Weijun Chen

Weijun Chen (Chinese 陈为军; born November 30, 1969) is a Chinese documentary director, cinematographer, screenwriter and producer, now working for the Wuhan TV Station. He started his career in the film industry in 1994, known for his first documentary film To Live is Better Than to Die (2003), which won the Peabody Awards in 2003 and nominated for the World Documentary at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, Please Vote for Me (2007) was selected into Oscar documentary feature shortlist, it was purchased by over 100 TV Stations, including BBC and PBS. His recent work This is Life (2017) receives domestic attention. His films mainly focus on documentary realism, which reflects introspection of social reality.