Dr.Yong ZHANG

NAME: Dr.Yong ZHANG

COMPANY: Colleague Of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University

PROFESSION: University teacher, Ph.D. Supervisor

CATEGORIES NOMINATED: FRIEND OF AFRICA AWARD.

CITY: Hangzhou

COUNTRY BASE: China

NATIONALITY: Chinese

PROFILE OR ACHIEVEMENTS:

浙大张勇个人主页https://person.zju.edu.cn/zhangyong0020114

Dr.ZHANG Yong, is a film doctor as well as documentary filmmaker. He graduated with a PhD degree from Beijing Film Academy in 2015, and focuses on African film research since 2012, has published over 20 papers in scholarly journals, his film works such as Africans in Yiwu(2017), TAZARA: An Journey Withour An End(2019), China-Africa Factory(2022), Chinese Meet Africa(2022) has been aired in CCTV and other channels. Now he is a research professor as well as Phd tutor in Zhejiang University, he organized the China-Africa Film and Television Cooperation Forum three times in China, Tanzania as well as Cameroon.

Relative interviews and reports:

Against All Odds: Bringing Multi-faceted China-Africa Stories to the Screenhttps://screenworlds.org/publications/against-all-odds-bringing-multi-faceted-china-africa-stories-to-the-screen/

“Documenting Life Inside a ‘China-Africa Factory’” Sixth Tone (2022)

https://nigeriabroad.com/documenting-life-inside-a–china-africa-factory-

New Documentary Portrays a More Nuanced View of the African Migrant Experience in Chinahttps://chinaglobalsouth.com/podcasts/podcast-africans-yiwu-china-documentary-film-zhang-yong/

Dr. Zhang Yong’s documentary reached Tanzania https://www.chinamaixin.com/cmicen/2021/0324/c35718a2270791/page.html

Zhang Yong’s films

Africans in Yiwu我从非洲来 (2017) https://www.iqiyi.com/a_19rrhcmp05.html?vfm=swwwds56

It is also available on YouTube.

Episode 1: https://youtu.be/YfU_M_x8_Fc

Episode 2: https://youtu.be/w1SVQSF0PCo

Episode 3: https://youtu.be/IWwShq_8s58