Interview with TEDDY Jury member Popo Fan
Channel: TEDDY AWARD
Date: 2019-02-14

Hannah Congdon in conversation with TEDDY Jury member Popo Fan.

Born in 1985, Popo Fan is a Chinese queer filmmaker, activist and writer. In 2007, Fan published his first book on queer films before he graduated from Beijing Film Academy. From 2009 to 2016, he made a strong impact on Chinese society with a documentary trilogy focusing on LGBTQI* families in China. Fan won a lawsuit against the government after his film Mama Rainbow had been taken off the internet, a landmark event in fighting against state censorship in China. 
Fan has served as an organizer for the Beijing Queer Film Festival for more than a decade; he also founded the Queer University Video Training Camp in China. Currently he lives in Berlin developing his feature debut, at the same time writing for media such as Vice China. Among various achievements, Fan received the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival’s Prism Award in 2011 and participated in Berlinale Talents in 2017.

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