My Secondhand Lover

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Synopsis

Two Shanghai newcomers enter a marriage of convenience to cash in on every perk they can find, only for fate to turn the tables on them.

Genre:

Romance, Comedy

Director:

Bei Kouli

Screenwriter:

Bei Kouli, Daila, Li Wanlin

Producer:

N/A

Production Company:

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About the Director

Studied at the Vancouver Film School in Shanghai and in the first creative writing class at Fudan University. Six years as a reality show director, with programs drawing hundreds of millions of views; five years in commercial production, winning a Golden Lion. Selected for Jia Zhangke's talent program, Jackie Chan's Project A program and Tan Chui Mui's screenwriting program; a short film was selected by the Golden Rooster, and has published several pieces of fiction. The original screenplay Half-Baked Family won the Most Commercially Promising Project Award at the 2024 Beijing International Film Festival project market and was selected for the 18th FIRST project market; it is now in the filing and pre-production stage.

About the Producer

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About the Screenwriter

Bei Kouli: born in the 1990s, graduated from the Department of Chinese at Shanghai University. Worked in reality shows and advertising creative production, approaching each project from the text and the characters, with subjects ranging from colorful ordinary people to celebrities. Later founded a company and leads a team in content creation, with experience in managing creative work. Studied the North American screenwriting curriculum at the Vancouver Film School in Shanghai under department head and script doctor Dean Burns, and fiction writing in the first creative writing class at Fudan University; records ideas in fiction and shapes stories in screenplays. Daila: born in the 1980s, from Shanghai, teaches in the screenwriting department of the Vancouver Film School. Li Wanlin: born in the 2000s, graduate student in screenwriting at the Shanghai Film Academy.