AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL

Hυ Bo, writer and director was born in China in 1988 and graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2014 with a BFA degree in Directing. His short film Distant Father (2014) won the Best Director award at Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival, and Night Runner (2014) was selected by Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy. His debut feature An Elephant Sitting Still, which was then still in progress, was selected by the first International Film Festival Financing Forum in 2016. In the following year, Hu Bo participated in the FIRST Training Camp under the supervision of Béla Tarr, where he completed the short film Man in the Well. Hu Bo took his own life soon after finishing An Elephant Sitting Still.