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Violet Du Feng is a documentary filmmaker and a 2018 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow. She produced DEAR MOTHER, I MEANT TO WRITE ABOUT DEATH, SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS, CONFUCIAN DREAM, MAINELAND, and PLEASE REMEMBER ME, which have won many awards including Doc Impact Hi5, Special Jury Awards at SXSW and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Dec 5, 2022 · The latest work to shine a light on the ancient language is Hidden Letters, a 2022 documentary by Shanghai-born, Emmy-winning independent filmmaker Violet Du Feng (冯都 Féng Dū).
Hidden Letters is a 2022 documentary film directed by Violet Du Feng. It follows the lives of two Millennial Chinese women who study Nüshu, a script used exclusively by women in Jiangyong County, Hunan province, to communicate and commiserate over Chinese patriarchy. The film premiered on 6 June 2022 at the Tribeca Festival.
Dec 8, 2022 · The director, Violet Du Feng, uses Nushu mostly as a cursory framing device for a broad portrait of gender relations in modern China, structured around the stories of two Nushu practitioners: a...
Violet Du Feng is the director and producer of Hidden Letters. She is one of the 2018 Sundance Non-fiction Producing Fellows. Feng produced Confucian Dream, which is to be world premiered at 2019 Hot Docs; she co-produced Our Time Machine, world premiering at 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
Violet Du Feng – Director, Producer Born in Shanghai and based in New York, Violet Du Feng is a celebrated documentarian. She began her career as a co-producer on the critically acclaimed 2007 film Nanking, which won a Sundance Special Jury Award, a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award.
Dec 30, 2022 · Violet Du Feng’s Oscar-shortlisted documentary finds modern resonances in a 'secret language' Chinese women used to communicate in more oppressive times.
