Winner, Achievement in Cinematography, 2014
Black Coal, Thin Ice is Dong Jinsong’s third collaboration with director/writer Diao Yinan. In 2003 he shot Diao’s directorial debut Uniform and in 2007 Night Train which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes that year. In 2011 Dong was Director of Photography on Xiaoshuai Wang’s 11 Flowers, which was nominated for Best Children’s Feature Film in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and also for Cai Shangjun’s People Mountain People Sea which premiered In Competition at the 68th Venice Festival. Dong has filmed Wang Chao’s Looking for Rohmer.
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.
