Kaili Blues (2015) is amazingly Wang Tainxing’s debut work as cinematographer. His attention to detail, storytelling and arresting images complement director Bi Gan’s fluid and poetic storytelling, including most prominently in one bold 40-minute travelling shot that lies at the film’s heart that rivals some of cinema’s finest and most famously audacious single takes. Since completing Kaili Blues, Wang shot From Where We’ve Fallen (2016) and directed the short film Kill The Fish (2015). Wang was awarded the Silver Award of the Beijing Film Academy Cinerent Film Festival.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
