Jia Zhao
Biography
Jia Zhao is a Chinese-Dutch film producer based in Amsterdam. She founded Muyi Film and Silk Road Film Salon in 2012. Coming from Asia and based in Europe, Jia skillfully matches resources from the East and West to nurture and mentor emerging voices and to bring authentic stories to the world in high cinematic quality. In 2021, A MARBLE TRAVELOGUE by Sean Wang was selected for IDFA Frontlight. Jia also co-produced I’M SO SORRY (co-producer) by Zhao Liang, a mind-blowing documentary about the effects of nuclear power. The film got selected for Cannes film festival and is currently being screened in cinemas across the Netherlands, receiving positive reviews all around.
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Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Narrator / Female Ghost
A cinematic and conceptually inventive film that explores the haunting memories of Asia’s late 20th-century modernization through the large-scale export of wigs during the Cold War. Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.