Gu Xiaogang was born in Fuyang, Hangzhou. While studying Costume Design and Marketing in university, he discovered filmmaking and started to be interested in documentaries. He has finished his first feature, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, which was shot during the four seasons over the course of two years. It will be the first film of his Scroll Painting Trilogy, “A Thousand Miles Along the Eastern Yangtze”.