Growing up in Hunan, China and studying in both Shanghai and New York, Mijie is fluent in both Chinese and English. She is flexible, resourceful and a quick problem solver. She is also very open-minded and love to receive suggestions and constructive criticism. With significant experience identifying stories with international appeal and overcoming the obstacles between Chinese subjects and foreign filmmakers, She is both an effective researcher, local producer and creative contributor.
Mijie has worked with several Oscar and Emmy award-winning directors and producers as well as produced television series with BBC and CCTV, Tencent during her ten year long career. These production areas include feature-length documentaries, television documentaries, and commercials. She’s venturing her creative path towards narrative projects, using her strength of producing documentaries in the past to create narrative projects.
In 2019, she co-produced Julia Reichert’s《American Factory》(Best Documentary Film - Oscars winner 2020). It sold to Netflix and also showed in over 20 top festivals all over the world. As a director and editor, Mijie primarily makes observational documentaries. Her first feature film《Confucian Dream》has premiered at Hotdocs, won the “Special Jury Prize” at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which is one of the Top 15 A-level festival. Then she got the “Best Feature-Length Film” and “Best Global Impact China Documentary Award” at GZDOC, which is the biggest festival in Asia. As a field producer in China,《Ascension》was sold by MTV, and was shortlisted for the“Best Documentary Film at the 94th Academy Awards”.
In addition to creating documentary films, Mijie also serves as a Director and Producer for many brands and units, including but not limited to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Innovent Biologics, Lenovo China and Bu Kong Culture. She has participated in the production of various customized projects for Internet and TV stations, including but not limited to Tencent News《Dear Shop》, Youku《Great Shop》, TikTok《The Forgotten Time》, BBC《REGGIE IN CHINA》, and《Planet Finance》co-produced by Germany, France and Netherlands.
Mijie is not only a filmmaker but also a life practitioner. She started to practice meditation in 2011, and later studied various psychology, healing and inward self-exploration courses. She has crossed the bottom of her life and continues to move towards the transformation of her life. Her deep exploration as well as understanding human nature are implemented in her different types of films at different stages.
Primary skills: Research and casting Project develop and proposal writing Access negotiation (Chinese filming permits, factory access, etc.) . Self-shooting Location fixing and interviewing Translation and script writing Editing (AVID, Adobe Premiere).
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