Richard Gordon

Director, Producer, and Cameraman Richard Gordon has been involved with numerous projects in China as director of photography or producer. His credits include work for National Geographic, the National Film Board of Canada, NOVA, the independent feature documentary DISTANT HARMONY: PAVAROTTI IN CHINA, and the PBS series CHINA IN REVOLUTION. For his previous work, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986 and a Rockefeller Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship in 1988.

Filmography

	MORNING SUN » Few events of the twentieth century have so dramatically engulfed such a large proportion of humanity as China's "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"...
	LONG BOW TRILOGY » All 3 parts sold separately. These three documentary films (ALL UNDER HEAVEN, SMALL HAPPINESS and TO TASTE 100 HERBS) offer extraordinary portraits of Chinese life in the early 1980s...
	TO TASTE 100 HERBS » Dr Shen Fasheng discusses his Catholic religion, medical ethics, rural health services, centuries-old knowledge of herbal treatments and Western medical practices...
	ALL UNDER HEAVEN » Ancient traditions persist: we see an elaborate funeral, a country fair, a local animal market, an open air opera. But changes have come to Long Bow, with the shift from collective to individual farming...
	SMALL HAPPINESS » Despite the tremendous advances women in China have made, serious problems continue. Long Bow women talk about love, marriage, work, birth control, birth customs and the now outlawed custom of foot binding...
	GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE, THE » In April 1989, students occupied Tiananmen Square, using the occasion of the death of Communist Party reformer Hu Yaobang to protest against government corruption and to call for political reform...