The opening titles announce the film as a co-production between Jia's Xstream Pictures and the Shanghai Film Group, marking this as the Chinese iconoclast's first studio film in a career of independent productions. (slantmagazine.com)
Her first studio film, Roadside's Forever My Girl, is receiving a far larger distribution and is dramatically different in tone and structure from Little Chenier. (ff2media.com)
Following his 2012 in comp showing for Mud, his second comp film at the festival comes off the heals of his first studio film in Midnight Special (Berlin Film Fest). (ioncinema.com)