From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chen Shi-Zheng (born in 1963 in Changsha, Hunan, China) is a New York-based theater director. Having earned a BA from the Hunan Art School in Traditional Opera, he received his MA from the Tisch School of Art at New York University. In 2000, Chen was awarded the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Chen's directorial debut film, Dark Matter, was released in 2007, starring Liu Ye and Meryl Streep. This film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He also directed Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's operatic stage adaptation of Monkey: Journey to the West at the Manchester International Festival in June–July 2007. In 2008 he directed the premiere production of Stewart Wallace's opera The Bonesetter's Daughter at the San Francisco Opera. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shi-Zheng Chen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Changsha, Hunan, China
- Director and writer
- 3 on MovieCove · 7 credits in all
Where can I watch Shi-Zheng Chen's films?
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Filmography
7 credits, 3 with a MovieCove page.
John Adams: Nixon in China (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Yulu (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films
Dark Matter(2007)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
Three Times(2005)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
The Peony Pavilion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Opera Australia: Turandot (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)