Yue ZHANG

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Zhang Yue was born in 1977 in Jinan City, Shandong Province, PR China and studied at the Beijing Film Academy from 2005 to 2008, majoring in Film Directing and achieved the post-graduate diploma.
Relevant working experiences during the period of his studies at the Beijing Film Academy include Noodle by Ayelet Menahemi and Love At The Other Side of The World by Moacyr Goes as a translator and also Mongol by Sergei Bodrov, officially selected in the Best Foreign Language Film section of the 80th Academy Awards, as production coordinator.
In 2007, his short film Guodao (National Highway) was officially selected by the 64th Venice Film Festival Shorts Competition and was screened at several European film festivals. Guodao was also officially invited by the 7th South Taiwan Film and Video Festival. In 2008, his short film Hexian (My Sonata) was invited by the 7th Yokohama Students Film Festival.
He is currently developing his first feature film project The Paralytics, the story of a 20-year-old boy who takes care of a dying, paralyzed old man. Every day the young boy witnesses the old man stepping nearer and nearer towards death as if the opportunity of his hope for life dwindles to nothing.
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