IN CONVERSATION – JIANJIE LIN DISCUSSES MAKING HIS DEBUT FEATURE WITH KELLY CAMPBELL

We are delighted that Chinese writer-director Jianjie Lin will take part in a conversation with Irish born actor, writer and director Kelly Campbell to open up about his journey in making his striking directorial debut feature, Brief History of a Family.

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Tickets: €5.00

Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard.

Jianjie Lin

After graduating with a BA in bioinformatics, Jianjie Lin turned to filmmaking and studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His short films A Visit (2015) and Gu (2017) screened successfully at international film festivals. Brief History of a Family (2024), his debut feature had its world premiere in Panorama Section at the Berlin International Film Festival 2024 and was presented in Official Competition at Sundance 2024.

Kelly Campbell

Irish born actor, writer and director Kelly Campbell was educated at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, receiving first-class degree honours in Theatre, History and English. She later attended The Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She also completed the Directors Series Course at the National Film and Television School, London. Kelly has had a successful career as an actress for the last twenty-five years, moving between film, television and theatre. She was the Bewley’s Café Theatre’s founding director, one of Ireland’s most successful venues for new writing, where she directed many productions. As a director, she wrote and co-directed the short film Quarantine, and made her solo short film directorial debut, An Encounter, an adaptation of the second story in James Joyce’s Dubliners, and a multi-award winning short film funded under Screen Ireland’s Focus Shorts scheme; it qualified for the 2023 Academy Awards and played over fifty film festivals worldwide. Kelly is currently in development with her first feature,and producing Emissary, a film by her brother and Turner Prize winner, Duncan Campbell.

This event takes place as part of the East Asian Film Festival 2025.