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   Personal life. Kingdon is the daughter of hedge fund manager Mark E. Kingdon and financier Anla Cheng, who is a member of the Committee of 100. [21] [22] Her father is Jewish and her mother is Chinese. [23] Kingdon is married to filmmaker Nathan Truesdell.

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   Oct 8, 2021 · “I was brainstorming different factories to shoot in,” explains Jessica Kingdon, director of the documentary Ascension, about China’s industrial supply chain. “I thought about how China ...

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   Mar 25, 2022 · The shot is one of many telling moments in “Ascension” — Jessica Kingdon’s documentary exploring class and labor in today’s China, which has emerged as a surprise Oscars contender. Shot in over 50 locations across China, “Ascension” is a sprawling yet often intimate portrait of a nation in transition. 00:30.

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   Jan 13, 2022 · After four years shooting her witty, eye-popping documentary about the Chinese economy, director Jessica Kingdon grabbed the last scenes in December 2019.

5. scienceandfilm.org › articles › 3403Director Interview: Jessica Kingdon's - Sloan Science & Film

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   Jun 16, 2021 · Director Interview: Jessica Kingdon's Ascension at Tribeca By Sonia Shechet Epstein | June 16, 2021 Making its world premiere in the documentary competition program at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, Jessica Kingdon’s debut feature ASCENSION is an engrossing, and at times funny, disturbing, and cautionary portrait of the Chinese industrial ...

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   Mar 8, 2022 · As Jessica Kingdon made eight trips to China to shoot her first feature “Ascension,” a meditational look at China’s factory life and consumer society, she didn’t imagine a large audience ...

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   Who is Jessica Kingdon?

   • Jessica Kingdon is a Chinese American director and producer. She was nominated for the 2022 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for directing the documentary Ascension. Kingdon received her BA from Columbia University in 2009 and her MA in media studies from The New School in 2014.

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   Why did Jessica Kingdon film 'Ascension'?

   • Jessica Kingdon's documentary doesn't take a side in its look at China's global impact. That's the secret to its success. As Jessica Kingdon made eight trips to China to shoot her first feature “ Ascension ,” a meditational look at China’s factory life and consumer society, she didn’t imagine a large audience for the result.

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   Is Jessica Kingdon's 'before' watermarked?

   • After four years shooting her witty, eye-popping documentary about the Chinese economy, director Jessica Kingdon grabbed the last scenes in December 2019. The result might as well have “Before” watermarked across the screen.

   Ascension — eye-popping portrait of China’s production and

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   Where did Jessica Kingdon grow up?

   • But as a child growing up in New York, Kingdon had little connection with her Chinese roots. Her grandparents fled the mainland in 1949 as the Kuomintang’s defeat in the Chinese Civil War became certain, eventually migrating to the U.S. via Japan. The family had lived in America ever since. Jessica Kingdon. Courtesy of Tomo Saito

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   Who is Jennifer Kingdon?

   • Kingdon received her BA from Columbia University in 2009 and her MA in media studies from The New School in 2014. She directed the 2017 documentary Commodity City, which focuses on the lives of Chinese wholesalers in Yiwu International Trade City, the world's largest wholesale market.

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   Who are Mark Kingdon's parents?

   • Kingdon is the daughter of hedge fund manager Mark E. Kingdon and financier Anla Cheng, who is a member of the Committee of 100. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Chinese. Kingdon is married to filmmaker Nathan Truesdell.

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8. variety.com › 2022 › film'Ascension' Review: Will Change the Way You Look at China

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   Mar 27, 2022 · Mar 27, 2022 3:11pm PT. ‘Ascension’ Review: Oscar-Nominated Doc Will Change the Way You Look at China. An instant classic, Jennifer Kingdon's remarkable essay film offers a window into a...