Zhang Jun studied at University Paris 8 with a Masters in Directing. In 2004, she executive produced The Black and White Milk Cow, which won the Ecumenical Jury Award and the Don Quijote Prize of the International Federation of Film Societies at the 19th Fribough International Film Festival and the NETPAC Award at the 7th OSIAN-CINEFAN festival. Other projects include Motorcycle (2005), Er Dong (2008), queer documentary Comrade (2009), The Old Donkey (2010), which was awarded Best Film at the 7th China Independent Film Festival, and Don’t Expect Praises (2012), which played the Berlin and Tokyo international film festivals. As a director, she has made Sunshine in the Wheat Field (2015). In 2016, she produced A Yangtze River and was nominated for an APSA for Best Documentary Feature Film.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
