Cui Zi'en

Cui Zi'en (Chinese: 崔子恩; pinyin: Cuī Zǐ'ēn), born 1958, in Harbin in the People's Republic of China, is a film director, producer, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an outspoken LGBT activist based in Beijing. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with an MA in literature and now is an associate professor at the Film Research Institute of the Beijing Film Academy.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Cui.
Cui Zi'en
Born1958
Harbin, China
Alma materChinese Academy of Social Sciences
Occupation(s)Film producer
Film director
Years active1990s–present
AwardsRadio Literature Award
2001 Uncle's Past

(IGLHRC) International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Felipa Award

Cui Zi'en is one of the avant-garde DV makers in Chinese underground film. He has published nine novels in China and Hong Kong, one of which, Uncle's Past, won the 2001 Radio Literature Award in Germany. In the same year, he founded the Beijing Queer Film Festival, the first LGBT film festival in mainland China. He is also the author of books on criticism and theory, as well as a columnist for magazines.

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