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Chinese Director Jing Zou’s ‘A Girl Unknown’ Wins Critics’ Week Next Step Prize


Chinese Director Jing Zou’s ‘A Girl Unknown’ Wins Critics’ Week Next Step Prize

She comes from a literature background, but she found her calling when she began working at Shanghai International TV station on documentaries as a director and editor. To date, around 35 projects supported by Next Step have come to fruition including Universal Language by Matthew Rankin, which is in Directors’ Fortnight this year as well as Berlinale 2024 titles, Some Rain Must Fall by Qiu Yang and Arcadia by Yorgos Zois. The 10th edition also saw the launch of Next Step Volume II, a hybrid workshop which took place last September and brought directors and composers together to work on score composition as an integral part of a screenplay.

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