Fan Popo: Independent filmmaker, Writer, Activist. Born in 1985, graduated from Beijing Film Academy. Published Happy Together: Complete Record of a Hundred Queer Films (Beifang Wenyi Press, 2007). Third Prize in the LGBT Research Paper Prize, Chi-Heng Foundation; Second Prize in the sina.com’s prize for online video. Participation in directing China Queer Film Festival Tour in over twenty major cities in China since 2008.
Documentary works include: Taipei: city of rainbow, New Beijing, New Marriage, Chinese Closet, Paper House, Be a Woman etc. In 2011, he was awarded the Prism Award of the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival for his work.
For Chinese parents, finding out that their kid is gay usually presents a major tragedy, with the big majority utterly unable to accept the homosexuality of their son or daughter. However, during recent years a fresh rainbow wind has been blowing over the Chinese mainland: a pioneer generation of Chinese parents has been stepping up and speaking out on their…