RED WATER RED screening in Festival Cine//B’s “Diagonal Oriente” Programme: Wed, Nov 9th @ 9PM. Alameda 2, Santiago, Chile.

Qing Xie has won a PLATINUM REMI @ the 44th WorldFest – Houston Film Festival for her graduating production RED WATER RED. “I’m honored to be recognized in this way by the film festival that presented Ang Lee, David Lynch and The Coen Brothers with their very 1st awards. I’m also grateful to all those who gave so much to get the film finished so fantastically, and particularly so to my continuing co-conspirators and supporters who have stayed the distance and never lost faith,” Qing Xie said.

RED WATER RED screening in the WORLDFEST REMI AWARD WINNING SHORTS – 35mm Sat April 9, Sat April 16. Got us some precious metal! Find out what kind on the 18th…!

Just heard last night that Qing Xie’s RED WATER RED has been nominated for 3 Awards, including BEST SHORT FILM, BEST DIRECTOR @ the 44th WorldFest Housten, USA!

Seeing the world through the eyes of women! RED WATER RED Screening @ WOW Film Festival Thu 10th Mar @ 8.30pm – Dendy Opera Quays 9/2 Circular Quay Way, Sydney.

We’re stoked to say that the Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival has selected Qing Xie’s RED WATER RED to screen in the specially curated shorts programme SANS FRONTIÈRES (Sat 26 Feb @ 3pm, Tue 1 March @ 1.15pm – Palace 7). We’re also pretty damn excited that directing and producing team Qing Xie and Adam Driver will be attending as guests of the festival!

Melbourne-based director Qing Xie has been chosen by acclaimed auteur Hou Hsiao-Hsien for the 47th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Film Academy.

Selection to the Academy will see Qing Xie mentored by celebrated directors such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, as well as participate in 3 weeks of intensive master classes, meetings with global industry heavy-weights, and hands-on production and post training with a select group of emerging pan-Asian film talent.

“Having my work seen and supported in this way by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and the Academy he leads, is already a rare honour, but in combination with mentoring by 2010 Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, this truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, which I sincerely and passionately cherish” says director Qing Xie.

Qing Xie is the first Australian filmmaker to be selected to the Academy, and the only one to be invited this year from outside of Asia. Her selection was based on her award-winning graduating film ‘Red Water Red’, which has screened at 14 film festivals around the world since its in-competition debut at the 20th Stockholm International Film Festival in November 2009.

The Golden Horse Film Festival Film Academy accelerates the careers of 16 rising stars of Chinese language direction and cinematography, as well as contributing to the continuing renown of an Asian literate world cinema.

Leader of the Golden Horse Film Festival Film Academy, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is one of the most acclaimed directors of the past three decades.

He has won best film or best director awards at Venice, Berlin, Hawaii and Nantes Three Continents international film festivals, and is a six-time nominee for the Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm.

The 47th annual Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Film Academy runs 3–20 November, 2010, for more information see http://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/ui/index.php?&lang=en&switch_lang=1.

Swiss première: RED WATER RED screening @ Shnit International Short Film Festival 2010 (October 6-10)

“A young girl and her father take the idea of filial piety too far.” “Red Water Red” screening to New Mexico: 2010 Albuquerque Film Festival (25-29 August)

RED WATER RED has its Latin American Première  @ CINEFIESTA 2010 (Puerto Rico, 1-7 August)