Chen Sicheng and Dai Mo
Award-Winning Filmmaker
Best Director
Directors, Detective Chinatown 1900
Jury Citation
The jury presents Best Director to Chen Sicheng and Dai Mo to encourage their sustained work and breakthroughs in genre film. Building on the series' comic mystery tone, in Detective Chinatown 1900 they blend genre elements with humanistic concern. While keeping the market qualities of an industrial genre film, they use a more mature film language to depict the history of early Chinese immigrants on screen, continuing the series' genre fusion and innovation while surpassing their earlier work in the depth and breadth of their directing.
Detective Chinatown 1900: Synopsis
In 1900, in San Francisco's Chinatown, Ah Gui (Wang Baoqiang), a Chinese-Indian hunter, and Qin Fu (Liu Haoran), a young Chinese man studying in the United States, meet by chance over a murder case and stumble into forming the "Chinatown Detectives" duo, setting off on a comic crime-solving adventure...