Cao Baoping () is a Chinese TV and film director and screenwriter. He has emerged in recent years as a figure in China's "midrange" cinema industry. Some industry watchers, like ''

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, who have achieved major international and box-office success, and the more "underground" sixth generation directors, like

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Directorial career

Cao Baoping graduated from the

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in 1989, and spent most of the 1990s teaching

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at his alma mater. Cao would go on to expand into directing television and television films, co-directing the television film ''Absolute Emotion'' in 2001. His solo debut as director was 2006's '' Trouble Makers'', a satirical black comedy about a village taking revenge on a gang of hoodlums. Due to its rough content, ''Trouble Makers'' faced a host of problems from censors and spent six years in gestation before finally being released. The film premiered at the 2006 Shanghai International Film Festival, where it was called by ''Variety's'' Derek Elley as a standout entry. In 2008, Cao followed up ''Trouble Makers'' with '' The Equation of Love and Death'', starring

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. The film was well received and Cao would win a best new director award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival for his efforts.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

*
Cao Baoping
at the Chinese Movie Database

at Variety.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Cao, Baoping Film directors from Shanxi Beijing Film Academy alumni Living people Screenwriters from Shanxi People from Datong 1968 births