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VIOLET DU FENG | DIRECTOR & PRODUCER. 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 ...
Feb 12, 2023 · On Thursday evening, the Columbia School of Journalism invited award-winning documentarian Violet Feng to show part of her new documentary Hidden Letters and offer her perspective on the issues covered in the film.
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.
- Dennis Harvey
Violet Feng is an Emmy, Peabody and Sundance award-winning filmmaker whose films capture nuanced and provocative stories.
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...
