Gan Xuewei

Chinese film director. Honorary director of the Chinese Filmmakers Association, a member of the Film Literature Society and an honorary member of the Chinese Film Directors Association. Gan joined the revolution in 1938 and went to Yan'an, where he studied at the first stage of the Drama Department of the Lu Xun Academy of Arts and stayed after graduation in 1939 as an assistant teacher in the acting class. In May 1942, he attended the Cultural and Art Symposium held in Yan'an and listened to Chairman Mao's speech. In the winter of the same year, he won the gold medal of the Lu Yi Creative Year. 1947, he directed the opera "Fire" performed by the Harbin Songjiang Provincial Literary and Industrial Troupe, which was commended by the Northeast Bureau. 1948, he became the editor and director of the Northeast Film Studio, when there were only eight directors in the base area. In 1949 Gan began work on the feature film Scenes from Inner Mongolia, which won the prize at the 1951 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and in 1954 he directed Shajiadian Grain Station, an adaptation of the novel Bronze Wall and Iron Wall by the famous writer Liu Qing. In the winter of 1955, he became the expert assistant and head of the teaching and research team of the film directing course taught by Soviet director B.G. Ivanov. In the summer of 1956, he became the first head teacher of the directing department, pioneering the teaching of film directing in China. In October 1957, he became the chief director a…