He Jian Jun is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.

He began his film career like many of his contemporaries at the Beijing Film Academy, China's premiere film school. Upon graduating in 1990, he began an apprenticeship with some of the Fifth Generation's major figures.

While Red Beads would win a FIPRESCI award at the 1993 International Film Festival Rotterdam, the film also caught the wrath of Chinese censors, who blacklisted He Jian Jun in 1994 along with several other prominent filmmakers.

Because of the blacklisting, He Jian Jun had to smuggle out his next film, Postman, for post-production.

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