Lixin Fan is a Montreal

Montreal

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, Canada

Canada

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-based documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 director with the Canadian production company EyeSteelFilm

EyeSteelFilm

EyeSteelFilm is a Montreal-based Canadian cinema production company founded and co-owned by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin, dedicated to socially engaged cinema, bringing social and political change through cinematic expression...

 and previously a producer/journalist at China’s state broadcaster CCTV

China Central Television

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Lixin's debut feature documentary Last Train Home

Last Train Home (film)

Last Train Home is a 2009 documentary film directed by Lixin Fan and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of EyeSteelFilm. Last Train Home won the Best Documentary Feature at 2009 IDFA and will be distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the US territory.-Synopsis:Every spring, China's cities are...

won several awards. He also worked as associate producer on the acclaimed feature documentary Up the Yangtze

Up the Yangtze

Up the Yangtze is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of the film is the transition towards consumer capitalism from a farming,...

, and editor of To Live Is Better Than To Die about China’s AIDS

AIDS

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 crisis and was featured in Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

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 and was broadcast on BBC

BBC

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, CBC

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 and PBS.

Awards

• 2009: Won Best Feature Documentary at the 22nd annual International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) for his debut film Last Train Home
• 2009: Won Cinémathèque Québécoise Best Quebec film award at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal
  Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal
  Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal also known by the acronym RIDM is Montreal, Canada's international documentary film festival....
  
  (RIDM) also for Last Train Home

External links

• Last Train Home page on EyeSteelFilm website