Frant Gwo
Jury President of the 12th Tiantan Award
  Frant Gwo is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and producer.
  Since 2011, Frant Gwo has been directing feature films and has produced a large number of films that were huge box office hits and enjoyed good reputations. In 2014, he directed the film My Old Classmate and received an excellent reception from audiences. In the same year, the film won the Committee Special Award at the 21st Beijing College Student Film Festival.
  In 2019, The Wandering Earth, a science fiction movie, was released and achieved 4.686 billion RMB at the box office, earning it the reputation as the film that “opened the world to Chinese science fiction”. With this movie, Frant Gwo was awarded the Best Director Award at the 35th People’s Hundred Flowers Awards. In the same year, he also obtained the Outstanding Work Award of the 15th “Five-One Project” established by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, as well as the 32nd Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture, the Best Film Award at the 11th China Film Director’s Guild Awards, and Tiantan Award for Best Visual Effects at the 9th Beijing International Film Festival, along with many other big awards.
  His latest film, The Wandering Earth 2, is currently in progress.