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Nanfu Wang

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Nanfu Wang

Born January 1, 1985 in Jiangxi, China6 films

Nanfu Wang is an award-winning filmmaker based in New York City. Her feature documentary I Am Another You premiered at SXSW 2017 in the documentary feature competition. Her feature debut Hooligan Sparrow was shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award® for best documentary feature. After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2016, Hooligan Sparrow opened theatrically across North America and was later released on POV, Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes. It has won over twenty awards internationally including a Cinema Eye Honor, a George Polk Award, and the Truer than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. Wang was honored by the IDA with the 2016 Emerging Filmmaker Award.

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One Child Nation posterFirst watchOne Child Nation20197.2Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed…View film

Filmography

6 films as director
  1. 2024Night Is Not EternalDirector
  2. 2021In the Same BreathDirector
  3. 2019One Child NationDirector
  4. 2018Out of Many, OneDirector
  5. 2017I Am Another YouDirector
  6. 2016Hooligan SparrowDirector