Morning Sun | About the Filmmakers MORNING SUN (2003) Produced and Directed by Carma Hinton, Geremie Barmé, Richard Gordon About the Long Bow Group Produced and Directed by Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon, and Edited by David Carnochan: THE GATE OF HEAVENLY
PEACE (1995), a documentary exploring the 1989 protest movement
in the context of the political habits and attitudes that have come
to inform public life in China over the past century. THE GATE OF
HEAVENLY PEACE has received several awards, including a George Foster
Peabody Award, and both the International Critics Prize and Best Social
and Political Documentary at the Banff Television Festival. (Associate
Director and Co-Writer Geremie Barmé) GUONIAN
(2003), a sixteen-minute film about rural New Year's festivities and
rituals in southern China. SELECTED AWARDS
& FEATURED SCREENINGS 2004-2003: MORNING SUN: John E.
O'Connor Film Award - American Historical Association; Berlin Film Festival,
Hong Kong Film Festival, Banff Television Festival, San Francisco International
Asian American Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival, SilverDocs (AFI/Discovery
Channel), Vancouver Film Festival, Film Forum - New York, Museum of
Fine Arts - Boston. About the Directors of Morning Sun:Director, Producer, and Interviewer Carma Hinton was born in Beijing in 1949, and lived there until she was twenty-one; Chinese is her first language and culture. She is a scholar as well as a filmmaker. She has a Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University and is a Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University. She has also taught courses in Chinese language, history, and culture at Swarthmore, Middlebury, Wellesley and Northeastern. The Morning Sun project has been deeply influenced by Hinton’s personal and first-hand understanding of the politics and history of the period, and her direct witness of and participation in many of the events of the Cultural Revolution, which began when she was sixteen years old. All interviews were conducted by Hinton in Chinese. Director, Producer and Writer Geremie R. Barmé lived and studied in China during the last years of the Cultural Revolution. He is the author of two collections of essays in Chinese, coeditor of Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience (New York, 1988) and New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices (New York, 1992). He is the author of Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader (New York, 1996), In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture (New York, 1999), and An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975) (Berkeley, 2002), and editor and main translator of the journalist Sang Ye’s latest volume of Chinese oral histories, Chairman Mao’s Ark: The People on the People’s Republic (forthcoming, 2003). His many translations include Ba Jin’s essays, Random Thoughts (Hong Kong, 1984), and the Cultural Revolution memoirs of Yang Jiang, Lost in the Crowd (Melbourne 1989). He was an associate director and co-writer of the documentary film The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995). He is a research Professor in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University where he is also the editor of the journal East Asian History. Director,
Producer, and Cameraman Richard Gordon has been involved with
numerous projects in China as director of photography or producer. His
credits include work for National Geographic, the National Film Board
of Canada, NOVA, the independent feature documentary DISTANT
HARMONY: PAVAROTTI IN CHINA, and the PBS series CHINA IN REVOLUTION.
For his previous work, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986
and a Rockefeller Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship in 1988. |
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