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.

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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

Tuning in to a Red Light Revolution, The Age, 26 April 2012
Profile of the Australian, Beijing-based filmmaker Sam Voutas, director of China's first "sex shop comedy" Red Light Revolution.

Moral Questions, Everyday Choices, RealTime e-edition, March 20 2012
A review of A Separation, the Oscar-winning drama from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi.

Iran: Cinematic Defiance From a Prison Home, RealTime 107, Feb-march 2012
A review of Jafar Panahi's This Is Not a Film, shot while the director was under house arrest in Tehran and recently released in Australia.

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.