Pengfei graduated in film at the Institut International de l’Image et du Son (Paris, France) and then returned to China in 2006 and worked as the assistant director of Tsai Ming Liang (Taiwan (PRC)). His debut feature Underground Fragrance premiered in 2015 Venice Days and was released theatrically in France in January 2016. The film won the Fedeora Best Film Prize at Venice Days and the Best Film prize at the 2015 Chicago International Festival’s New Director competition. The Taste of Rice Flower (2018) is Pengfei’s second feature and was also selected for Venice Days.
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.
