木心

“木心”是孙璞的笔名，1927年生于中国乌镇。1946年，木心进入了上海美术专科学校就读并于1949年成为了杭州绘画研究社社长。从上世纪五十年代中页到八十年代初，木心秘密写下了二十本书，而这些书无一幸免都在文化大革命中被没收销毁。在此期间，木心三次入狱。在狱中，他偷偷完成了66篇密密麻麻的手稿，后被称为“监狱笔记”。1979年被释放之后，木心担任了上海市工艺美术协会秘书长。1982年，木心移居纽约并重新开始从事绘画和文学创作，总共完成了三十多部诗歌和散文集，被发表在了台海两岸。2001年，他人生的第一个艺术展在耶鲁大学艺术馆举办，随后在芝加哥大学大卫和阿尔弗雷德智能艺术博物馆、夏威夷的檀香山艺术学院和纽约的亚洲协会博物馆展出。2006年，木心回到了他的家乡乌镇定居，并持续在家写作绘画一直到2011年辞世。同年，他的第一本被翻译为英文的散文集“An Empty Room”在美国出版并获得了广泛的赞赏。木心逝世后出版的书籍在中国销售了数十万册，此外，木心美术馆也在2015年成立于乌镇。

陈丹青 被采访者

陈丹青, 出生于1953年8月的上海。画家，艺术评论家，学者。1969年中学毕业后，由于文化大革命的影响, 陈丹青被安插到了农村。在此期间他自学了绘画。1978年9月，陈丹青作为文革结束后的第一届研究生进入北京中央美术学院油画系学习。1980年, 陈丹青创作了西藏系列作品——《西藏组画》。毕业后至1982年，他留在中央美术学院执教。1982年,他离开北京，来到纽约继续学习。从1982年到2000年, 陈丹青作为一名自由艺术家在纽约生活。2000年1月,他接受了北京清华大学美术学院的邀请回国任教。2006年，陈丹青辞去了清华美院的工作，重新回归了艺术家的生活。作为一个艺术评论家和作家, 陈丹青曾出版过数十本小说和几本画册。现在他居住在北京。陈丹青,1953年8月出生于上海。画家，艺术评论家，学者。1969年中学毕业后，由于文化大革命的影响, 陈丹青被指派到了农村。在此期间他自学了绘画。1978年9月，陈丹青进入北京中央美术学院油画系学习。他是文革结束后的第一届研究生。1980年,陈丹青创作了西藏系列作品——《西藏组画》。毕业后至1982年，他留在中央美术学院任教。1982年,他离开北京到纽约继续学习。1982年到2000年, 陈丹青作为一名自由艺术家在纽约生活创作。

FRANCISCO BELLO, 联合导演 联合制片人 摄影师（纪录片素材）

Francisco Bello 是奥斯卡和三次艾美奖的提名候选人。他拍摄并制作了08年奥斯卡最佳纪录片，艾美奖提名影片《萨利姆爸爸》。Francisco制作并剪辑了2010年西南偏南电影节评委会特别奖获奖作品《War Don Don》。因为这部影片，他还被授予首届Karen Schmeer纪录片编辑奖及两届艾美奖提名。除此之外，他还剪辑了皮博迪奖获奖作品《鲜为人知的秘密》，美国电视影艺金鹰奖获奖作品《Code of the West》,以及Karen Schmeer奖获奖作品《我们的尼克松》。最近，他参与共同执导的纪录片 《梦想抵抗世界》 在2015年特柳赖德电影节、纽约亚洲学会、波士顿艺术博物馆以及中央美术学院放映。

TIM STERNBERG,  Co- Director, Co-Producer and Editor

Timothy Sternberg is the OSCAR® and EMMY® nominated co-director, co-producer and editor on “Dreaming Against the World”. He started his career working in the editing rooms of Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Studios in San Francisco while still in high school. After moving to New York, Tim has worked in positions as diverse as sound effects recorder on Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle and Robert Benton’s “The Human Stain”, re-editing the 1992 OSCAR® winning “Mediterraneo” for US release, script consultant for IFP and American Zoetrope, and music editing for Milos Forman’s “Goya’s Ghosts” and the OSCAR® winning “The Blood of Yingzhou District” directed by Ruby Yang. In 2008, his directorial debut “Salim Baba” was nominated for an OSCAR® for Best Short Documentary and played in over 100 festivals worldwide including Sundance, Telluride, IDFA Tribeca and Woodstock.  After airing on HBO, Canal+ and EBS (Korea), it received an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Culture Programming. With Francisco Bello he co-directed HBO’s”El Espiritu de Salsa”, which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. Under Supervising Editor Walter Murch he worked as an editor and music supervisor on Mark Levinson’s “Particle Fever” in 2013 and recently adapted Hanif Kureishi’s novella “Gabriel’s Gift” into a feature script as well as editing director Brendan Toller’s feature documentary “Danny Says” that premiered at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival.

SCOTT MOSIER, Executive Producer

Scott Mosier produced his first movie, “Clerks”, at age twenty-one with writer-director Kevin Smith. He went on to produce Smith’s “Mallrats”, “Chasing Amy”, “Dogma”, “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”, “Jersey Girl”, “Clerks II”, and “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”. Mosier also Co-Executive produced, with Smith, the Academy Award-winning film, “Good Will Hunting”, and was Executive Producer/Developer of “Clerks: The Animated Series” for ABC. He then moved into animation Producing and Co-writing the screenplay for the 3D Animated feature film, “Free Birds”, starring Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson. He is currently Producing a new 3D Animated version of The Grinch for Illumination Entertainment.
      Mosier also produces documentaries under his Occasional Giant Beard production banner including the Oscar® and Emmy® nominated “Salim Baba” and “Dreaming Against the World” with Francisco Bello and Tim Sternberg, “A Band Called Death,” the story of the greatest band no one ever knew, “Milius,” the story of legendary writer-director John Milius and “Best Kept Secret,” the story of a school in Newark that takes care of kids with severe autism. In his spare time, he is also the 'M' in SModcast - the popular podcast that he does with Kevin Smith which has hit over 15 million downloads.

FREDERICK L. GORDON,  Executive Producer

Frederick L. Gordon is a collector of Chinese modern and contemporary ink painting. When living in Shanghai in 2010,one year before Mu Xin passed away, he collaborated with the filmmakers Francisco Bello and Timothy Sternberg and artist Chen Danqing to produce “Dreaming Against the World". Gordon worked in finance in New York and San Francisco from 1969 - 2002 prior to moving to China.

JOANNE WANG, Associate Producer, Narrator

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