Jia was born in 1970 in the small, remote town of Fenyang in North China's Shanxi Province. At the age of 18, Jia was a painting student at a fine arts school in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi. He also developed an interest in fiction, writing his first novel "The Sun Huang On The Crotch" in 1991. Two years later, he was admitted to the Literature Department of the Beijing Film Academy to start his study on film theory.

In 1995 he founded the Youth Experimental Film Group, the first independent film production organization in China. He directed two feature videos with the group --, "Xiao Shan Going Home", which won the Gold Prize at the Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, and "Du Du."

Jia Zhangke's first feature was the 1997 acclaimed film "Xiao Wu" (Pickpocket), which he made the same year he graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.

 Jia Zhangke's Filmography

1997: Pickpocket (Xiao Wu)

2000: Platform (Zhan Tai)

2002: Unknown Pleasures (Ren Xiaoyao)

2004: The World (Shijie)

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