The Filmmaker

From filmmaker Xiaolu Guo:

I hope the film will bring some intelligent discussions, not only interest in the Chinese landscape, but also the debate of making a film, the debate of showing a reality—a narrative force if you want. There are many layers in HOW IS YOUR FISH TODAY?, and they are worthy to be discussed and challenged as well by the audience.

Her three favorite films:

Breathless from Godard, Fear Eats the Soul from Fassbinder, San Soleil from Chris Marker

Her advice for aspiring filmmakers:

Make films with your own inner reason, not from a propaganda voice or a commercial voice.

Her most inspirational food for making independent film:

Good music, good novels. Good films and good vegetables and fish.

Bio

Xiaolu Guo
Director

Filmmaker and novelist Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 in a fishing village in south China. She started publishing poems when she was 14. Guo has published seven books and received an M.A. from Beijing Film Academy.

Guo’s first feature film, Love in the Internet Age, won China’s best screenwriter award in 1999. She wrote and directed The Concrete Revolution, which won Grand Prix at the 2005 International Human Rights Film Festival in Paris and Special Jury Prize at EBS International Documentary Festival in Seoul in 2005.

Guo's first English-translated novel, Village of Stone, was short-listed for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her most recent novel is A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, which was published in America and Europe in 2007.

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