected Liu to participate in the New Film Project, a joint investment by the CFG and the Peking University Kwans Group to fund new directors. With expectations that the film would be not only critically, but more importantly "commercially" successful, the China Film Group and the Peking University Kwans Group invested five million RMB to Liu for his project, "Two Great Sheep ", a rural comedy about a poor peasant couple being forced to take care of two sheep of a superior breed."Two Great Sheep" marked Liu as one of several Chinese "underground" directors who have now made films with China's state studios, a group that also included sixth generation directors
Jia Zhangke and Zhu Wen. [cite web|url=http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs21/fea_kraicer_beijing.htm|author=Kraicer, Shelly| publisher = "Cinema-Scope" (Vol. 21) |date=2004 |accessdate=2008-10-11]Filmography
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External links
*imdb name|id=1137104|name=Liu Hao (incorrectly listed as Hao "Lui")
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