冯艳 Feng Yan

Feng Yan graduated in the 1980s from the Tianjin Foreign Language College, majored in Japanese literature. In 1988, she went to Japan to study environmental economics and lived there until 2002. In 1993, she went to the Yamagata documentary film festival as a member of the audience and encountered the writings and films of Ogawa Shishuke. Later she translated Harvesting Film by Ogawa Shishuke into Chinese, published at the Taiwan Yuanliu Publishing House. She started making her own documentaries during the same period.

Notable works: Bing'ai (2007)