Wang Xiaoshuai, The Granta Podcast
Jan 30, 2025•44 min
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Episode description
In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the film director Wang Xiaoshuai, known for the films Beijing Bicycle (2001) and So Long, My Son (2019).
We discuss Wang Xiaoshuai’s thoughts on the porosity between literature and cinema, and the challenges facing independent filmmakers today.
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Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review.
Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta.
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