Zhou Hao

Zhou Hao, born in 1968, is a documentary director and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). He started his career as a journalist, spending over a decade as a photographer for China’s national news group Xinhua News Agency and Southern Weekly, the country’s most influential weekly newspaper. He began documentary filmmaking in 2001, and since then, his works have been selected and awarded over a hundred times at film festivals worldwide. His debut documentary Hou Jie Township (2001) won the Black Pottery Award (Best New Professional Award) at the Yunnan Multi-Culture Visual Festival. He went on to direct Senior Year (2005), which won the Humanitarian Award for Best Documentary at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2006, followed by Using (2008), which clinched the Asia Award at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival. Zhou Hao was invited as a jury member for the Chicago International Film Festival in 2007, the Taiwan International Documentary Festival in 2008, and the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival in 2009.