Libbie D Cohn
Libbie D Cohn has lived and traveled in China since her infancy. She graduated from Yale University in 2012 with a degree in Political Science and is currently studying regenerative design and systems thinking at The Ecosa Institute in Prescott, Arizona.
Filmography
Bad As Me (currently in production)
The Retirement of Mr. and Mrs. Zhang (2013)
People’s Park (2012)
JP Sniadecki
JP Sniadecki was born on a goat farm in Michigan, grew up in the industrial rustbelt of Northern Indiana, and has lived and worked for several years in China. A filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University, he produces work at the intersection of cinema and ethnography. His films screen at festivals such as the Berlinale, the New York Film Festival, and Edinburgh International Film Festival, and have received several awards, including the Joris Ivens Award at Cinema du Reel for Chaiqian/Demolition (2008), a Jury Award at FICUNAM and Split Film Festival for Yumen (2013), as well as a Golden Leopard and a Special Jury Prize at the Locarno for Foreign Parts (2010), co-directed with Verena Paravel. His most recent documentary, People’s Park (2012) co-directed with Libbie D Cohn, won the Best Anthropological Film award at Festival dei Popoli and Best Cinematography award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and had its New York City premiere at New Directors/New Films. He is also founder of Emergent Visions, a film series that screens new independent cinema from China.
Filmography
Yumen (2013)
People’s Park (2012)
Foreign Parts (2010)
The Yellow Bank (2010)
Sichuan Triptych (2010)
Chaiqian / Demolition (2008)
Songhua (2007)
