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Sylvie Levey is a film director, who has been living and working in China for the past 10 years. She has directed a number of documentaries mainly focusing on social issues for France 2, France 3 and ARTE, among others. “High Crimes in Shanghai” (the portrait of three female prisoners sentenced to death) and “Colonel Jin Xing: A Unique Destiny” (the unbelievable story of the first transsexual in communist China) both won awards, and have been broadcasted in different languages all over the world. “Shanghai Waiting for Paradise” – her last 92 minutes story, filmed by herself over a 5 year period, portrays three generations under one roof in the city of Shanghai where the whole world will meet for the World Expo 2010, suddenly confronted by the imminent demolition of their home... Fluent in Chinese, Levey - who has been working in more than 20 different provinces of China, works without an interpreter to increase the intimacy and understanding she has with her subjects. Her experience abroad started with an early education in the USA, at Ridgecrest Burroughs High School (California). Then, she got a scholarship in Taiwan, at the Mandarin Daily News Language Center of Taipei. Returning to Paris, she graduated from LANGUES O, studying Chinese and Foreign Diplomacy. Started working as a journalist at AITV (France), she interviewed some main Asian actors of History: Benazir Bhutto, Rajiv Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Qian Qichen, Cory Aquino, Prince Sihanouk, and later on, Lian Zhan.. ). Then, for 2 years, she was hired by the News Foreign Department of the French public channel FRANCE 3. In addition, she went to several countries in the Far East (Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, and so on..) as a free-lance reporter. Today, as a film director, Levey dedicates her efforts in long term filming of documentaries in China, with her own camera. Levey is also a member of FCC (Foreign Correspondents Club in Shanghai), Asia Presse (France) & Front Line (UK).
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