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Jian Yi
Born
Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
Alma mater
Harvard Kennedy School (MPA, 2022)
Yale University (Yale World Fellow, 2009)
Beijing Broadcasting Institute, MA, 1999)
University of Notre Dame (MA, 1998)
Occupation
Director
Years active
2000s-present
Awards
Montreal World Film Festival Bronze Zenith Award, 2007 (Bamboo Shoots)
Barcelona Asian Film Festival Digital Cinema Award (Bamboo Shoots)
Cambridge Film Festival Official Selection, 2007 (Super, Girls!)
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival Official Selection, 2007 (Super, Girls!)
Documentary Fortnight, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009 (Super, Girls!)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
簡藝
Simplified Chinese
简艺
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Jiǎn Yì
Jian Yi (Chinese: 简艺; pinyin: jiǎn yì) is a Chinese independent filmmaker, social innovator and food activist who currently conducts research at the Harvard Law School. His films Bamboo Shoots and Super, Girls! won a number of international film festival awards. Jian Yi co-founded the ground-breaking China Villager Documentary Project with filmmaker Wu Wenguang in 2004, and founded the IFChina Original Studio in 2008. His works have been shown at numerous film festivals, museums (including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York) and university campuses across the globe. Jian Yi also spoke at the Apple Artists' Series among many public and media talks, including the BBC and the National Public Radio.
Since 2014, Jian Yi has been at the forefront of promoting sustainable food system in China. He founded and preside the Good Food Fund under the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation, one of the ten global Top Visionaries named by the Rockefeller Foundation for its 2050 Food Systems Vision Prize. He was frequently interviewed by international media for his views on China's food systems and appeared on Eating Animals, a documentary produced by Natalie Portman.
Jian Yi served on the Core Leadership Team of Action Track 2 of the United Nations Food Systems Summit between 2020 and 2021 and led the initial Workstream 1 on Food Environments. He has served on a number of roles related to this, including on several UNFSS action areas, FoodXFilm Festival, etc. Jian Yi also led his colleagues to set up the China Action Hub for UNFSS AT2, and organized 10+ independent dialogues on food systems in the first half of 2021, with a combined views of 1 million for their livestreams across platforms.
Jian Yi founded the China Vegan Society, which was officially launched in Dali, Yunnan, in May 2021, receiving supporting messages from celebrated figures such as Peter Singer, Dr. Jane Goodall, and Joaquin Phoenix.
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