Xiao Wu
Jia capitalized on his success with "Xiao Wu" with a two internationally acclaimed independent features. The first, "Platform", was partially funded in 1998 through the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) of the Busan (Pusan) International Film Festival when Jia received the Hubert Bals Fund Award (HBF) for his project. (Ahn, Soo Jeong, "The Pusan Film Festival, South Korean Cinema and Globalization", 2012, 104-105). "Platform" was a three-hour epic about a provincial dance and music troupe transitioning from the 1970s to the early 1990s. The film has been called the masterpiece of the entire sixth generation movement.