Zhang Yang, born in Beijing, graduated from the Director Department of the Central Academy of Drama, a China male director and screenwriter, and one of the sixth generation directors.
1997, Zhang Yang won the China 18 Golden Rooster Award for Best Director's First Film Award for his film debut "Spicy Love Soup" and was the best director of the 5th Beijing University Student Film Festival.
1999 won the "Best Director Silver Shell Award" at the 47th San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain for directing the film Bass. 200 1 The film "Yesterday" directed by the director won the Best Film "Golden Wing Award" at the 4th Bangkok International Film Festival? . In 2002, he starred in the movie Subway to Spring. In 2005, Zhang Yang won the Best Director Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival again for his film Sunflower. In 2007, the road film "Fallen Leaves Back to Roots" directed and written by the director won the Best Film Award (Panorama Unit) from independent film critics at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival. 20 10, Zhang Yang first tried the commercial genre film "Unmanned Driving".
On May 8th, 20 12, Zhang Yang's Youth Inspirations Film and Flying Over the Nursing Home were released for the elderly. 20 14, Zhang Yang directed the public welfare microfilm "The Voice in the Mountain".
Zhang Yang is good at describing and expressing the family life of ordinary people in movies.