 Dan mainly focuses on politics and arts-related topics. From 2007-2001 he lived in China's capital Beijing, and was the web editor for The Beijinger and the China correspondent for New Matilda, an Australian online publication featuring news and analysis of current affairs. He is a regular contributor to RealTime, Australia's only free national arts magazine. His work has also appeared in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Diplomat, Inside Film, Screen Hub, Senses of Cinema, Meanjin, Metro Magazine, The Beijinger, Time Out Beijing and China Today. Born in Sydney, Australia, Dan currently resides in Melbourne, where he is completing a book and PhD thesis on China's independent documentary movement. Before coming to China Dan was the managing editor of the Australian Film Commission's Communications Branch. He also formerly taught Film Studies at the University of New South Wales and from 2003 to 2005 was the assistant editor of RealTime. All written content on this site is copyright Dan Edwards. Please contact the author for permission to reproduce any of this material. Feedback and comments are also welcome. Contact: dan.cinema@gmail.com | Check out my blog, Screening China, featuring news an commentary about China's independent film sector. Recent articles by Dan Edwards Visions of a Life Constrained, RealTime e-edition, November 22, 2011 A review of Granaz Moussavi's Iranian-Australian film My Tehran for Sale, and the sentence handed to actress Marzieh Vafamehr for her role in the film. Ghostly Tales from Our Northern Neighbours, RealTime 105, Oct-Nov 2011 A review of The Fourth Portrait by Taiwanese director Chung Mong-hong, and Eternity by Thai director Sivaroj Kongsakul, which both screened at the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival. A Nation Slipping Under the Sea, New Matilda, 28 Sep 2011 A look at Tom Zubrycki's new documentary The Hungry Tide, and its protrait of a nation suffering the effects of a warming planet. A Nation Slips Under the Waves, RealTime 105, Oct-Nov 2011 A look at The Hungry Tide, the new documentary by Tom Zubrycki, about the low-lying Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, which is slowly succumbing to rising tides. Beyond the TV Frame – Antenna International Documentary Festival, RealTime, 104, Aug-Sept 2011 Preview of the inaugural Antenna documentary festival, coming to Sydney's Chauvel Sydney in October 2011. Meet China's Other Dissidents, New Matilda, 28 July 2011 Ai Weiwei has resurfaced, but many activists, including activist Wang Lihong, remain in detention in China with little in the way of legal recourse. |